Price wars, fast fashion, diamond money leads to Surat’s industrial shake-u…
The sound of Surat’s diamond polishing wheels, once the city’s heartbeat, is fading. In its place, the relentless pulse of high-speed water jet looms is taking over. Capital, labor, and the high-octane temperament of diamond trading are migrating into textiles, redefining an indust... Read more
India’s textile market nears Rs 15 lakh cr as domestic demand rewrites grow…
India’s textile and apparel economy is no longer being driven merely by population growth or festive consumption cycles. It is now being powered by a deeper lifestyle-led shift in household behaviour, rising discretionary spending, and the formalisation of multiple apparel use-cases acro... Read more
China Discounts, Bangladesh Bleeds: Inside Europe’s new apparel sourcing cr…
Europe’s fashion imports opened 2026 with a hard jolt. Fresh Eurostat-linked trade data for January shows the European Union’s apparel imports shrinking 15.48 per cent year-on-year to €7.03 billion, a dip sharp enough to redraw sourcing equations from Dhaka to Dongguan. The de... Read more
Geopolitical volatility triggers sharp decline in global textile confidence…
The global textile industry is grappling with a sudden and severe downturn in sentiment as regional conflicts disrupt essential trade routes and energy markets. According to the 37th Global Textile Industry Survey by the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF), the business situa... Read more
India’s legacy buying houses confront existential challenge as FTAs reshape…
The Indian apparel sourcing is being reshaped with a a series of new Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It is changing global retail flows, eroding the traditional value of brokerage-based sourcing and challenging legacy buying houses to redefine their very raison d’être. Experts warn t... Read more
ICRA sees apparel export recovery in FY27 as margin pressure eases, FTAs ga…
India’s apparel export sector is moving out of a year defined by tariff-led disruption and into one shaped by market diversification, FTA-led opportunity and cautious balance-sheet repair. The latest ICRA assessment signals that FY2026 was less a year of decline than one of lower growth,... Read more
Lacoste accelerates performance-led luxury on the F1 fashion circuit
Lacoste has formally extended its ‘track-to-street’ strategy by app... Read more
Bio-based industrialization: Spandex integration reshapes China’s yarn sect…
The Lycra Company and Texhong International Group have entered a strategic part... Read more
Sustainable auxiliaries to drive textile chemicals market to $48 billion by…
The global textile chemicals market is undergoing a structural realignment, wit... Read more
Trident Group’s inclusion strategy earns national recognition amid shifting…
The landscape of Indian industrial manufacturing is undergoing a structural tra... Read more
Industrial-scale circularity: RE&UP and Madewell launch post-consumer d…
The apparel industry is under increasing pressure to move beyond ‘take-ba... Read more
Beyond Yoga reports 23% growth in Q1, FY26 revenues
Levi Strauss & Co (LS&Co.) is successfully transitioning from a pure-pl... Read more