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Egypt seeks to promote cotton cultivation
Egyptian authorities are working to boost local cotton cultivation, bringing this core agricultural sector back to life after several years of decline.
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Moroccan textile industry is committed to create 90,000 jobs by 2020
The Moroccan textile industry is committed to create 90,000 jobs by 2020, according to the terms of a performance agreement signed at the end of February by the Moroccan Association of Textile and Clo...
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Textile exporters in a spin as euro slumps
The euro tumbled against the dollar — falling 3.6 cents — after the strong US jobs data released last week. With the euro at 1.06 to the dollar, the market is bracing for the currency reaching parity...
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Saudis account for 27% of Arab investments in Egypt
Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab investor in Egypt with their investments reaching some $5.7 billion (SR21.3 billion), or 27 percent of the Arab totals invested in that country, Egyptian Commercial At...
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Dubai to host second edition of ITF for fabric in April
The second edition of the International Textile Fair (ITF), UAE’s premier platform for fashion, home textile fabrics, and clothing, would be held from April 26 to 27, 2015, at the Dubai international...
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As China slows down, the Philippines moves to grab foreign investment
The Philippines, a nation long in need of industrialization, is taking steps this year pull investment away from Asia’s manufacturing center: China. And some multinationals are already giving the Sout...
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Egypt's Mahalla textile factory workers end four-day strike after deal reached - See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypts-mahalla-textile-factory-workers-end-four-day-strike-after-management-agreement-260129749#sthash.zTpoZWta.dpuf
Workers at a textile factory in the Egyptian town of Mahalla ended a four-day strike on Saturday after working out an agreement with management to be paid a previously promised profit share and discus...
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Foreign firms expand Vietnam production in anticipation of Pacific trade pact chances
Foreign investors have pumped dozens of billions of U.S. dollars to expand or start production in Vietnam in anticipation of business opportunities the Trans-Pacific Partnership will bring as the trad...
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Ethiopia: Etur Textile to Start Exporting to Europe and America
Etur Textile, the Turkish textile manufacturer, is going to start exporting its products to Europe and America after its trial export to the two North African nations, Algeria and Morocco, went succes...
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Carbon Holdings to set up petrochemical plant in Egypt
Carbon Holdings, a company based in Egypt, engaged in developing petrochemical plants and projects, is planning to set up a petrochemical project named Tahir, at a cost of US$ 7 billion, in Ain Sokhna...
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Egyptian textile company posts EGP 2.1bn loss in 2013-14
The Holding Company for Spinning and Weaving, a public sector enterprise run by the Government of Egypt, has incurred a loss of EGP 2.1 billion for the ongoing financial year 2013-14, the company’s ch...
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India to contest blacklisting of textile products by US
The Textile Ministry will contest the US Government’s decision to include garments, carpets and embellished textiles produced in India among items that use child labour or forced labour. “We do not ag...
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Angola Gets $1 Billion Boost From Japan to Revive Textile Plants
Angola is spending $1 billion to revamp three fabric plants that will employ 2,700 people, said the local unit of Marubeni Corp. (8002), Japan’s biggest trader of grains and food products, which is re...
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Chinese cotton textile industry discusses current dilemma
Representatives of more than 260 textile enterprises attended the “2013 China International Cotton Conference” held in Nanjing recently to discuss the current dilemma faced by the Chinese cotton texti...
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Morocco to create new textile sector jobs
Morocco plans to partner with private industry to create 250,000 jobs in the textile sector by 2025, Ansa quoted Trade Minister Abdelkader Amara as saying on Monday (May 13th).
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Indonesian textile industry may see modest growth in 2013
The textile industry of Indonesia could witness modest growth in 2013 due to several domestic challenges faced by the textile manufacturers including increasing cost of electricity and minimum wage of...
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Marks & Spencer 'target of Qatari takeover bid'
Marks & Spencer could be subject to a bid from one of the Middle East's largest investment funds, according to weekend reports.
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Can Egypt Live Without Private Investment?
As the political crisis in Egypt continues to evolve, American and European investors are becoming increasingly troubled by what they see as a lack of legal and regulatory security. Two years ago, the...
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Tortured labor: Egyptian textile workers to protest 'Brotherhoodisation', assaults
Workers at the state-owned Mahalla Misr Spinning and Weaving Company will march on Tuesday to protest the Muslim Brotherhood's failure to realise the revolution's demands. The march will start at the...
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Egypt trade conditions weaken Egyptian apparel exports
The slide in the value of the Egyptian pound since December is good news for the textile industry, but its impact is blunted by the deterioration in economic and business conditions since the 2011 rev...