Garment orders from foreign buyers would decline by 30 percent owing to the turbulence prevailing in the country that is affecting the Bangladeshi garment industry, said Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association ...
AEPC organized its annual export award function 2013 for outstanding export performance for the year 2012-13, at apparel house, Gurgaon. Dr. K S Rao, Union Textiles Minister, came to deliver awards in presence of Smt. Zohra Chatterji, the ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, Textile
Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC has applauded Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister of Commerce & Industry for historic WTO Bali trade package. In a statement Chairman AEPC said, “Our countrymen, garment exporting community and the ...
Tags: India's Trade, trade package
Fashionistas across the pond could soon be paying less for genuine Made in the USA women's blue jeans. Los Angeles-based Hudson Clothing LLC received a ruling from the UK's customs and tax department exempting its women's blue jeans from a ...
Tags: Womens Jeans, Fat Tax
New York (NY) based investment firm Tau Investment Management Inc., has announced the commitment to raise US$ 1 billion to help Bangladesh and other garment-manufacturing nations in order to construct factories with better safety and ...
Tags: Tau Investment, investment, garment industry, raise money
As part of the 21st edition of the international textile and fashion fair, ‘Textile Salon 2013’, the government of the Russian city of Ivanovo conducted its first ever professional contest for tailors ‘Fashion Lab’, ...
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Inspections of all export-oriented Ready Made Garment (RMG) and knitwear factory buildings in Bangladesh will start from 22 November 2013. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) will assess the factory buildings that ...
Tags: Garment Factory, Apparel
The exports of garments from the island nation of Sri Lanka to its major export destinations of the EU and the US recorded a remarkable growth of 30.7 percent year-on-year and 32.2 percent year-on-year, respectively, in September 2013, ...
Tags: Garment Exports, apparel
Under the leadership of Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, a delegation of 30 garment exporters participated in the three day Australia International Sourcing Fair (AISF) at Melbourne. The Indian pavilion was inaugurated by the Counsel ...
Tags: Garment Exporters
The Mexican state of Aguascalientes would be getting a new textile and apparel technology center, which would facilitate the state’s textile sector and place it at a more predominant position in order to contribute towards the ...
Tags: Textile Technology
Chairman AEPC Dr. A Sakthivel has welcomed the exports growth of 13.47% for the month of October 2013. Speaking on the export growth Dr. A Sakthivel stated that, “ With the stabilization of rupee and structural changes in the ...
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Speakers at a certificate award ceremony emphasized ensuring workplace safety to regain the image of the country's ready-made garment (RMG) industry that has been tarnished following a series of tragic incidents recently. The programme ...
Tags: Garment Workers, Apparel
Reacting to the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy Statement 2013-14, Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, stated that, “The synergistic efforts of all the stakeholders including Govt. has resulted in the average export growth of ...
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The sunny picture of the Bangladesh readymade garments sector has changed and the industry is now at crossroads—the time to act is now and cost of inaction could be high, the World Bank has said in its ‘Bangladesh Development ...
Tags: Garment Industry, World Bank
AEPC held a Workshop of Expert Working Group on Content Development and Training Strategy for effective implementation of DISHA AEPC-CCC at c, Gurgaon. DISHA implementation on ground started from January 2012 and the phase I has been ...
Tags: Expert Working Group