A Swedish initiative has helped Indian apparel suppliers to Swedish brands like KappAhl, Indiska and Lindex, reduce environmental impact and improve capacity through training on resource efficiency. The Sustainable Water Resources (SWAR) ...
Tags: apparel suppliers, apparel
Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite the process for finalising a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union. A requisition letter has been sent to the Prime ...
Tags: Tirupur Exporters, FTA with EU, garment
A latest report from Better Work Vietnam reveals that fire safety initiatives in garment factories in the Southern region of Vietnam are yet to meet national and global standards, despite certain progress. Major garment factories in the ...
VF Corporation, a leading apparel supplier chain company, and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have provided loans to three Bangladeshi garment factories under a new program for funding fire and building safety improvements. Through ...
NYSE listed, apparel marketer, Gap Inc. and TAU Investment Management, an active growth-equity investment firm that transforms global supply chains, have entered into a partnership to promote best-in-class innovations and support the ...
Tags: garment factories, Apparel
The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety (Alliance) has taken up a new initiative to protect the lives of garment workers by providing fire safety training to factory security guards. The course will prepare guards to react effectively ...
Tags: Fire Safety, Security Guards, Apparel
The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a body recognised for fire safety, signed a partnership which will guide garment factories adopt best practices and most up to date standards for ...
Tags: NFPA, Safety Measures, Accessories
The apex bank of Bangladesh has extended its refinancing scheme of easy loans to the garment sector for improving safety standards in garment production units. This loan upto Taka 10 million, which can be borrowed from commercial banks or ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Safety, Apparel
Every year in the month August NITRA offers a bouquet of intensive manpower training programs on distance learning mode to help the aspiring and existing textile & garment industry professionals. The programs enable them to update ...
The government of Kano state in Nigeria has invested N2 billion for importing machinery and equipment to be installed in 44 new garment factories that are being set up across the state, Kano Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said, ...
Speakers at a high-level event to commemorate One Year after Rana Plaza, reiterated their commitment to working together to ensure safety and rights for workers in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. “It has been a ...
Tags: Garment Units
On the anniversary of the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka (Bangladesh), the Foreign Trade Association (FTA) highlights the efforts undertaken by European retailers and importers to contribute to the improvement of safety conditions ...
Garment manufacturers from Hong Kong have entered into an agreement to set up their first industrial park in Myanmar, reports the South China Morning Post. The apparel park would be set up on 200 hectare area in Yangon, the former ...
A 16-member six country African delegation is in India to explore ways and means to increase exports of African cotton to India. The delegation is also visiting various Indian textile clusters in order to check and imbibe the best practices ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Cotton
The Government of Karnataka, a state in southern India, through the Department of Handloom and Textiles, has invested Rs. 13 billion under various schemes during the current financial year, reports The Hindu. Addressing a one-day ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, Textile