The 2013 DHL Export Barometer reveals the continuing hurdles of a strong Australian dollar and a plunging business outlook from the mining sector have impacted exporters’ profitability outlook but not their confidence. Exporter ...
Tags: Australian, Dollar, Service
Global research firm Gartner has released the findings from its ninth annual Supply Chain Top 25. The goal of the Supply Chain Top 25 research initiative is to raise awareness of the supply chain discipline and how it impacts business ...
Cotton Australia has welcomed the Queensland Government's announcement for new water licenses in north-west Queensland, which may pave the way for additional cotton-growing areas in the state. Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and ...
Tags: Cotton, Australia, Queensland, Textile
The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has urged the new incoming PML-N Government to formulate new policies to boost the country’s exports. A new policy designed by taking all stakeholders into confidence could boost the ...
The textile sector of Argentinean city of Oran has formalized a social enterprise contract with a union of industrial workers UOCRA to increase the production of work clothes by the apparel manufacturing firms based in the city. The UOCRA ...
Tags: Oran Apparel, Argentinean, Apparel
The five new petrochemical projects that started operations since start of the current Iranian calendar year on March 21, 2013, are expected to boost the country’s petrochemical revenues by US$ 2 billion, National Petrochemical ...
Tags: Petrochem Projects, Textile
Various textile associations in Pakistan are debating whether there is any need for continuation of a separate Ministry of Textile Industry or should it be merged with the Ministry of Commerce. The Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and ...
It is now widely known, the integration of Australian Viterra AgriProducts and Wool businesses into Landmark has been completed; and that Landmark has made the decision to exit the wool exporting business. This means the closure of ...
Tags: Wool Exporting, Landmark
Mr. M Rafeeque Ahmed, President, Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) while commenting on the expansion in the interest-subvention scheme including 6 tariff lines for textiles including made-ups and 101 tariff lines in case of ...
Tags: Aid Textiles, FIEO
ATA Scania 2010 Young Australian Truck Driver of the Year award winner Rick Lockwood. Students exploring potential careers can find detailed information on road transport jobs in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace ...
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Business cash flow has slowed this year, placing further strain on a range of industries already experiencing low confidence because of weak trading activity and high operating costs. Businesses are waiting nearly eight weeks to be paid ...
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Despite the increasing production cost and shift in orders by global apparel and textile buyers from China to other Asian countries, several global clothing and textile brands are still sourcing major portion of their clothing from China. ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel and Clothing
The judgment in the Twitter libel case between Lord McAlpine and Sally Bercow has been published, with the judge explaining fully his reasoning for finding against Bercow. The House of Commons' Speaker's wife Bercow had tweeted "Why is ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
ONLINE retail titan Amazon announced overnight that it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to more than 170 countries and territories and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries. The move steps up the offensive of Amazon ...
Tags: Amazon, Tablet, Sales Expansion
The creative flair and design talent of graduating students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) have won applause from the industry at the annual Knitwear Fashion Show held (22 May) ...