majority of the consumers across the five largest EU markets expect fashion brands to be more transparent by sharing detailed information, says a research. The shoppers want to know more about the social and environmental impacts of their garments when shopping for clothes, and they want the brands and governments to be doing more to address these issues. When it comes to buying clothes, more people care about workers being paid fair, living wages and environmental protection than they do abo

The world’s biggest footwear park will be developed at Kharkhoda in Sonepat district of India’s Haryana state, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced recently after inaugurating a skill development and quality control centre at the footwear park in Bahadurgarh. The centre, set up at a cost of ₹25 crore, will train people in footwear manufacturing. More than 600 plots will be allotted in the Kharkhoda footwear park that will cover 900 acres. Five acres will be allotted for a skill

The MG Community Skill Development & Training Centre in Oyan village in East Siang district of India’s north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh has been recognized by the Silk Mark Organisation of India under the Central Silk Board (CSB) of the ministry of textiles. The centre can now use the ‘silk mark’ on its 100 per cent natural clothes. The CSB organisation controls quality of silk products in the country. Set up in July 2014, the training centre has been conducting skill develop

The Indian textiles and apparel industry is showing signs of recovery after a difficult period, according to the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI). Textile and apparel exports stood at ₹20,353 crore during October 2018 as compared to ₹14,779 crore during the same month of the last year, showing an impressive growth of 38 per cent. Apparel exports grew by a whopping 54 per cent during the month to ₹8,327 crore from ₹5,402 crore in October 2017, CITI said c

Apurba Banerjee/Courtesy: brrr US company Brrr°’s chief scientist Apurba Banerjee was recently elected to serve in several leadership positions of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colourists (AATCC). Banerjee was named vice chair of the C3 technical committee on research (TCR), chair of the yarn and other substrate committee and vice chair of the young professionals committee. The position of TCR vice chair is often a pathway to serving on the association’s executive committ

Courtesy: Centric Software VT Garment, an outdoor and sports apparel manufacturer in Thailand, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, and consumer goods companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Like many manufacturers, VT Garment began looking for a PLM solution in response to increasing pressure to speed

Sri Lanka was last month chosen for the global launch of the Social and Labour Convergence Project (SLCP), the country’s Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF), the first industry body to be a signatory of the project launched in 2016, announced. SLCP aims to develop a unified and effective industry-wide assessment framework within the apparel and footwear industry. The framework would reduce the audit fatigue of handling multiple audits and unlock resources like time, energy and money tha

The Indian government should begin negotiation and enter into a free trade agreement (FTA) with Russia, so as to reap the benefit of potential market at the earliest, Tiruppur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has said. Since Russia imports more winterwear, Indian manufacturers should also concentrate on producing such synthetic based products. “Russia has already given a green signal to our competing country Bangladesh for import of garments duty free and this would help them to increase their ex

India will soon unveil a new industrial policy that may include a dedicated chapter on design, according to Ramesh Abhishek, secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), which floated a policy draft in August 2017 to create jobs for the next 20 years, promote technology transfer and attract $100 billion foreign direct investment annually. The proposed policy will completely revamp the Industrial Policy of 1991. Highlighting the significance of design and inn

As many as 95 per cent of British people feel that shopping centres should cater for all shoppers and provide an accessible environment, according to a research from Hammerson, the UK’s leading owner and manager of flagship retail destinations. The research finds that 90 per cent believe that shopping centres are important for carers and disabled consumers. Sixty seven per cent of carers say that shopping helps them to feel part of the community (versus a national average of 55 per cent), an