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Texzone Information Services will organise HGH India 2018, India's leading annual trade show for Home Textiles, Home Décor, Gifts & Houseware from July 03-05, 2018 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, India.
The trade show will provide a focused marketing platform for designer, branded and mass produced goods, enabling the sellers to reach out to retailers, distributors and institutional buyers across India.
The products range will include categories like home textiles, furnishing fabrics, home décor products like wall papers, blinds, rugs and floor coverings, fragrances, spa products, handicrafts; houseware products like cookware, tableware, kitchenware, kitchen appliances, cleaning, health & hygiene, storage and outdoor products and a variety of innovative gift products.
The event is expected to be attended by 550 exhibitors from 30 countries
In a recent report on emerging trends in manufacturing, the World Bank has mentioned textiles, garments and leather based industries will continue to be biggest job creators in low and medium industrialised countries like India.
The world bank report cryptically titled ‘Trouble in the Making?’ has cautioned that widespread use of robotics and 3 D printing will cause a disruptive change in the global manufacturing sector and the first casualty will be jobs.
This is of great concern for countries like India where the large mass of low and zero skilled youth joining the job market can only be absorbed in the manufacturing in the low technology sectors.
Although low skill sectors like garments and leather products will remain comparatively immune from the automation wave, a focus to hi – tech manufacturing has overlooked the traditional industries.
Leaders in the apparel-technology segment have elevated their digital solutions to generate realistic patterns, accurate samples and streamline product lifecycle management (PLM).
Recently, Connecticut-based Gerber Technology launched its latest version of AccuMark 3D.
The company, through partnerships with technology companies such as San Francisco–based startup Avametric, wants to digitize vital design resources. With this most recent installment, Gerber Technology has provided a solution that facilitates the process from simple sketches to interaction with consumers.
Every person, through this technology, can contribute to the apparel-making process, easily make detailed changes to digital patterns, illustrating in real time how they can achieve a specific style, without the challenges of shipping patterns or samples.
The exports of Tiruppur Garments shrunk for the first time in the past five years. Exports from the city declined by around 8 per cent to Rs 24,000 crore in 2017-18 .
One of the main reasons for this is the slump in national exports by around 13-14 per cent since October 2018.
The incentive duty drawback scheme available to the exporters was also slashed to 2 per cent from 7.6 per cent in the latter half of the year, which put India at a disadvantage vis-à-vis competing countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Tiruppur accounts for 46 per cent of the total knitwear garment exports from the country. The total knitwear exports from the country too saw a decline last year. But the drop has been more for Tiruppur exports. Delay in refund of GST and state levies is pointed out as another reason for the setback to exports as it crimped the working capital flow.
Mustafa Gültepe. President, The Turkish Association plans to coordinate businesses' recruitment of refugees, from the production process to their social adoption and management of human resources, in order to boost their employment of refugees.
Turkish Association, since 2015 .has been involved in the integration of Syrian refugees to the Turkish workforce. The project will be executed out in 10 cities including Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa.. As a most important sectoral organization with more than 7,000 members representing the Turkish apparel industry, the İHKİB makes significant contributions to the sector and Turkish economy.
Turkey hosts more than 3.5 million refugees from war-torn Syria, the largest Syrian refugee community in the world. The country is praised for its continuous humanitarian aid to displaced Syrians and modern refugee camps in its border cities.
Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recently released the 2018 edition of the Pulse of the Fashion Industry report, an annual in-depth assessment of the fashion industry's environmental and social performance.
According to the report, the pulse score of the fashion industry in the past year improved from 32 to 38 (out of 100), confirming that sustainability is rising on the corporate agenda.
Of the executives polled for the Pulse Survey, 52 per cent reported that environmental and social targets acted as a guiding principle for nearly every strategic decision they made - an increase of 18 percentage points from last year.
Morten Lehmann, Chief Sustainability Officer, GFA, commented, "I'm excited that sustainability finally has been taken out of the lab and into the boardroom. To find out that the topic influences decision-making at a strategic level leaves me with optimism."
The British Fashion Council has recently announced that 39 year-old Stephanie Phair will be its new chair, replacing Dame Natalie Massenet, who stepped down from the role in December.
Phair is the youngest person to ever be appointed into the role and, while her name may be not be as immediately familiar as Massenet’s, her influence in the global fashion industry is not to be underestimated. In fact, you could consider her to be a protege of both the Net-a-Porter founder, and another of fashion’s most powerful businesswomen, US Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Currently the chief strategy officer for Farfetch and an independent board director for Moncler SpA. Phair’s experience covers the realms of fashion business, PR, marketing, technology and entrepreneurialism - a potent mix for someone who is set to lead the sector through an era of fluctuating economic situations and Brexit trade negotiations, and one where the internet is changing the way all types of fashion businesses are run.
Dame Natalie Massenet stepped down as Chairman in December 2017, following a successful five-year term in which she led the organisation to focus its activities through strategic pillars, engage in digital innovation and focus on building the global profile for British fashion.
According to the Association of Exporters (ADEX), textile exports in Peru reached $ 99,685 million between January 2018 and March 2018, an increase of 15.9 per cent, while apparel grew by 7per cent.
The exported goods mostly included cotton T-shirts for men and women, knit shirts for men, baby clothes and others. Exports of the textile-clothing chain reached more than $ 323,788 million in the first quarter of the year, registering an increase of 9.6% over the same period in 2017.
For the first three months, the main destinations for Peruvian Clothing included the United States and Brazil with a growth of 4.5 per cent and 80.3 per cent, respectively. Both countries accounted for 73 per cent of the total exports.
The ranking was followed by Germany, Argentina, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Japan; the countries with declining rates, however, were Chile and Colombia.
During the first quarter Pakistan’s denim apparel exports to the US were up 24.52 per cent.
Denim trouser was the topmost product of all denim apparels exported to the US. Earnings from Men and Boys (MB) denim trousers were up 2.75 per cent. Exports of Women and Girls (WG) denim trousers posted a staggering growth of 40.32 per cent.
On the other hand, denim jackets and skirts could not see any revolutionary turnaround and the shipment values remained considerably low despite seeing some surge over last year’s shipment value.
Earnings from denim jacket exports were up 101.68 per cent whereas earnings from skirts shipment were up 3.54 per cent.
Markedly the surge in denim trouser exports since the start of 2018 is one of the few positives for Pakistan as in the last six years overall textile and apparel exports from the country plunged ten per cent.
Pakistan’s denim industry has crossed a billion dollars. This includes export of denim fabrics and denim garments. Pakistan is the second largest exporter of denim in the world after China.
Pakistan’s denim is on an upward trend, despite the larger textile industry being in trouble. Unlike its regional competitors, Pakistan houses a huge benefit of homegrown cotton which it can exploit.
According to a study by AT Kearney, National Retail Federation, the lack of the North American Free Trade Agreement would cost shoppers $16 billion and result in 128,000 retail jobs being lost.
Many Los Angeles brands manufacture their blue jeans in Mexico and rely on duty-free imports to keep costs down.
According to the study, retailers imported $128 billion worth of merchandise from Mexico and $54 billion from Canada in 2017. Their textiles and apparel imports totaled $4.8 billion from Mexico and $1.3 billion from Canada.
If the United States withdrew from NAFTA, the retail imports would be subject to $5.3 billion in annual tariffs that would most likely be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Food and beverages sold at grocery stores would be the worst affected at $2.7 billion, followed by apparel and footwear at $501 million and household goods at $498 million.
