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India’s Godwit Khadi, a startup with passion for khadi

November 14, 2016, 3:58 am
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Godwit Khadi.

Meet, engineer Namita Sharma, Founder of Dehradun (India)-based Godwit Khadi, a startup with passion for khadi, and that too without any textile background. Started recently, Godwit Khadi is a small organization which is 100 per cent into khadi. Namita recently participated at its first ever international sourcing fair and talked to Apparel Resources, “I’ve always had interest in fashion and strong fashion sense too. Khadi business was my father’s dream so I was enthralled about this step.”

She further added, “People across the world are still not aware about Indian tradition and culture; khadi and its benefits. Similarly in India it has faded away, although there is enough scope in this segment. Being handmade, khadi has such a nice feel, and fur doesn’t tear as well. It remains cool in summer and warm in winter. Khadi business is also a great employment generator in many rural areas,

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Indian apparel exporter Fusion Clothing to expand its capacity

April 19, 2017, 9:05 am
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Organic Clothing.

There are very few dedicated Indian apparel exporters that are completely into organic and one of them is Fusion Clothing Company, Mumbai. Out of its total manufacturing capacity, 95 per cent is organic clothing and now it is further expanding its capacity by 50 per cent.

Shishir Goenka, Founder of the company told Apparel Resources, “Currently we are producing almost 50,000 pieces per month and after the expansion, it will be 75,000 pieces per month. It may take maximum three months for expansion. This increased capacity is for existing as well as new buyers.” Once the added capacity will be functional, the company is expecting at least 35 per cent growth.

Also Read – Amaaaz Group looking for ‘organic’ apparel

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Bangladesh’s apparel exporter Esquire Knit mulls business expansion

April 20, 2017, 4:17 am
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Bangladesh Garment Factory.

Esquire Knit Composite, one of the leading apparel exporters of Bangladesh, is planning to invest BDT 576 crore in business expansion. Of the amount, BDT 340 crore will come from local and foreign loans, while BDT 86 crore will come from the company's own funds and the rest BDT 150 crore from the capital market, a company official informed.

The company will use ‘book building method’ to raise BDT 150 crore from the capital market. Book building is a process through which an issuer attempts to determine the price to offer for its security, based on demand from institutional investors. The apparel supplier even organized a roadshow in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, on 18 April as part of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) plan.

Also Read – MAS Holdings to open its first manufacturing & development centre in

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Bangladesh’s Fortis Garments to open two more facilities

April 24, 2017, 5:31 am
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Garment Factory.

Fortis Garments, one of the renowned garment exporters of Bangladesh, is going to open two more factories soon, one of which would be for woven products exclusively and the other for denim, to be set up at Rajendrapur (close to Dhaka) and Chittagong, respectively. The construction work is on in full swing for both the units.

“The new factories will produce denim and other woven garments and there might be sports item and ladieswear added later on,” maintained Sazzad Hossain, General Manager of Fortis Garments while speaking to Apparel Resources.

Fortis Garments Ltd. was built in 2010 in Gazipur with production capacity of 600,000 pieces of various kinds of garments monthly. Besides, garment, Fortis also has a packaging unit.

Also Read – Bangladesh’s apparel exporter Esquire Knit mulls business

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Brandix emerges as Sri Lanka’s most valuable export brand

April 24, 2017, 10:38 pm
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Apparel Factory.

Sri Lanka’s largest apparel exporter – Brandix has been ranked country’s most valuable export brand for the third consecutive year in Brand Finance’s 2017 ranking of the country’s leading brands. It also won Gold and two special awards for excellence in ‘Talent Management’ and ‘Learning & Development’ at the 2015-16 National Human Capital Management (HCM) Awards gala (formerly known as the National HRM Awards), once again demonstrating the Group’s commitment to its people.

The most valuable brand tag was given to the garment exporter due to its corporate vision, reputation and image; leadership and people; degree of innovation and quality consciousness.

Also Read – Indian Textiles Commissioner in all praise for Brandix Park

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Tukatech’s apparel solutions boosting Brandix India’s efficiency

April 27, 2017, 1:50 am
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Brandix .

