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An unforeseen drop in global cotton output has seen prices flare, putting at risk the fragile recovery of India’s textile industry that was battered by the global recession earlier in the year. The rising demand the industry was hoping to cash on, bolstered by Rs 25.5 billion in ...
Recently, data from National Bureau of Statistics show that National Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was 55.2 percent in November 2009, unchanged from the previous month. The index has been at the critical point - more than 50 percent for nine consecutive months, ...
Pakistan’s textile exporters have received 1.5 billion dollars in Christmas apparel orders from United States and European countries, giving a fresh lease of life to the dying industry. "The industry was going down until we received Christmas orders this year. We have received 20 ...
As President Barack Obama visited five Asian nations over the past 10 days, he received plenty of advice from home and abroad as to how the United States should deal with what have become increasingly contentious trade issues. Several leaders in the nations he visited warned the ...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said government will lobby for the garment industry with as much fervor as it did for war veterans before the US Congress. “We are lobbying for the early passage of House Resolution 3039 with the same fervor with which we lobbied for Filipino ...
Global rating agency Fitch retained its negative outlook for the Indian textile industry saying exports could recover only with an improvement in economic activities. "The outlook for the sector (textile) remains negative, with prospects of recovery in the export segment only ...
Economic recession has not only impacted the textile industry, which has a lion’s share of 61 per cent in the country’s exports, but has also hit the institutes providing professional education in textiles, which is evident from a decline in enrollment of students. “To meet ...
The textile sector, hit badly by the ongoing demand slowdown in the Western markets, can look forward to some additional sops in the forthcoming foreign trade policy. The government is considering an increase in the input duty reimbursement given to textile exporters, a commerce ...
The US based Starbucks stores will sell Rwandan-made textile products, Managing Director of L’Usine Textile du Rwanda (Utexrwa) has revealed. Raj-Rajendran said in an interview with Business Times that Fair Winds Trading, an artisan promotion company will supply of the customised ...
Pakistan Federal Minister for Textile Industry Rana Muhammad Farooq Saeed Khan said, in the following three years, Pakistan textile export will increase to 25 billion. He said, the policy of our textile industry development of the following three years has already made. So we ...
The textile and apparel sector which had great expectations from the budgetary announcements and which could have helped the sector, move itself out of the deep depression phase since the unveiling of the economic crisis, was in for a shock, when the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab ...
The textile industry’s stakeholders termed the federal budget 2009-10 disappointing and termed it ‘a game of juggling numbers’. The State Minister for Finance & Revenue Hina Rabbani Khar did not explained in her budget speech as to how the government was going to revive the ...
A south of Scotland textiles firm could be forced to halve its workforce in the face of the global downturn in trade. Reid and Taylor has launched a 30-day consultation period with its 46-strong workforce in Langholm. The downsizing proposal could also see the firm - established ...
With exports still in the doldrums, textile manufacturers are turning to the domestic market with help from government campaigns aimed at bolstering sales of locally made goods. And prospects are even brighter for those firms already focusing on the domestic market. "The majority ...
US-based Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) has entered into a multi-property licensee agreement deal with home textile company Northwest to create licensed home goods spanning multiple property lines. The pillow manufacturer will have access to entertainment properties such ...
Color Standards and Measurements Can be Uploaded / Downloaded Anywhere with Use of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Technology Guangzhou, China —May 18, 2009—Datacolor, a global leader in digital color management technology, today announced it is introducing a new line of portable sphere ...
The foreign buyers are forcing the Pakistani textile exporters to fill the export orders from alternative factories located outside Pakistan, Daily Times learnt on Saturday. The rationale cited for compelling the local exporters to meet the export commitment outside the country ...
Seeking intervention of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a moratorium on loan repayment, the crisis-ridden textile industry has said immediate government measures can help it save one million jobs and create additional 2.5 million employment opportunities. The textile ...
The US will soon approve the proposal to provide, tariff free export of products produced in the Economic Opportunity Zones (EOZ’s) in Pakistan for a period of 15 years. A meeting of businessmen and all concerned ministries would be called for planning a concrete strategy ...
In logistics everything depends on timing and availability. The right goods, at the right time, at the right location, in the ordered quantity and number of units and of course, suitably packaged — providers of logistics services have to solve this task from day to day and, if ...
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