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INDIA: Garment exporters facing competition from neighbouring countries
It’s not just economic down turn that is giving jitters to Indian apparel exports industry, but tough competition from neighbouring China, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well.
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China's textile on the mend, problems remain
Since the second half last year, China’s textile industry has suffered from big difficulties never seen before as the result of global economic crisis. Now the industry does gradually step out of the...
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Serbia textiles & clothing report Q4 2009
Serbia is a small textile and clothing producer, still struggling to overcome the upheavals of the 1990s, which included the break-up of Yugoslavia, the Balkans conflicts, privatisations and the reori...
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India dominates world’s largest home-textile fair Heimtextil
Despite uncertainties that still plague the world’s home-textile industry with low demand and high unemployment in many traditional markets, India dominated the ongoing four-day Heimtextil fair in Fra...
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Slovakia textiles & clothing report Q4 2009
Slovakia is a small textile and clothing producer, with a long tradition in the industry during the time of the Soviet bloc, and now the potential of a specialist, market-oriented role to play within...
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Parliamentary report requires the government to the protection of spinning and weaving industry
The report - which will be discussed by the Committee today in the presence of leaders from the Ministry of Commerce and the Federation of Industries – called the government to continue in providing f...
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Egyptian Yarn Sales Increased 200% in June
MR. Fetouh Abd El Majid, (President Of Delta For Spinning And Weaving Company) stated that local yarn sales had a steady increase in local markets reached to 300 tons in June compared to 100 tons in l...
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5% Increase in the Egyptian ready-made exports to the U.S markets
The report pointed out an increase in the Egyptian exports of ready-made garments & textile by 5% during the same period last year reaching to 383 million USD compared to 366 million USD. Furthermore,...
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CAPMS Head: 92% decline in cotton exports after decline in world prices & cultivated areas
Abu Bakr El Gondy, president of CAPMS stated that China is one of the most importing countries for the Egyptian cotton with a percentage of 49.2% of total export quantity. Adding to that, total domest...
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75% Decline in the use of Egyptian cotton & greater reliance on the imported
The report referred to the decline of in quantities of cotton used by 21.7%, to reach 574 thousands kantars. The report explained that there is a reduction in total consumption of the Egyptian cotton...
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Exporting 426 thousand and 830 kantar for 22 countries of total value 54 million dollars
He added that the amount of contracts from the super-long staple varieties of cotton reached 265 thousand and 290 per kantars with a 62.12% of total contracts, while the amounts of contracts of long i...
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Subsidized Imported Cotton threats the domestic production
Eng. Abd El Aziz Amer- vice chairman of the committee- has warned from the tendency of importing foreign cotton from abroad, where numerically, it refers to importing of about 2 million Kantars by pri...
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Marks & Spencer Q1 sales fall less than expected
British retailer Marks & Spencer reported a smaller-than-expected drop in first-quarter underlying sales as Executive Chairman Stuart Rose insisted he was "not concerned" by a growing row over his suc...
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US cotton production hits its lowest in 25 years
The U.S. farmers planted about 9 million cotton acres this year, their fewest since 1983, with growers inMississippi and Louisiana planting their smallest acreages on record. The U.S. Department of Ag...
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Pierre Cardin to sell licences to China
The French fashion group Pierre Cardin on Monday said it would sell its textile and accessories licences in China to two Chinese enterprises for 200 million euros ($A348.49 million). Founder Pierre Ca...
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Bangladesh textile workers run riots over wage payment delay
Thousands of textile workers in Bangladesh have clashed with police for a third consecutive day in a protest over pay and conditions.The workers were also protesting two colleagues' deaths blamed on p...
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Texmed pesents Tunisian textile industry
Tunisian textile industry in terms of quality, competitive costs, flexibility, responsiveness, just-in-time delivery and respect for social and environmental standards and norms, the Tunisian textile...
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Turkey becoming a fashion hub
In the international fashion sphere, Istanbul used to be largely synonymous with textiles—and arguably, little beyond that. The expiration of the Multi-Fibre Agreement on Jan. 1, 2005, posed a threat...
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Decline in India cotton yarn and fabric exports
Exports of India's cotton yarn and fabric declined by more than 45 per cent in March to $237 million over the same month last year due to the global slump in demand, according to the commerce ministry...
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China’s cotton planting area down 11.34% for 2009
China's cotton planting area in 2009 has declined an estimated 11.34 percent from last year, said a report on the official website of the China Cotton Association (CCA). Based on its survey in 13 majo...