As per the latest report of the USDA, global 2014/15 cotton production is projected at 119.2 million bales, 1 per cent below last season. China and India account for half of the world crop, each contributing an estimated 30 million ...
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India and Canada have signed two different memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for skill development in the apparel sector, the apex apparel exporters body, Apparel Export Promotion Council, (AEPC) said in a statement today. The ...
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Italian fashion retailer Benetton said it has contributed an additional $1.1 million to the Rana Plaza Trust Fund, doubling the sum recommended in an independent assessment of its contribution by PwC. “This payment of $1.1 ...
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Swiss-based Santex Group in order to improve its local sales organisation in India in the segment of technical textiles; has named Jude Britto as head of sales - technical textiles and emerging technologies. Britto has been associated ...
Tags: Technical Textile Sales, Santex India, technical textiles
After four days, EFE 2015 closed its doors with a positive outcome on Saturday, 7 March 2015. More than 8,300 visitors from 128 countries came to the EFE exhibition grounds.The Fair attracted trade visitors with more than 44% of it were ...
Industrial company Metso will be delivering about one thousand valves for Stora Enso's consumer board machine project in Guangxi, China. The consumer board machine is part of Stora Enso's integrated mill project in China that the company ...
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The 11th annual China (Shenzhen) International Culture Industries Fair (ICIF) will be held in Shenzhen of South China's Guangdong province during May 14-18, 2015. The cultural fair this year will especially set up the Silk Road Hall ...
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Even as most players in India’s e-commerce space are struggling to break-even, a recent report has estimated that the industry may turn profitable at an operating level by around 2020. According to UBS Securities, the Indian ...
Walmart India has appointed Pankaj More as Head Technology. In his new role, More will be the key person for strengthening the company’s technology and IT infrastructure, according to media reports. More has more than ...
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Vietnamese lingerie maker Anh Khoa Production and Trading Company will be importing materials from India. Anh Khoa has recently signed a memorandum of understanding for importing materials from members of the Indian Synthetic and ...
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The pace of growth in the global chocolate market slowed in 2014 as the industry faced challenges stemming from increased cocoa prices, according to findings from market research organisation Mintel. However, chocolate innovation ...
The Saurer Group, a leading textile industry group specialising in machinery and components for yarn processing, has appointed Stefan Kross, the as the new delegate of the Board of Directors. Stefan Kross, a long term textile senior ...
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The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), stood at minus 2.33 per cent for March 2015 (over March 2014), according to the provisional data released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of ...
Mills in Southern India hope to use the facilities provided by the Mangalore Port to import and store raw cotton for consumption by small and medium sized mills. The congestion in various ports has prompted the Southern India ...
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A Pakistan parliamentary panel has recommended the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) to buy seed cotton instead of lint to protect cotton farmers as it was unable to fix the minimum cotton price. This was done in line with the ...