Two years after global garment brands and retailers and two global unions and their national readymade garments (RMG) affiliates signed an unprecedented agreement to make garment factories safe in Bangladesh, all 1500-plus factories covered ...
Tags: Garment Industry, garment brands
Small brands with turnovers of Rs 10 crore to Rs 25 crore and mid brands with turnovers of Rs 25 crore to Rs 100 crore were affected by low sentiments, reveals the Clothing Manufacturers’ Association of India (CMAI’s) Apparel ...
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Italian fashion retailer Benetton said it has contributed an additional $1.1 million to the Rana Plaza Trust Fund, doubling the sum recommended in an independent assessment of its contribution by PwC. “This payment of $1.1 ...
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Vietnamese lingerie maker Anh Khoa Production and Trading Company will be importing materials from India. Anh Khoa has recently signed a memorandum of understanding for importing materials from members of the Indian Synthetic and ...
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China's textile and garment industry to explore the transition to 2015 performance expectations.Restructuring of the industry surging, mergers and acquisitions endless: This year cross / number of mergers and acquisitions in the industry ...
Tags: textile industry, garment industry
The second edition of Texworld Istanbul opened its doors yesterday and will continue till April 9, 2015 with 112 exhibitors from 12 countries exhibiting at the show. It has returning exhibitors from Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong ...
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While two more textile export bodies have criticised the Foreign Trade Policy, a shoes and apparel major has welcomed it. Over the last week, several textile trade bodies have slammed the new policy for ignoring their concerns. Apparel ...
Tags: AEPC, Negative Reactions, Apparel
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded that German apparel and footwear brands should promote workers’ rights in their global operations by publicly disclosing names of factories producing their products. “Supply chain ...
Considering that the Thailand textile sector begins from petrochemicals and extends to fashion and the Vietnam garment industry has to import 85 per cent of its raw material requirements, cooperation between the two countries could help ...
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A Swedish initiative has helped Indian apparel suppliers to Swedish brands like KappAhl, Indiska and Lindex, reduce environmental impact and improve capacity through training on resource efficiency. The Sustainable Water Resources (SWAR) ...
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At a seminar organised recently in Dhaka, experts recommended framing rules for making the Bangladesh textile industry environmental complaint due to the rise in demand for green products. The seminar titled ‘Legal and Regulatory ...
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Favourable government policies, low wages, shorter sea route and growing garment exports make Myanmar an attractive option for Indian textile entrepreneurs, says Rajesh Kumar Shah The garment sector in Myanmar has grown enormously since ...
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The exports of textiles and apparel from Philippines crossed US$ 2 billion mark last year, according to the data from the industry and trade statistics department, under the Philippine Statistics Authority. Philippines earned US$ ...
Tags: Textile, Garment Exports
The readymade garment industry in Bangladesh needs support in information and communications technology (ICT) in order to make its vision of reaching US$ 50 billion-mark in exports by 2021, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers ...
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Inatex, the 13th Indonesia International Creative Textile Apparel Accessories Exhibition, and Indo Intertex, the Indonesia International Textile and Garment Machinery & Accessories Exhibition, will take place from 23-25 April 2015, at ...
Tags: Inatex, Indo Intertex, Garment Machinery