India’s textile and garment exports registered an almost flat growth at $41.4 billion in 2014-15, against $40.8 billion in the previous fiscal, falling short of this year’s target of $45 billion, according to media reports. ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Textiles Exports
Producer of sewing machines, Usha International named Subhadra Chowrasiya the winner of the NIFT ‘Best Garment Construction Award’. “Usha felicitated Chowrasiya with an Usha Janome Dream Maker 120 sewing machine, a ...
Domino Printing Sciences has introduced a new ink for use in its range of G-Series thermal ink jet (TIJ) printers. The ethanol-based BK118 extends TIJ printing capabilities to code several materials such as glossy packaging, plastics, ...
Tags: Thermal Ink Jet, Primary Packaging
Bangladesh may emerge as an unlikely saviour for the Indian cotton sector that has been left reeling in the face of low Chinese imports. Indian cotton export is expected to fall to a six-year low as China continues to cut imports. According ...
Tags: Cotton Imports, Cotton
Meghalaya will soon have its own apparel and garment centre. Chief Minister Mukul Sangma recently laid the foundation stone of an apparel and garment centre to be set up under the North East Region Textiles Promotion Scheme, according to ...
Tags: Apparel, garment centre
India recorded the highest index score in consumer confidence in Asia-Pacific of 130, a one-point increase from the previous quarter and a level that has not been reached since 2011. Confidence in India has been on the rise for six ...
Tags: Nielsen Consumer, Textile
The Union Cabinet has given its approval to review of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy on investments by non-resident Indians (NRIs), persons of Indian origin (PIOs) and overseas citizens of India (OCIs), according to an official ...
Tags: FDI Policy, Union Cabinet
USDA said it has initially projected the 2015/16 global cotton crop at 111.3 million bales, 7 per cent or 8 million bales below the 2014/15 estimate. In a report, USDA said area reductions in many countries are expected to account for ...
Tags: Cotton Crop, cotton
India’s largest bank, State Bank of India is aggressively trying to grab a piece of the business in the digital commerce space and has tied up with three major e-commerce players in the last two days. On May 21, SBI signed two ...
Tags: State Bank of India, E-Commerce
“The booming Indian retail sector will need around 56 million workforce by 2022,” says a report from the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). “The sector will also have one of the highest incremental human ...
Arvind Brands and Retail Ltd, the Indian partner of the US-based fashion retailer Calvin Klein Inc, has picked Parag Dani to head the latter’s business in India, according to media reports. Prior to this appointment, Dani ...
Tags: Arvind Brands, fashion retailer
Reliance Retail, part of Reliance Industries, plans to launch multi-channel shopping across all its formats to tap the fast growing e-commerce segment, according to media reports. The company, which operates its business under five ...
Leading industry body, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) expects the retail market in India will touch $1.2 trillion by 2020 and $2.1 trillion by 2025 from the present level of $550 billion, generating 10-12 million jobs in the next ...
Tags: retail market, Apparel
“Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) is the default mall capital of India, since it has nearly a hundred malls, with best performing malls in the region enjoying a low average vacancy of around 10 per cent,” a top official of ...
Tags: performing malls, NCR
In a move to bring top talent back to India, Snapdeal, one of India’s largest online marketplace, has announced the appointment of Gaurav Gupta as vice president – engineering. In his new role, Gupta will spearhead the ...
Tags: Snapdeal Beefs, Beefs