India’s cumulative readymade garment exports in April-May 2015-16 were to the tune of $3.012 billion, showing an increase of 7 per cent compared to the exports of $2.814 billion in the same period of previous financial year, the ...
Tags: apparel and clothing, garment manufacture, garment exports
Textiles minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar has said that given its employment and export intensity, the apparel industry plays a significant role in realizing the vision of ‘Make in India’, according to an official statement. His ...
Tags: Apparel Industry, Textile
Virender Uppal, chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has requested the Indian Government to look into its demands favourably. The AEPC has demanded inclusion of 2 per cent fabric within 5 per cent overall entitlement under ...
Tags: fabric, Apparel Export Promotion Council, garment industry
Apparel Export Promotion Council chairman Virender Uppal has said there has been a vacuum in a policy support in the readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing export industry, according to a statement by AEPC. Uppal has requested the ...
Tags: Apparel Export, Apparel
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 ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, Apparel Skilling
While two more textile export bodies have criticised the Foreign Trade Policy, a shoes and apparel major has welcomed it. Over the last week, several textile trade bodies have slammed the new policy for ignoring their concerns. Apparel ...
Tags: AEPC, Negative Reactions, Apparel
Speaking at the inauguration of Tex-Trends India 2015, Indian union textiles minister, Santosh Kumar Gangwar said the new National Textiles Policy will be unveiled after the Union Budget is presented. The new Textiles Policy aims to ...
Tags: home furnishings, yarns, fabrics, silk, Apparel
The biggest institute for apparel training, the Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC), which has more than 170 centers across India and trains more than 50,000 students annually, has become affiliated to the Apparel, Made-Ups & Home ...
Tags: labour market information system, apparel value chain, Apparel
The Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, SK Panda recently visited Gurgaon’s leading fashion institute, the Institute of Apparel Management (IAM). During his visit, Panda actively interacted with the faculty and ...
Tags: Fashion School, institute, Apparel
The exports of garments and clothing accessories from India increased by 17.6 percent in the first six months of the ongoing fiscal year 2014-15 to touch US$ 8.3 billion, over the same period of the previous fiscal year, according to the ...
The exports of apparel form India shot up by 17.9 percent in the first five months of the ongoing financial year that began on April 1, 2014, according to the data from the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). In April-August 2014, ...
Tags: apparel exports, Apparel
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), the apex industry chamber of the textiles and clothing industry of India, is organizing the 8th Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) on the 22nd and 23rd of September in Mumbai. The ...
The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has been constantly seeking an upward revision of duty drawback rates for garments for the past few months. In view of a proposal of duty drawback rate for 2014-15 expected to be submitted to ...
An Apparel Training Design Centre (ATDC) at DIC Complex in East Imphal - Manipur was inaugurated by the Chief Minister Okram Ibobi. Manipur as a state has many ethnic communities with their own traditional apparel. This provides a lot of ...
Tags: ATDC, Apparel Training Centre, Textile
The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has sought expeditious completion of the India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA), as it would provide better market access to Indian exporters. At a ceremony to inaugurate the India ...
Tags: AEPC, Apparel, Accessories, Textile