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India’s MG Sons enhances focus on export
Garment manufacturers in India are constantly exploring new avenues in search of opportunities for growth. That includes exploring new markets, be it domestic or international. Ahmedabad-based MG Sons...
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India’s Kashvi Designs brings out new developments
Among the few Indian apparel exporters offering value-added blazers and jackets for the international market, some are aggressive on product development. Noida-based Kashvi Designs, a 12-year-old...
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Kolkata’s Shivam Creative to start kidswear
Among the fast-growing companies, Kolkata-based Shivam Creative is set to expand further in kidswear. Quality leggings is a major product category for Shivam Creative, a sister concern of Enfield...
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Ludhiana’s Pruthi Exports explores new markets
Ludhiana-based Pruthi Exports, a vertically integrated, three-decade-old company, which is known for its kidswear, is now exploring new markets. And for that, the company recently took part in an...
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Bangladesh’s AKH Group opens LEED-certified garment factory
One of the leading apparel manufacturing groups of Bangladesh, AKH Group has recently opened a new factory, which has been awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification by...
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Elite International expanding, setting up new unit
Noida-based Elite International, an exporter of high-fashion womenswear garments, is in the process of expanding and adding a new unit. Currently, the company has two manufacturing units, and is in the...
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Bangladeshi garment makers now prefer warehouses in Bengal over Gujarat
Bangladeshi garment makers, who would earlier set up their warehouses in Gujarat, have shifted their focus to West Bengal. Earlier in June 2015, when Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi visited...
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Karur’s Master Linen Inc targets Rs 100-cr business
Experts in linen fabric, Karur-based company Master Linen Inc that currently has a turnover of Rs 66 crore, is expecting good growth in the coming years. It is now aiming at growing its business to Rs...
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Indonesia’s Sritex to set-up facility in Cambodia
Indonesia-based apparel manufacturer, Sri Rejeki Isman, popularly known as Sritex has recently signed a US $ 50 million-deal with Cambodia’s Interior Ministry to set up a garment manufacturing unit in...
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Cheer Sagar receives National Productivity & Innovation Award
Jaipur-based garment export house Cheer Sagar has once again received the National Productivity & Innovation Award in the Textile and Garment Sector for the year 2014-15. The award, presented by...
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Industry’s wish-list for women in Indian apparel industry
When it comes to women to women, Indian apparel industry has a long-pending list of demands from the government, which include allowing night shifts for women in line with the Tamil Nadu High Court...
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Why are women missing from export promotion councils & associations in India?
Be it an export promotion council relating to textile and apparel industry, like the AEPC, EPCH, or bodies like CMAI, GEA, TEA, Knitwear Club, Ludhiana, GEAR, Jaipur, one would find hardly any women at...
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How do women in apparel industry in India overcome stress?
Apparel exporters in India hardly ever have time to talk, given the pressure of meeting order deadlines or dealing with the tension of slow business. Under such circumstances, how would women get...
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Women in Bangladesh’s RMG sector a motivation for industry
Rokeya Quader, Chairman, Desh Garments; Irene Taludkar, Director, Irene Knitwears; Munazzama Mustari Tania, Director, Musk Sweater Composite; Naseema Akhter, Proprietor, JS Apparels; Neelam Gupta, MD,...
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Meet Bangladesh’s young women entrepreneurs
Bangladesh, being the second largest RMG exporter in the world, is full of opportunities, but also heavy on challenges. There are a few young women entrepreneurs, working hard to prove their mettle in...
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Only 6 out of Top 100 apparel firms have women at their helm! Read on to get...
Only 6 out of Top 100 apparel firms have women at their helm! Shocking figures, certainly. But ironically that's true, even in 21st century India. According to the Apparel Online Annual Top 100 Indian...
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Vanduta Khurana of Daks India to address World Forum on ‘Communication on...
For most Indians, Zurich or Davos are just places noted for world economic forums. But now there is some other, even more exciting reason for us, particularly those in the textile and apparel industry,...
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MAS’s Women Go Beyond benchmark for apparel industry
MAS manufacturing facilities have set and maintained a benchmark in terms of productivity, quality and overall best practices. And that includes how they reward their women workforce for their role in...
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A few, but doing their best in Indian apparel industry
There are over 100 good consultants in India, covering various aspects of the apparel and textile industry, among whom there are only two women operating in the Apparel manufacturing. Pooja Makhija,...
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1st women-run apparel factory in Bamyan
Masoma Alizada has become the first women entrepreneur in Afghanistan to open an apparel factory in the country. Besides, she also runs a store that sells long jackets and embroidered blouses -- for...
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