Sri Lanka’s largest apparel exporter – Brandix has chosen Tukatech’s apparel solutions to boost the efficiency and productivity of product development and production. Tukatech’s offering TUKAcutplan and SMARTmark has been implemented at the Brandix Apparel India City located at Atchutapuram, Andhra Pradesh. The implementation of the software was done nine months ago, and since then the apparel exporter has witnessed some significant results.

“Tukatech’s SMARTmark has given us at least 1 per cent fabric savings over any known software. This is working well with our fast fashion segment,” averred Dave Ranasinghe, Director, Brandix, Sri Lanka.

SMARTmark by Tukatech is an automatic marker making for costing & production markers. An add-on module to TUKAcad, it maximizes the placement of markers and utilizes every possible piece of fabric, generating enormous savings. Whereas, TUKAcutplan offered high level of customization to

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Store closures in US concerns Indian apparel exporters

April 27, 2017, 3:00 am
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Apparel Store.

Struggling fashion retail business in the US is a big concern for Indian apparel exporters as in the past few months over 18 fashion brands have shown negative results. Some of the retailers have even announced stores closure and are filing for Chapter 11. As the EU market is already not doing well and now US is also showing sluggishness, both of which are traditional and core markets for India, apparel exporters are getting concerned. Apparel Resources talked to industry players on how this scenario will impact them and their plans to handle the situation.

R Sabhari Girish, CEO, Award Associates, Tirupur shared that he was working till last year with such companies and after seeing the not so motivating developments, he decided to stay away. “We are creating an alternate client

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Indian apparel exporter Aaris Exim focusing on multiple fronts

May 1, 2017, 2:02 am
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Aaris Exim, Jaipur.

Jaipur-based apparel and home furnishing house Aaris Exim is moving ahead on multiple fronts. The company has shifted its markets, and is focusing more on in-house production. It has even moved its factory into a bigger space. Once its primary market, Aaris Exim now just exports 10 per cent to Japan, and rest 90 per cent to the US, France and Spain.

In the apparel business from past three decades, Ajay Solanki, owner of the company said, “It was not very difficult for us as we were well aware of the markets, and hard work and consistent quality have always been our focus. Our new unit is spread in 10,000 square yards of area; this will allow us to be well organized.”

Now the next generation: Rishabh (a Business Management pass-out from Delhi University)

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Labour shortage pushes India Today Fashions to start factory in Gurgaon

May 1, 2017, 9:54 pm
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Rajendra Bhatia, India Today Fashions.

Though Jaipur (India) is a cost-effective garment manufacturing hub, especially when compared to Delhi-NCR, but labour shortage is an issue there which forced India Today Fashions, an apparel exporter based in the region, to start a new unit in Gurgaon (Haryana).

The company is well aware with extra cost of production that it will have to bear in Gurgaon, coupled with logistic cost and that it will have to coordinate from Jaipur…, but as the apparel supplier is facing acute labour shortage, it had to take this step. “Already some of our jobwork is being done in Gurgaon so we thought why shouldn’t we set-up our own factory there as it is hard get new skilled workers in Jaipur, the same is easily available in Gurgaon. Very soon our new factory will be operational,” shared Rajendra Bhatia, MD of the

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Bangladesh’s Envoy Group Chairman named Business Person of the Year

May 8, 2017, 10:47 pm
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Kutubuddin Ahmed, Envoy Group.

With over US $ 32 billion in garment exports already, Bangladesh is home to some of the renowned apparel manufacturers and exporters globally and as the country moves ahead aiming to achieve US $ 50 billion in garment exports by 2021, the limelight is back on the entrepreneurs who have built these huge corporates on mere strength of their grit and determination. One such businessman is the Chairman of Envoy Group of Bangladesh, Kutubuddin Ahmed, who was crowned the Business Person of the Year at the 16th edition of the prestigious Bangladesh Business Awards for his superlative success as well as contribution to the economy, recently.

