Millions of women would like to thank it for its support over the years - the bra.
In fact, this piece of intimate apparel has been in women’s lives for a century.
Figleaves.com is celebrating this unmentionable’s milestone by teaming with luxury British brand Mimi Holliday to create a vintage-style lingerie collection.
The bra has a come long […]
Delta Apparel Inc., which makes T-shirts, tank tops, and sweatshirts, on Friday lowered its full-year 2007 guidance, saying price cutting on its T-shirts and manufacturing problems are expected to shave its results.
The company expects fourth-quarter earnings of 50 cents to 55 cents per share, on revenue of $100 million to $106 million. In the prior […]
Adjustable-height chairs with ergonomically curved seats can significantly reduce neck and shoulder pain in garment workers, according to a new study in the April 20 issue of Spine.
The study shows that chair design affects neck and shoulder pain among garment workers — and possibly in other laborers engaged in visually intensive manufacturing work, the researchers […]
Spokesmen for the Vietnamese garment industry, along with their customers in the US, voiced their concerns over US Department of Commerce monitoring of textile and apparel imports from Viet Nam, in a hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
US monitoring of Vietnamese garment imports was discriminatory and undercut fundamental guiding principles of the WTO, argued Nguyen […]
Pakistan’s textile exports crossed the US$8 billion mark, registering a growth of 7 per cent during first nine months (July-March) of the current fiscal year (2006-07), according to official statistics on Saturday.
According to statistics, textile exports remained at $8.027 billion during nine months of the current fiscal year were higher by $525.682 million against $7.501 […]
Chairman of the cotton textiles export promotion council (Texprocil) Prem Malik today said soaring of the Rupee to its highest level at Rs 40.66 per dollar, which has a direct bearing on export realisation, was contributing to a slowdown in exports.
Talking to reporters, Mr Malik said the profit margins in textiles and garment exports are […]
The Mascot Vietnam invested by Denmarkâs leading workwear manufacturer Mascot has broken ground for the construction of a textile factory and a bonded warehouse at an investment of US $7 million in northern Hai Duong province.
The factory in Tan Truong industrial zone is expected to be operational in January 2008.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony on […]
International Textile Group Inc. said it plans to open four manufacturing plants offshore by early 2008.
The company, based in Greensboro, makes automotive safety textiles, denim and other apparel fabrics, government uniforms, and products for technical and specialty-textile markets.
ITG plans to open two plants in China and a plant in Nicaragua and Vietnam. The combined […]
The textile industry, one of the largest employment generators in India, has reported a 6.3 per cent dip in exports growth due to rupee appreciation.
Apparel Export Promotion Council(AEPC) Chairman Vijay Agarwal expressed his concerns over the appreciation in the value of rupee in a letter issued to the Textile, Commerce and Finance Ministers.
”Export receipts […]
Determined to revive the comatose textile industry, Federal Government announced yesterday that it has approved a new N80 billion fund for on lending to the operators and farmers. This is addition to the N50 billion earlier approved by the Federal Government for the same cause.
This came also as the Ministry of Commerce and Industry disclosed […]
Indonesia`s textile and garment exports in the first quarter of 2007 rose 17.5 percent from the same period in 2006 apparently due to restrictions the US imposed on import of similar goods from China, an industry spokesman said.
The US was the largest market for Indonesian textiles and garments with exports to that country econtributing US3.1 […]
The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) may commence construction work at the Naidupet Textile Park project site in the next two months, said Dr K. Selvaraju, Secretary-General of SIMA here on April 23.
Mr. Selvaraju told that the units are likely to start functioning by the year-end.
SIMA ‘ll envisage total investments to the tune of Rs […]