HE Spring Festival holiday last week did not upset plans for the East China Fair which will open tomorrow as originally scheduled, although some small firms decided not to attend, the fair organizers said yesterday. The fair, the ...
Tags: Economy, East China Fair
The yet to be finalised free trade agreement (FTA) with Turkey will increase textile exports from Pakistan, commerce minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has said. In a statement, the minister said the government would hold extensive ...
Tags: Textile Exports, Textile
Total apparel imports by the United States stood at $81.780 billion in 2014, showing an increase of 2.49 per cent over imports of $79.797 billion made in 2013, according to the latest Major Shippers Report, released by the US Department of ...
Tags: Apparel Imports, Apparel
Irrespective of the fine print in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, expected to be signed this year, Vietnam’s apparel industry is likely to benefit at the expense of its South Asian competitors like Bangladesh and Sri ...
Tags: Apparel Industry, Apparel
Global Textile Technology & Engineering Show-2015 (GTTES 2015), organised by India ITME Society, created a landmark event for textile engineering industry in India and overseas. The event which focused on post spinning sectors attracted ...
Canada-based International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) have announced to support three new projects to improve food security in developing countries. Supported by the ...
Tags: food security solutions, fruits, mangos, Agriculture
Indian apparel exporter, ID Overseas has inked an exclusive licensing agreement with US based workwear brand Williamson-Dickie to explore the growing basic workwear market in the Indian sub continent. According to ID Overseas CEO Ravi ...
Tags: workwear brand, energy, healthcare, Apparel
Textile engineering expo, GTTES-2015 which was held in Mumbai from January 20-22 on an area of 11,500 sq metres, saw over 282 Indian and foreign exhibitors, with a majority of foreign ones coming from China. Ambassadors and consul ...
Led by a pick-up in growth in India, which accounts for about 70 per cent of regional output, South Asia’s economic growth is set to reach a four-year high in 2015, according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and ...
Tags: nuclear agreement, Textile
Global supplier of apparel labeling solutions ITL Group (ITL) said it has inked a joint venture with Codes and Labels Ltd, a privately owned Bangladesh supplier of labels, packaging and trims. Under the terms of the agreement, the Codes ...
Sika has reported record sales in every region and also says that all relevant growth targets for full-year 2014 have been exceeded. An above-average increase in net profit is expected for the business year 2014. In the fourth quarter of ...
Tags: emerging markets, Construction
Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC), India’s largest vocational apparel training network in partnership with Sri Lanka Institute of Textile and Apparel (SLITA) inaugurated its first international training workshop on ‘Lean ...
Tags: specialized skills, apparel sector, Apparel
Under its Training of Trainers (TOT) programme, the Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC) is organising a first-of-its-kind advanced workshop on ‘Lean Manufacturing Practices and Implementation’ by experts from Sri Lanka ...
Tags: lean enterprise, financial aspects, value engineering, Apparel
India is likely to open its first packaging park, which will be a cluster of industries specialising in making a wide variety of packaging material for user units, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The Indian Institute of Packaging, an ...
Sri Lankan apparel sector trade body, Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) has shortlisted key logistics service providers who have played a major role in import and export areas of the apparel sector. JAAF has recognized them as ...
Tags: apparel sector, apparel import