Factory compliant manufacturing in India has surged with new and unprecedented export orders in the current season. Chain stores and international brands like Walmart, GAP, American Egle, JC Penny, Target, Sears, Tommy, Nike, Abecombic & ...
Tags: Garment Exporters, Textile
At the initiative of Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman-AEPC, an Inter-Ministerial Workshop was organized under the Chairmanship of Shri Ajit Seth, IAS, Cabinet Secretary, Govt. of India. The meeting was attended by Secretary (Textiles), Finance ...
Chairman AEPC, Dr. A Sakthivel, has written to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, on the issue of high cotton yarn prices prevailing in domestic market for export manufacturing. Dr. Sakthivel, in his ...
Tags: Yarn Prices, Yarn, Textiles
A delegation of Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) will visit India and Sri Lanka in the second half of the current year for expanding sales in those markets. During the visit, TTF will hold promotional activities in two Indian cities ...
Tags: Textile
Three WRAP-certified factories in Bangladesh have been honored for their achievements in environmental protection and social compliance. Saiham Knit Composite Ltd., Fakir Apparels Ltd., and Aboni Knitwear were recognized at the first annual ...
Tags: WRAP-certified factories, environmental protection, social compliance
Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman, AEPC welcomed the announcement of Union Budget on the RMG garment industry. He thanked the Hon’ble Finance Minister in accepting the demand of the industry to restore the ‘zero excise duty ...
Tags: AEPC, Branded Apparels, RMG garment industry
“The Pakistan Government will apply for Least Developed Country (LDC) status, which it would get by 2014”, the Textiles Minister - Makhdoom Shahabuddin recently told the Pakistan National Assembly. This would mean that ...
Garments Exporters Association (GEA) has requested the Government to provide adequate fiscal relief for the garment sector of the textile industry to enable it to face increasing international competition. GEA has pointed out that garment ...
There will be a very healthy competition for attracting investment in the textile sector between the western Indian state of Gujarat and the central state of Madhya Pradesh (MP), according to an expert. “The Government of Gujarat ...
Tags: Gujarat, MP, investment, textile sector
The much awaited trade concession package from the European Union has finally come through for Pakistan, but with safeguards, which does not make the package attractive anymore, says a leader of a Pakistan apparel trade lobby group. ...
Tags: trade concession package, safeguards, concession, duty-free access
Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), a leading body of Indian apparel exporters, today proposed measures to hike garment exports by 100 percent in 3 years, and 10 percent in the current fiscal year. Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, on ...
Tags: AEPC, apparel exporter, garment exports
A Sakthivel, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), on RBI announcement of its Q2 review of monetary policy on 30th October 2012 wrote a letter to Finance Minister, Shri P Chidambaram. Dr Sakthivel in his letter stated that, ...
Tags: AEPC, Q2 review, garment exporters, interest rates
Registering a year-on-year rise of six percent,Sri Lanka exported apparels worth US$537 million to the US during the first quarter of the current year,a report by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce noted. However,Sri Lanka's overall garment ...
To avert occurrence of any unfortunate accident incidents like the one at Karachi's Baldia-based Ali Enterprise,which caused 300 workers to loose their lives,representatives of several labour and civil society organizations'in Pakistan ...
Tags: accident, Ali Enterprise, workers, garment workers
In a letter written to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister, Dr. A Sakthivel Chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), has requested Government to increase the share of domestic sourcing in FDI ...
Tags: textiles, garment, domestic sourcing, entire Textiles Industry