OUR clothes are normally made of cotton, wool, silk and an array of synthetic fibres. Now, we can even have towels, bedsheets and garments made of bamboo and pearl fibres. Flyer Enterprise (M) Sdn Bhd director Safina Tee...
Real estate private equity firm realizes profit on 18-month investmentNEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Savanna Investment Management, LLC, a New York City based real estate investment and development firm, has completed the sale of 63-67 West 38th Street, a...
New Delhi: 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. "We are facing competition from exporters in Bangladesh, China and Sri Lanka who...
Shulie sits bent over her sewing machine amidst row upon row of Bangladeshi garment workers - a sea of denim blue as each one whizzes up and down the seams of jeans destined for Zara, the Western fashion chain. The deafening whirr of hundreds of sewing machines, the...
Determined to promote the quality of textile materials manufactured in Africa, the African Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), Fashion HP, Blokes and Divas, CityStream Live, and Naija Prime have announced plans to host a textile fashion and design exhibition...
Staff Reporter Bangalore: A 27-year-old garment factory worker was found smothered to death at her residence in Kalikanagar near Byadarahalli in Ramanagara district in the early hours of Monday....
Staff Reporter Bangalore: A 27-year-old garment factory worker was found smothered to death at her residence in Kalikanagar near Byadarahalli in Ramanagara district in the early hours of Monday....
The Weatherproof Garment Company, which turned heads last week with a controversial Times Square billboard showing President Obama in one of its coats, has agreed to take down the billboard after talking with the White House. The ad showed an Associated Press photograph...
By Supriya Roy Chowdhury Recent events in Bangalore have highlighted the situation of women workers in the citys export oriented ready made garments (RMG) industry. Nine-hundred women workers of Konnega International lost their livelihood in October 2009, when their...
