The largest ever vertical roller mill in Bangladesh s cement industry, owned by Bashundhara Group (BG), was inaugurated on Monday 12 November 2012 at a ceremony in Khulna. Mayor of Khulna, Talukdar Abdul Khaleque, along with managing ...
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This will sound like music to the ears of cotton importing countries like China, Bangladesh or Vietnam and also to exporters of the white gold from India. Leaders from opposing Indian lobbies – both the raw cotton and the ...
Tags: white gold, cotton, textile, raw cotton, Cotton Exports
Marks&Spencer(M&S)gives an update on Plan A,its 180 commitment eco and ethical programme that aims to make M&S the world's most sustainable major retailer by 2015. Richard Gillies,Director of Plan A at M&S,says:"We continue to engage our ...
Tags: Marks&Spencer, eco and ethical programme, sustainable living
Through the participation at the upcoming Australia International Sourcing Fair (AISF) 2012, the Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Council of Fiji is planning to make further headway in the global apparel and fashion industry. ...
Tags: AISF, Textile, Clothing, Footwear, apparel, fashion industry
Expecting comparatively lower sales during the approaching holiday season, US retailers have imported lesser quantity of textiles during the month of September 2012. The overall US textile and garment imports declined by 1.3 percent ...
Tags: OTEXA, garment import, textile import
Bangladesh, counted among the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) of the world, has overtaken Pakistan in textile weaving capacity. During 2006-11, Bangladesh added 2.830 million spindles and 21,850 shuttleless looms in the textile ...
Tesco announced the launch an Apparel Skills Foundation to support the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry.The Skills Foundation's objective is to equip the industry with training,expertise and tools to improve productivity while ...
Tags: Tesco, Apparel Skills Foundation, ready-made garment, DFID
Global apparel buying firms are exploring alternative destinations to source their garments,owing to rising cost of production in China,and Bangladesh has emerged as priority for these companies to source apparels. After convening a ...
Tags: rising cost, Source Apparels, Global Buyers Prioritize, BGMEA
Nine firms signed up for International Cotton Association Ltd (ICA) membership in November - including six agents. • Aklo Tarim AS, Turkey • Asian Cotton Traders Pte Ltd, Singapore • Elonbur ...
Tags: cotton, raw cotton, ICA, the International Cotton Association
In its effort to explore new apparel export destinations,Bangladesh would participate in the"Asian International Apparel Sourcing Show 2012"slated to kick off at Sands Expo and Convention Centre,Marina Bay Sands,Singapore,from December ...
Tags: apparel export, Asian International Apparel Sourcing Show, BGBA, BGFFMEA
To avert occurrence of any unfortunate accident incidents like the one at Karachi's Baldia-based Ali Enterprise,which caused 300 workers to loose their lives,representatives of several labour and civil society organizations'in Pakistan ...
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Pakistani textile exporters can benefit by increasing their value-added exports to Japan, which requires them to enhance their knowledge about Japanese standards, which are different from norms followed in other industrialized countries, ...
Tags: JICA, QTEC, TDAP, textile, raw materials
The US election result has evoked a mixed reaction from the South Asian textile and apparel exporters. While, most of the textile and garment exporters in the region have welcomed the victory of Mr. Barack Obama, Pakistani exporters ...
Tags: textile exporter, apparel exporter, textile, EAB, RMG, FNCCI
The readymade garments(RMG)industry,the main export revenue earner for Bangladesh has been excluded by the US Department of Labor from the list of the sectors suspected of producing goods with child labor. The 11th edition of the ...
Tags: RMG, child labor, leather, footwear
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association's(BGMEA)University of Fashion&Technology(BUFT)and United Nations Industrial Development Organization(UNIDO)-Better Work in Textiles and Garments(BWTG)jointly organized a ...