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ISRAEL: Delta Galil names CEO of US and Europe
Intimate apparel maker Delta_Galil Industries Ltd has named Mr Zvika Shamir as CEO of its US upper market and Europe intimate apparel division and Mr Motti Fireman as vice president of human resources...
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EICA Releases Cotton Spot Rates
For the past many years, the East India Cotton Association (EICA) has played a significant role not only in the development of all the required infra-structure facilities for smooth and orderly market...
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India - Bt tech to help raise cotton productivity to world levels
Cotton production in India in 2007-08 is estimated by the Cotton Association of India, to be at a record level of 310 lakh bales of 170 kg each up from 280 lakh bales in the previous season. The yield...
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Tesco to ban Uzbek cotton
UK retail giant Tesco has asked its suppliers to stop sourcing cotton from Uzbekistan after an investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation found children were being forced to work in the for...
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USA: FDA allot approval to use textile-based ECG Electrode
WILMINGTON: The textile innovation company, focused on the development of energy activated warming, illuminating, conducting, and sensing textile materials and systems, Textronics, Inc. has received U...
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EGYPT: Egypt's textile industry on growth path
Egypt's textile industry on growth path after € 80 million EU funding; € 19.5 m being used for industry restructure. The steadfast support from the Egyptian Government and the European Union (EU) have...
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Garment workers in Dhaka protest
Hundreds of garment workers have taken to the streets in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in protest over the sudden closure of their factory. They blocked roads in the Sheorepara area of the city, cau...
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Arvind Mills Ltd – Budget Reactions
The proposed budget has announced leapfrog changes in Indirect Taxes especially addressing long awaited reductions in CENVAT Rate to 14%, reduction in Excise Duty for Pharma and automotive sector and...
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Canada : North American men's apparel retailer to close Canadian facility
The Men's Wearhouse announced that it is closing its manufacturing facility (dba: Golden Brand) based in Montreal, Quebec on or around July 2008. "This was a very difficult decision for us to make and...
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German textile industry faces strike threat
The German trade union IG Metall, has announced warning strikes in the clothing and textile industry for next week after a third round of talks in the current pay negotiations failed to produce result...
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INDIA: No remedial measures for sick textile sector
The industry has been crying since April, 2007 about the appreciating Rupee and very fast erosion of competitiveness of this sector. The industry was expecting concrete proposals to address the issue...
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Study finds high contamination levels in Cotton
By John Zarocostas GENEVA — Twenty-two percent of raw cotton sold in the last two years was seriously or moderately contaminated, which poses a burden for spinning mills, according to a global industr...
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Why do Turkish investors are coming to Egypt?
ISTANBUL- Hürriyet ALK Holding's textile unit is in a bottleneck, wrote Mahmut اalk, the father of اalk Holding Chairman Ahmet اalk in a letter to the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoًan. “I gave unpa...
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Egyptian textile workers end strike
Factory managers said the strike cost the company millions of dollars a day [AFP] Workers at Egypt's largest textile factory have ended a week-long strike after the government agreed to their demands,...
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Full integrated textile and apparel industrial park to be founded
Eng. Rashid Mohammed Rashid (Minister of Trade & Industry) has announced that an agreement was reached with his Italian counterpart, for establishing a full integrated textile and apparel industrial p...
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Strong Indian rise in textile exports to US, EU
The textile and clothing exports to the US and the EU which together account for about two-thirds of India’s total textile and clothing exports, have recorded a growth of 8 percent and 14 percent resp...
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Egyptian cotton growing area is on the decline
The government needs to take serious steps to recover the reputation of its cotton crop by increasing production, introducing new cotton varieties, reducing costs and implementing a clear pricing poli...
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Vietnam: US $3 billion expected for garment-textile export
Vietnam's garment and textile industry is gearing up to reach monthly export turnovers of over US $633 million in a bid to fulfil its yearly target of US $7.35 billion.
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USA : Asian giants top competitors for cotton production
For past couple of years, cotton exports have been on a rise with China emerging as a potential market. Today, statistics reveal that 70-75 percent of the domestic production is being exported. In 200...
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Jordan "dismayed" by U.S. labor, textile group case
The Jordanian government on Monday defended actions it has taken to stop mistreatment of foreign textile workers and said it was dismayed U.S. groups want the Bush administration to file a formal trad...