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India’s e-commerce major Flipkart moved a substantial proportion of its manufacturing and sourcing for its in-house brands from China and Malaysia to India over the past year, thereby cutting costs and complying with the government’s Make in India initiative. The move is helping ..

US-based online retail giant Amazon has stepped up its investment in its Indian marketplace and has pumped Rs.2,800 crore into it. The fresh infusion comes at a time when the Seattle-headquartered firm very recently exited from China. The firm had infused Rs.2,200 crore into its Ind..

The first meeting of the Board of Trade and the Council of Trade Development and Promotion, after Piyush Goyal became the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry & Railways, sent a strong message to the industry, especially the exporters. The minister urged the representatives of industr..

Apparel Made-ups and Home Furnishing Sector Skill Council (AMHSSC) has opened its Centre of Excellence (COE) at Delhi. The COE will run 2 to 3 days’ Management Development Programs (MDPs) towards upskilling of supervisors and managerial teams of apparel industry. In order to meet ..

Mufti, one of the country’s leading clothing and fashion brands, recently unveiled its latest ‘Flight Edition’ collection with its brand ambassador Kartik Aaryan at the main atrium of Infinity Mall, Malad with over 2,000 attendees. While Mufti has launched a number of trend..

Indian textile & apparel sector has the vision to become US$ 350 billion industry by 2024-25; however,looking at past few years’performance it seems to be a quite difficulttask. With the strong NDA government back in power, the industry expects to getpolicy support, which is o..

Iconic fashion brand Karl Lagerfeld and the international fast fashion label from Future Group, Cover Story have collaborated to introduce a special edition collection of women’s ready-to-wear and accessories for FW19 and SS20, exclusively in India. Available at select Cover Story stor..

E-commerce giant Flipkart is set to double down on its technology base in Israel after acquiring Upstream Commerce, an Israeli analytics startup which provides automated competitive pricing and product analytics solutions for online retailers, said people close to the development. The firm i..

Pour Femme India is all geared up to tap US $ 10 million turnover target in FY 2020. Started in 2013, Delhi-based apparel brand clocked US $ 2 million in FY 2019 and the aggressive market penetration strategies and the investment coming from stakeholders keep the brands’ owners bullish abo..

A textile store on TD road, near the busy Ernakulam market, was engulfed in flames yesterday morning. Around 10:30am, people first saw the fire at the shop K. V. Babu and Sonsand in no time, the fire fighting team was informed about the incident. Around 12 units of fire tenders were imme..

Annual supplier conferencesor meetsare instrumental in strengtheningmutual relations between global brands, retailers and their suppliers. There is no denying that awardingthebest suppliers remains one of the majorattractionsfor the suppliers, asthese awardsnot only recognise their best practice..

E-commerce platform Snapdeal is close to buying out rival ShopClues in an all-stock deal, two people familiar with the matter said. The due diligence for the acquisition started a few weeks ago and a final decision is still awaited. The on-again off-again talks fell through earlier following dis..

Hummel, the Denmark-based sportswear label, announced its entry into Indian market by signing Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan as Hummel’s chief Ambassador in India. The brand has already opened 5 stores in the cities of Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Surat and Amritsar. The compa..

In what is seen as an effort to promote Indian textile overseas while also strengthen bilateral trade ties, an Indian business delegation comprising representatives of 30 Indian companies under the leadership of the Chairman of the Indian Silk Export Promotion Council Dr. Bimal Mawandia met with..

With the Cricket World Cup 2019 less than 10 days away, leading sportswear brand Puma has launched a limited Collector’s Edition Puma One8 cricket shoes as a tribute to team India’s captain and its brand ambassador, Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli X PUMA Gold Spike 19.1 Collector’..

In India, the promotion of sports is recognised as a CSR activity. Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013, indicates a list of CSR activities, which include ‘training to promote rural sports, nationally recognised sports, paralympic sports and Olympicsports.Despite this,India’s text..

HR Perspective:Archana Tomar Mann, VP, Compliance, CSR, Training & Development, Orient Craft, Gurgaon This issue depends on the systems, and varies from one company to another and even from factory to factory. There are some other factors that too play an important role with this regard...

The Indian fashion retail is noticing a huge demand for knit products with the knitwear market expected to grow at a promising rate of 9 per cent in order to reach US $ 23.56 million from the current market size of US $ 10.04 million. Ludhiana based-Octave Clothing realised the demand for kn..

FabAlley, the online fast fashion apparel brand, has further increased its plus-size collections, which now range from XS to 4XL. The objective of the brand is to offer its curvy customers the same colours, trends, patterns and chic prints that are currently available in standard sizes. Besi..

Allen Solly, India’s pioneer brand from the house of Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd., has launched a new set of trousers that incorporates blends, which provide comfort and mobility. The collection aims at refining the trouser category and has incorporated innov..

British retailer Marks & Spencer has revised its price points for the Indian Market aiming to attract more younger customers. A brand that has catered to consumers for over 35 years, M&S has decided to change the strategies in order to cater to the millennial Indian crowd. India ..

