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Turkish Mega textile workers' strike in El Sadat city shows no sign of ending
The strike in the Turkish woven apparel factory located in Egypt continues, as the young and relatively inexperienced workers are showing impressive determination; the strike is their sixth in four ye...
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JAPAN: attractive market for Vietnam`s garment and textile exports.
A seminar on garment and textile trends in the Japanese market and opportunities for Vietnamese businesses was held in Hanoi on May 10, with the presence of Fumio Koyama from the Japan International C...
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INDIA: India Seeks to Boost Investment in the Textiles Industry.
In an attempt to inject foreign capital throughout its textile value chain, the Indian government has announced it will provide a maximum subsidy of $438 million in the hopes of attracting a total inv...
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BANGLADESH: Apparel sector to grow by 14 percent annually over the next four years.
The Bangladesh apparel market will grow by more than 14 percent annually over the next four years, according to a market research.
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GERMANY: Cooperation between Serbian and German textile industries
Minister of Economy and Regional Development Nebojsa Ciric has been on a working visit to Germany today during which he presented Serbia’s industry of textile and garments at a conference in the Chamb...
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Egypt: Egypt's textile crisis keeps on spinning.
Factory-owners continue to demand a halt in cotton exports to ease up the growing financial burden of acquiring raw materials
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Egypt: Arafa Holding Co.'s net profits jumped by 68 percent in year ended January
Arafa Holding, Egypt's biggest garment exporter, said on Monday that consolidated net profit for the 12 months to Jan. 31 jumped by 68 percent from a year earlier.
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World Cotton Prices Crash on Physical Market and reached 3 months low
Cotton futures were down for a third day on Wednesday, plunging to a three-month low as speculation of further monetary tightening by China added to concerns over a slowdown in demand from the world’s...
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EGYPT: The holding comapny for cotton, spinning and weaving pays about 110 million Egp for the employees.
Eng. Mohsen El Gilani (Chairman of the Holding Company for Cotton, Spinning and Weaving and Garment) confirmed that that there is no intention to liquidate the company's production lines and factories...
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Turkey: Turkey puts safeguard duty on Bangladeshi apparel.
According to local media reports yesterday, Turkey has put a provisional 17% safeguard duty on the import of apparel products from the least developed countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh. The measu...
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Egypt's Alcotexa sells 302 tonnes of cotton in 2 weeks.
Egypt's Alexandria Cotton Exporters' Association (Alcotexa) committed to sell 302 tonnes of cotton in the two weeks that ended on April 30, an Alcotexa official told Reuters on Monday.
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UK: Activewear company OSC to use new Visual system.
Visual 2000 International Inc announces that UK activewear brand manager Outdoor and Sports Company Limited (OSC Ltd) has begun implementation of its Visual PLM.net product lifecycle management (PLM)...
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JAPAN: Japanese textile businesses choose Vietnam.
With rational labour costs, Vietnam is a good investment destination for Japanese garment and textile businesses, said a senior JICA expert.
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EGYPT: Textile factories strike on the rise of cotton prices.
Cotton prices have gone up to E £43,000 per ton from L £12,000 per ton, while selling prices of goods have not moved enough. In order to protest this rise in cotton price, workers in industrial city o...
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JAPAN: Japan's Man-Made Fibre Production increase by 8.7% in March.
The Japan Chemical Fibers Association reported that the nation’s production of man-made fibers increased by 8.7% in March from the same month of last year to 88,603 tons, of which synthetic fibers ros...
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VIETNAM: Garments & Textiles lead surge in export revenue.
The country's export revenue in the first four months of the year surged 35.7 per cent over the same period last year to reach US$26.94 billion, the General Statistics Office estimated.
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BANGLADESh: Bangladesh becomes world`s second largest knitwear exporter.
According to statistics of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA), Bangladesh exported 7.78 billion pieces of knitted garments in 2010, amounting to Taka 6.19 billion...
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UK: Tesco faces clothing challenge.
The new head of Tesco has said that the retailer increased prices to cope with rising raw material costs last year, but admits that slumping demand for clothing is now presenting a problem of its own....
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SWEDEN: H&M sales climb during March.
Swedish fashion retailer H&M saw its sales climb 2% during March 2011, compared to the same period last year when strong growth was seen on the back of the Easter holidays.
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PAKISTAN: Textile Exports surge 30.43 % in nine months.
Despite challenges of energy shortage, the textile exports surged by 30.43 percent during the first nine months of the current fiscal year as against the same period of last year.