Gone are those days when fashion designers and apparel retailers, along with the media, used to set the market trends for clothing. With the advent of internet, apparel retailing, especially e-commerce, is mainly driven by the consumers. ...
Tags: Consumers, Clothing Trends, E-Commerce
The textile sector is one of the oldest industries on the planet and it is growing rapidly to meet the needs of people of all ages. Presently, the biggest challenge faced by the textile industry is sustainability and some industry ...
Tags: Sustainability, Textile Makers
Ghana’s textile industry is facing a threat of collapse due to the problem of pirated textiles entering the country. Nana Akrasi Sarpong, Head of Public Relations at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said if the menace is left ...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina has urged Brazil to increase its imports of readymade garments and jute products from the country. The request was made during a recent visit of the newly appointed Brazilian Ambassador Wanja ...
Tags: Garment Imports, Prime Minister
Panamanian market is the ideal destination for the development of Peru's non-traditional exports, including textiles and garments, Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva Velarde-Alvarez, has said. Speaking at ...
Tags: Peruvian Textiles
Technological upgradation has become the most important factor in the textile value chain for textile and clothing producers to face the global structural changes taking place in the industry. The new and innovative technologies, especially ...
Grafica Flextronica, manufacturer and exporter of screen printing machines and allied products for textile, graphics and industrial printing sectors, is launching the nano-prinTag, world's fastest and first all electrical-mechanical ...
Net sales for the 2013 second quarter were $26.1 million compared to $17.6 million in the second quarter of 2012. Income from continuing operations before income taxes was $2.9 million compared to a loss of $2.8 million for the prior year. ...
Tags: Hampshire Group, Apparel
Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BoI) has announced that about N56.48 billion of the N100 billion Cotton, Textiles and Garmenting (CTG) Revival Fund allocated by the Federal Government has been distributed till date. This was ...
Tags: Cotton, Textiles, Garmenting
The date August 16, 2013 will mark the 36th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. From dressing up and performing as Elvis impersonators to holding candlelight vigils at Graceland, his former home and final ...
Tags: Doll Clothes, Elvis Presley
Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, has expressed optimism on the growth of exports. Exports for the Month of July 2013 have grown by 11.64 % compared to the same period last year. Chairman AEPC has welcomed the growth in the RMG and Textiles ...
Tags: Chairman AEPC, Apparel Exports
A retrospective exhibit tour into the narrow and busy lanes of New York’s once-thriving fashion design and manufacturing hub Garment District is going on at Manhattan’s Skyscraper Museum. Titled as ‘Urban Fabric: ...
Tags: Skyscraper, Garment District
Over the years, clothing has changed its characteristics from a costume to a medium of expression or an extension of technology mainly due to the influence of fashion and the advancement of technology. As a result people are looking for ...
Tags: Futuristic Apparels
There is no differentiation in the textile and garment products made by Belarusian enterprises for selling in the domestic market and those meant for exports, an official from the Bellegprom Group, consisting of 109 companies engaged in ...
Tags: Textiles, garment products
The penetration of Internet has rapidly increased the competition in apparel retailing as it creates a platform for the consumers to browse for their favorite wardrobes from anywhere in the world. In order to compete with the rising ...
Tags: Apparel Retailing