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Apparel Sector
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Industry Profits Slide on Broad-Based Weakness
Dec 14, 2015Lingering inventory issues from the port delays, ongoing foreign exchange headwinds for international companies and a tepid response from consumers at retail pushed down aggregate industry profits by 14% in Q3 to $3,529.3 million from ...
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SGS Supports Cambodian & Myanmar Apparel Sector
Aug 31, 2015To support the apparel industry in Southeast Asia, SGS operates a laboratory in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia and also provides garment inspection services in Myanmar. The Cambodian facility has the capability to perform product ...
Tags: SGS, Apparel Sector
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Pakistan's Value Added Sector Opposes Yarn Import Duty
Aug 21, 2015Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PHMA) has rejected the government's plan to impose import duty on cotton yarn saying it would pose negative impact on the value-added textile sector, the Pakistani media has ...
Tags: Yarn Import Duty, cotton yarn
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Galleria Intima to Display Intimate Wear Technologies
Aug 20, 2015Automation machines for intimate wear, including technologies from China, would be on display for the first time at Galleria Intima, fourth edition of which will be held from August 26, 2015, in New Delhi. Machines on show will include ...
Tags: Automation machines, intimate wear
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Haiti's Apparel Sector Has Just Got a Shot in The Arm
Jul 20, 2015Haiti’s apparel sector has just got a shot in the arm. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has decided to invest $4 million to help The Willbes Haitian S.A., a subsidiary of South Korea-based ...
Tags: apparel manufacture, IFC, knits, sweaters, woven products, microfibers
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Euratex Convention Will Be Devoted to Sustainable Innovation
Jul 20, 2015The 2015 edition of the annual Euratex Convention will be devoted to sustainable innovation in the textile and clothing industry. The Convention will be organised by the European apparel and textile confederation (Euratex) and its Italian ...
Tags: textile manfacture, apparel and clothing, clothing manufacture
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India's Cumulative Readymade Garment Were to The Tune of $3.012 Billion
Jul 15, 2015India’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
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Vietnam's Textile and Garment Industry Attracted a Majority of The Biggest FDI Projects
Jul 7, 2015Vietnam’s textile and garment industry attracted a majority of the biggest foreign direct investment (FDI) projects approved in the first six months of this year though many provinces had earlier announced they would keep away from ...
Tags: textile fashion, FDY project, garment
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Exports of The Turkish Textile and Apparel Sector to Greece Went up 9.1 Per Cent in 2014
Jul 6, 2015After the exports of the Turkish textile and apparel sector to Greece went up 9.1 per cent to $116 million in 2014, the first five months of 2015 concluded with a 19 per cent decline, according to Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters ...
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ATDC Hosted a Three-Day Event in Gurgaon This Week
Jun 19, 2015Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC), the country’s largest quality vocational training provider for the apparel industry, hosted a three-day event in Gurgaon this week that focused on understanding the emerging skill framework in ...
Tags: apparel industry, clothes
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Haiti's Centre to Strengthen Textile Investments in Haiti
Jun 1, 2015Haiti’s centre for the facilitation of investments (CFI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the association of industries in Haiti (ADIH) to strengthen textile investments in Haiti. Backed by the Inter-American ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Haiti
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Galleria Intima Is Moving to Delhi for Its 4th Edition to Be Held on 26-27 August,2015
May 11, 2015India’s biggest intimate wear sourcing show Galleria Intima is moving to Delhi for its 4th edition to be held on 26-27 August, 2015. An initiative of Intimate Apparel Association of India (IAAI), Galleria Intima 2015 will see ...
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Bangladesh's Gov to Set up More Textile Engineering Colleges and Textile Institutes
May 7, 2015Bangladesh’s minister for textiles and jute, Muhammad Imaj Uddin Pramanik has called for making apparel sector more competitive to attain the goal of upgrading the country to a middle-income nation by 2021, according to an official ...
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Indo-Canadian MoUs to Help Skilling
Apr 23, 2015India 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
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Indonesian Textile Imports Increase in Q1 2015
Apr 17, 2015The imports of man-made filaments and knitted or crocheted fabrics by the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia increased in the first quarter of 2015, according to the data from Statistics Indonesia. From January to March 2015, ...
