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
Kolkata based Dollar Industries has launched a new range of stylish gym vests, Bigboss Gym vest woven from 100 per cent combed cotton. According to a Dollar Industries press release, the gym vest has illustrative features such as super ...
The new Foreign Trade Policy has come under fire from two major textile trade bodies. The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry or CITI says the new policy has not provided any additional benefits to the textiles sector, though measures ...
Indian online fashion retailer Saiesta.com has created a new collection of digitally printed, soft, smooth flowing, reversible scarves, inspired by multiple cultures across the world. Made using viscose georgette fabrics, the colourful ...
Tags: multiple cultures, The one-stop, Apparel
The Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with that country to arrest falling knitwear exports. Modi’s visit to Canada begins ...
Tags: General Preferential Tariff, Tirupur Exporters'Association, Apparel
Exporters from select labour intensive sectors will be able to access cheaper credit soon as the government prepares to reintroduce an interest subvention scheme in the next couple of months, according to media reports. “The ...
Tags: select labour intensive sectors, interest subvention scheme, Textile
'One Belt, One Road' initiatives offer hope to firms like Zoomlion amid stagnant sales in domestic market, reports Xu Wei. Plans by China's leaders to revive ancient intercontinental land routes and develop maritime links are being seen ...
Tags: Heavy Equipment, heavy machinery
Hosiery products marketer, Dollar Industries has launched a new range of leggings, Dollar Missy Leggings, which is available in multiple colours. Dollar which has been catering to women with an extensive range of camisoles and panties has ...
Tags: Hosiery products marketer, Leggings, Apparel
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been impacted by the US imposing an average 19.5% anti-dumping tariffs rate. But rooftop PV systems, especially those built with high-efficiency cells, will provide market ...
Tags: PV, solar cell, Lighting
Outdoor Industry Association joined more than a dozen industry executives from the Pacific Northwest and several members of the Washington State Congressional delegation this past Monday for a roundtable conversation with U.S. Secretary of ...
Tags: Interior Secretary, Sporting Goods
Cotton exports from India are expected to fall 41 per cent over 2013-14 to a five-year low of 7 million bales (1 bale=170 kg) in the 2014-15 season, which is also down from 9 million bales forecast last October. Speaking to reporters, ...
Tags: Textile, CAB, Indian Cotton
The food imports in UAE would see an increase of up to $400bn in the coming ten years, compared to $100bn reported in 2014, said UAE Minister of Economy Sultan Al Mansouri. The country currently exports 85% of its food and is planning to ...
IRL has announced the launch of a new edition of its single country report A Profile of the Chinese Paint Industry. In this study, IRL examines China’s paints and coatings market independently and not as part of a regional study on ...
Tags: paints, coatings, powder coating
The Sri Lankan apparel export sector received a shot in the arm, with Sweden, one of the countries in the world with the highest per capita income, extending its support to the industry. This was conveyed to Rishad Bathiudeen, minister of ...
Tags: apparel export, Lanka products
Marine logistics company Oricon Enterprises (OEL), a flagship company of Parijat Enterprises, will be acquiring 70% stake in India-based Oriental Containers for $16.77m (INR105cr). OEL will buy the company from its Mauritius-based joint ...
Tags: OEL, water closures, Packaging