“Sustainability is inherent in our culture here in Sri Lanka, as we are an island with scarce resources so we do our best to conserve these”, says the top honcho of a Sri Lanka Group with interests spread across textiles, ...
Tags: textile industry, Apparel
Lotte Liqor’s first beer, Kloud, burst onto the market with aplomb. “We expect to bring a change in the history of Korea’s beer industry, often reputed as ‘boring,’ with this kind of real beer,” the ...
Tags: Beer Market, Krones, Packaging
Australia is experiencing record rural exports, more opportunities from China’s urbanisation, and global supply chains are having an effect on Australia’s export profile, according to the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation ...
Tags: Australia, Rural Exports, Service
Weidenhammer Packaging, headquartered in Hockenheim, Germany, is one of Europe’s leading providers of composite cans, drums and luxury tubes with around £1,100 employees and operates numerous production facilities across Europe. ...
Bangladesh-based denim fabric producer Envoy Textiles Ltd. is planning to set up a yarn spinning unit, 80 percent of which will be used for internal consumption, with the rest to be sold in the open market. The spinning unit, to be set up ...
Tags: Envoy Textiles, Yarn Spinning Unit, Textile
The Export Finance and Insurance Corporation’s (EFIC) Export Monitor newsletter considers the outlook for exports to Asia beyond commodities. "Tourism and education exports will continue their rapid expansion, driven by especially ...
REI promoted Eric Artz, chief financial officer, to the additional role of chief operating officer, and Susan Viscon, vice president of merchandising, to senior vice president of merchandising. Artz and Viscon are part of the company's ...
Tags: REI, COO and SVP, Sporting Goods
The surgeA transient variation in the current and/or potential at a point in the circuit. in the U.S. trade deficit in manufactures in the second quarter of 2014 and the increase in the Chinese trade surplus shows the countries have resumed ...
Tags: US, China, Electrical
Australian SME businesses active in India can look forward to greater support in their overseas activities, following a new agreement between Australia’s export credit agency EFIC and the State Bank of India. The agreement will make ...
The apex bank of Bangladesh has extended its refinancing scheme of easy loans to the garment sector for improving safety standards in garment production units. This loan upto Taka 10 million, which can be borrowed from commercial banks or ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Safety, Apparel
Australian vegetable and potato growers’ representative body AusVeg has called for Australia to follow the UK’s lead and put in place a plan to source government-procured food from local suppliers and producers. UK Prime ...
Tags: Australian, AusVeg, Food
Australian exporters are feeling positive, with 95 per cent of SME exporters expecting their overseas sales to remain the same or grow in the next 12 months, according to new research released by EFIC (Export Finance and Insurance ...
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has entered into ...
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A Pakistan cotton ginners trade body has demanded that cotton farmers be assured a government support price to stop their exploitation by textile mills. At a press conference, office bearers of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association ...
Tags: Support Price, Body, Textile
A Pakistan cotton ginners trade body has demanded that cotton farmers be assured a government support price to stop their exploitation by textile mills. At a press conference, office bearers of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association ...
Tags: Body, support price, Textile