Leading clothing and fashion brand from the house of Credo Brands Marketing Pvt. Ltd., Mufti has added another feather to its cap by winning the Customer Loyalty Initiative of the Year Award at the recently held 8thedition of the Indian Retail Awards 2019. The accolade cements Mufti’s ..

Leading Indian denim manufacturer, Arvind Limited has become the latest to join Fashion for Good, a global initiative that is trying to make fashion more sustainable. Fashion for Good launched in March 2017 by C&A Foundation, the corporate foundation affiliated with global retailer C&..

Continuously increasing minimum wage has becomean issue for Indian apparel manufacturers, especially when controlling cost is one of the biggest focusesfor the industry. From 1stApril, 2019 units in Uttar Pradesh are bound to give new increased minimum wage which is actually increased due to..

Working for a fairer, safer, more transparent fashion industry, Fashion Revolution, the annual global campaign challenges global brands to demonstrate transparency in their supply chains. It has taken first step towards transparency by answering one simple question #WhoMadeMyClothes. In Indi..

From a 25,000-spindle unit in 2000 to a textile conglomerate comprising 11 units with a capacity of 150,000 spindles, 6,000 open-end rotors and 50 circular knitting machines now. This is the incredible growth of S.T. Cottex Exports Pvt. Ltd., Ludhiana. Today, the company manufactures 100% cotton..

India is increasingly becoming a retail magnet for leading fashion brands across the world. According to McKinsey Fashionscope, more than 300 international brands are expected to open stores in the next two years. Factors like rapidly growing middle-class, increasingly powerful manufactu..

Among the estimates of decade’s lowest cotton production in the coming season, its increasing price has become a reasonof worry, for many. In the last one month, there is almost 5 per cent increase in the cotton’s price. According to a news report byThe Hindu, a leading English daily..

Birla Cellulose, the pulp and fibrebusiness of India’s conglomerate Aditya Birla Group,is supporting various textile clustersacross India. Recently the textile giant started this initiative in Salem (Tamil Nadu). Nowsimilar efforts are being takenat Bhagalpur (Bihar) known for its years-ol..

India’s leading textile manufacturer and fashion retailer Raymond Group has collaborated with conglomerate Reliance Industries to launch an eco-friendly range of fabrics termed as Ecovera. The fabric has been produced using Reliance’s R|Elan Green Gold fibre which is described as the..

There is now one more reasonIndian apparel manufacturersshould worry about. Cotton production in Indiaisestimated to fall heavily as Cotton Association of India (CAI) has released its March estimate of the cotton crop for the season 2018-19 beginning from 1st October 2018. ..

De-Brands app, an new sourcing platform has been launched that brings buyers and suppliers in the denim and sportswear supply chain together. Developed to bridge the gap between both sides of the supply chain, the app claims to help reduce the cost and time of sourcing and marketing. Sandeep..

The Indian government recently announced three major decisions like new scheme for Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies on the export of garments and made-ups; scheme for development of knitting knitwear sector; and reduction in Hank Yarn Obligation from 40 per cent to 30 per cent of the..

MUFTI – India’s largest denim brand has unveiled its Spring Summer 2019 collection. Dubbed ‘Floral by MUFTI’, the collection features summery floral and leaf print patterns, clean cuts, easy flowing, breathable and value added fabrics. The Floral collection is..

Indian retail sector is on a growth path and catering to its overwhelming demands call for a lot, the first and foremost of which is understanding the requirements. Aimed to answer all the relevant queries and to get a better perspective of the Indian fashion retail scen..

Over 200 female garment employees of Texport Apparels at Peenya are on a five-day strike against their general manager and some others for allegedly physically assaulting, intimidating, and outraging a 36-year-old colleague, Pramila Ramesh, on March 12. In the afternoon of the incident, ..

Ramco Fabrics, a division of Rajapalayam Mills Ltd. and part of Ramco Group, has announced to set up a yarn dyeing and weaving plant in Rajapalayam in Tamil Nadu in order to produce dyed Greige Fabric. P.R Venketrama Raja, Chairman, Ramco Group stated that, “As part of the forward inte..

A part of the Spanish Inditex Group – Zara – is all geared up to launch its first capsule collection of denim customisation pop-ups, which is available for purchase from 27 March 2019. The customers will be able to embroider their names onto denim clothing, in its three stores of..

KG Fabriks Ltd. (a unit of Sri Kannapiran Mills Limited) has been awarded the first prizein National Water Awards2018. It received the honourin Industrial Water Conservation by Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, India. “The entire credit here goes ..

ITL Intelligent Label Solutions has partnered with Poppy’s Knitwear Pvt Ltd to set-up of an ITL service bureau within Poppy’s Tirupur manufacturing plant. The facility, which will have the capability to produce rotary printed care labels, heat transfers, variable data labels incl..

The Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has urged the government to extend the Integrated Goods And Services Tax (IGST) exemption period for import of capital goods under Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) scheme beyond March 31, 2019, for another two years. The association also wants ..