In his winning speech Ahmed insisted that honesty and integrity are the keys to his enormous success. “If one is courageous, honest and sincere, he/she can be successful in any business,” Ahmed

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Indian apparel exporter Richa Global takes ‘refreshing’ step to boost shopfloor productivity

May 10, 2017, 12:45 am
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Richa Global.

Some of the Indian apparel exporters are undertaking unique initiatives to raise the motivation levels of their talented staff. Based in Delhi-NCR, Richa Global, a respected name in Indian apparel export industry, took one such significant step when it recently arranged a three-day Goa trip for 12 members of its production team (including staff from IE and quality department).

The company bore all the trip expenses and ensured that the team had a splendid time during this break which also included interesting dress codes for the staff highlighting the company’s name.

Also Read –  India’s Orient Craft motivating and guiding its workers in a unique way

Adesh Giri and Kulmeet Singh, GM – Production of the company, who

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Indian apparel exporter IMAIMA moving forward with focus on niche products

May 14, 2017, 11:15 pm
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Apparel exporter IMAIMA, based in Jaipur (India), which was established by young and professional design experts, Sajal Dewan and Bahhareh Karimi two years back, is moving forward with its niche collection and efforts to explore new markets.

Manufacturing womenswear and specialized in hand embroidery, the company is in search for new and unexplored markets like Russia where Indian products have good scope. As of now, the organization has a mixed clientele like boutique buyers in Berlin, Paris and London, and it even sells collections online across the world. Offering womenswear from Euro 20-350, the garment exporter is also exploring advanced technology and is open to invest in latest innovations.

Also Read – India’s Kay Jain

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Indian apparel exporter Gaiety Fashion expanding capacity; adding new buyers

May 15, 2017, 9:52 pm
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Gaiety Fashion.

Tirupur (India)-based apparel exporter Gaiety Fashion, which was established in 2009, is expanding its capacity, setting up a new printing unit and adding fresh buyers too… The company currently has 320 stitching machines and is in the process to add 110 machines more.

At its printing unit, the focus will be totally on screen printing. Machines of M&R have already been booked for the same. The establishment of the unit will however take some time as the company is yet to finalize the location in a bid to ensure there is no pollution issue.

S N Boopathy, Partner of the company shared with Apparel Resources, “We are investing almost Rs. 2.75 crore in this expansion and

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CTA Apparels seeks to increase fabric sourcing

May 20, 2017, 1:00 am
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CTA Apparels .

Noida (India)-based garment manufacturer and exporter, CTA Apparels Pvt. Ltd., is geared up to increase its fabric manufacturing capacity through its vertically integrated textile mill. Currently, the company is producing approximately 1,00,000 metres of woven fabric per month and further aiming to increase it by three times over the next two months to make it around 3,00,000 metres per month.

Located at 35 kms away from its garment manufacturing unit, the textile mill of the company has been in operation for more than 3 months now and dedicated towards the elimination of process loss due to unavailability or late delivery of fabric.

Talking exclusively with Apparel Resources, Manuj Dawar, GM (Operations), CTA Apparels, said, “We are in quite early stage of fabric sourcing but we are targeting to keep shrinkage parameter anything between +1 to -2 to utilize the fabric in the best possible way...”

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TEA explores possibilities to set up garmenting units in Odisha (India)

May 22, 2017, 1:30 am
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Textile Park.

Garment manufacturers in the nearby areas of Tirupur (India) are exploring more investment opportunities to set up new manufacturing units in Odisha. A delegation of Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA) recently held discussion with Balakrishnan IAS, Chief Development Commissioner, Chitra Arumugham IAS, Textile Secretary, Subroto Bagchi, Skill Development Corporation Chairman, Bhubaneshwar and TEA General Secretary T R Vijayakumar about the textile park project and the State Government's textile & apparel policy.

During the three-day tour ,the delegation also visited the Ramdaspur, the place where textile park is being set up and observed the facilities offered. They also toured TITCO Industrial Corporation, which allocated 70 acres of land for the textile park in the state with the availability of water, power supply and road amenities.

