Impact of recession is quite visible on all the economies of the world. Countries, those were booming in the past few years are now badly disrupted because of global financial downturn.
The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) partners with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services and business solutions firm to bring IT-as-a-Service to it members. The service is about providing managed IT services, one that would scale up with business growth and leverage technologies for global competitiveness.
China's textile and apparel industry is showing a positive trend in the first five months of the year, with an 11.58 percent increase in trade surplus, the China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC) announced Tuesday. The CNTAC added the coefficient of export competitiveness in the same...
The National Institute of Fashion (NIFT), based in India and fashion industry planning experts Fast React Systems (FRS), based in UK and Asia have completed a collaborative initiative to bring good planning disciplines to the Apparel Industry.
Applied DNA Sciences Inc (APDN) announced that its proprietary ingredient, DermalRx HydroSeal, has been incorporated into the fabric of a new line of intimate apparel currently being test marketed by a global marketer of intimate apparel.Consumer responses are being evaluated in several major ...
The term 'apparel' does not just refer to any particular dress such as, a skirt or a pant. It refers to what we wear. It can be any kind of clothing irrespective of design, d茅cor, style and so on. Clothing need not be restricted to any particular form or type. We may extend our creativity in terms of our apparel. That is what, today's fashion industry believes in.
The government has declared two stimulus packages in the last few weeks to boost exports and to tackle the global economic crisis, but a sense of euphoria seems to be missing in the exporter's community. The apparel export industry in particular does not seem to be so happy with the announcements. All the apex apparel associations aver that, apparel exports will fall short of a wide margin of the targeted US $11.6 billion in the current fiscal year (2008-09).
As Christmas season starts to roll, many retailers in the clothing industry are struggling with stocking inventory because of the credit crunch. Many of them cannot afford to stock existing and buy new inventories when sales are extremely slow...
The Garments and Textiles Sector in Jordan; is the largest industrial sector in the Kingdom and is growing rapidly with more than 100 ready made garment factories employing more than 55,000 workers, located in 6 different industrial zones.
Despite the yearlong economic slowdown and the challenges ahead for California's apparel industry, there were bright stars, success stories and forward thinkers who made an impact on the industry in 2008.