Also Read – 20 MoUs signed to promote textile and apparel industry in North Eastern

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Pan Brothers to set up new factories

May 23, 2017, 10:04 pm
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Indonesia-based textile and garment exporter Pan Brothers has announced an investment plan of US $ 35-37 million for 2017. “US $ 30 million from the capex is allocated for construction of Eco Smart factory while remaining will be used for the maintenance of existing factories,” said Anne Patricia Sutanto, Deputy Director of the company.

There will be two new factories under PT Eco Smart Garment Indonesia in Central Java, to be finished later this year. The installed capacity will be 21 million pieces of garment and the production will start in 2018. “Our total capacity now is 90 million pieces of garment each year, with the addition of this plant, it can increase the capacity of 21 million pieces of garment each year, bringing a total of 111 million pieces per year,” Anne added.

Also Read – Indonesian

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Strawberry Clothings exploring opportunities in Canadian market

May 30, 2017, 3:19 am
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Rohit Bhandari, Director, Strawberry Clothings.

Noida (India)-based apparel exporter Strawberry Clothings (a unit of Shatabadi Exports) is exploring new markets, improving its work culture and increasing its manufacturing capacity to enter into domestic market...

Rohit Bhandari, Director of the company told Apparel Resources that he is exploring Canada and will participate in a Canada-based sourcing fair too as the country has lot of scope for Indian stuff. “Currently we are studying this market and hopefully we’ll get good business in future from there.”

He further informed that plans are underway to have a separate unit for Indian domestic brands. “Being an exporter, we are used to of having better control over quality and in domestic market it will work as our big strength. I had discussions with some known Indian brands of womenswear and they highlighted the need of expertise in quality which we already

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Versatile Clothing Company opts for Speed Step’s Design Suite

June 6, 2017, 9:32 pm
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Tirupur (India)-based Versatile Clothing Company, a leading manufacturer of cotton knitted hosiery garments, has decided to implement Speed Step’s Design application bundle. Intuitive and easy to learn user interface and unique functions streamlined and focused on fashion design were the key points for the apparel manufacturer to go for Speed Step’s software solution.

Manikandan, Managing Director, Versatile Clothing Company said, “The Speed Step software application is a wonderful tool to support our creative designers in their daily work. It will give us a good change and we can be faster in our design processes. Moreover, it will support us to develop more creative products and present this to our customers”.

Also Read – Centric Software establishes new office in Hong Kong

It may be mentioned here that Speed Step Software Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Speed Step.de, is a Germany-based software

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Indian T&C industry needs more knowledge sharing sessions

June 6, 2017, 10:30 pm
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Knowledge Sharing Session.

Garment and textile industry of India has urged the Government to conduct more knowledge sharing programmes. To drive growth, increase technical potential and production efficiencies, revised taxation policies, and other important aspects always demand effective and regular interaction sessions, the industry underlined. Although industry bodies and ministries jointly organize such type of events for the exporters and manufacturers, but still they appear unsatisfied.

Apparel Resources talked to some of the industry player to figure out what exactly the industry is demanding from the Government… Ritu Singh, Operations Manager, Paramount Clothing, Ludhiana, Punjab and Anirudh Lal, Director of Macsam Clothing, Noida say that more sessions should be organized in various parts of the country which will be beneficial for us too. For Ritu, latest updates on taxation policies is the need of the hour. Whereas, C.K. Triumeni, Co-Partner – Abirami Exports feels

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Prabhakar Overseas looking to explore new segments

June 6, 2017, 11:13 pm
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Prabhakar Overseas Collection.

Based in Noida, UP, India, garment exporter Prabhakar Overseas Group also has an office in California too. It is now planning to explore some good opportunities in ethnic wear, footwear and accessories sections. The company is on board with some Pakistani designers to meet the increasing demand of ethnic wear in the US market.

Yogeeta Prabhakar, Managing Director of the company said, “We are all set to venture into the ethnic wear section for our US clients. So, we are trying hard to offer them some good and unique designs as per their requirements. Also, we are entering into footwear and accessories sections with some Italian designers to increase our market reach.”

The 21 years old company, which has its own brand Y&Y New York in the US for men and women, is catering to some of the big players in the market like Jane Ashley, DKNY, H&M,

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