A cotton factory was gutted by a fire at Upashahar in the city on Tuesday morning. Sub-inspector Rabiul Islam of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station said the fire originated at a room of “Saiful Alam Cotton Factory’’ on the 3rd floor of a building around 9am and it soon engulfed the whole factory. On information, a firefighting unit rushed in and doused the blaze after one hour of frantic efforts with the help of the locals. The reason behind the fire could not be known yet. The extent of

A woman walks past a Bosideng International Holdings Ltd store in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province. Liu Junfeng / for China Daily The increasing cost of down and declining retail sales have brought a hard winter to down jacket producers in 2013, market insiders said. Apparel industry experts said expanding sales channels, especially at online platforms and designs that better cater for consumers' needs, are solutions to regain profitability. Bosideng International Holdings L

Pakistan is the fourth largest producer of cotton after China, India and the United States and has about 8.7% share in world’s cotton production. PHOTO: FILE Agriculture is the most important sector of Pakistan as it provides raw material to the industry and contributes 21.4% to the GDP. It employs 45% of the labour force and is the most important source of foreign exchange earnings. Pakistan is the fourth largest producer of cotton after China, India and the United States and has about 8

Illustrative image (Source: VNA) The General Customs Department reported that by December 15, Vietnam earned 7.9 billion USD from footwear export, 14.9 percent higher than the same period last year. The performance is likely to help the country reach its set export target of 8 billion USD for the product this year. The US remained the key importer of Vietnamese footwear. It purchased 2.3 billion USD over the past 11 months, accounting for more than 30 percent of the country’s total

In the process of industrial upgrading and encouraging technological innovation, the application of genuine information technology (IT) products for improving industry standards is necessary, Sun Rui Zhe, vice president of China Textile Industry Association, said recently at a seminar on “Innovation and Social Responsibility – China’s textile industry, information technology services and fair competition.” Zhe said China's textile and garment enterprises have begun to consider the issue of in

Garment industry, Cambodia's largest foreign currency earner, reported a 22 percent surge in exports in the first 11 months of 2013, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The Southeast Asian nation exported apparel products in equivalent to 5.07 billion U.S. dollars during the January- November period this year, up 22 percent from the 4.15 billion U.S. dollars for the same period last year, the figures showed. Garment products have been mostly sold to the United S

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of the Government of Philippines is seeking duty free access and preferential treatment for garments to be exported to the US, particularly apparel products that are manufactured from areas devastated by the typhoon ‘Yolanda’ (international name ‘Haiyan’). Gregory L Domingo, Secretary of DTI, told reporters that Philippines will ask the US Government to grant duty-free entry for some goods, especially apparel, produced in areas affected by the typhoo

Poor law and order, energy shortage and raw material price fluctuations have pulled down Pakistan''s towel export by over 8 percent in July-November 2013-14 to $289.464 million. The towel exports underwent a stiff phase of recession during July-October this fiscal year, as the manufacturers were unable to increase production because of a number of issues, Chairman Towel Manufacturers'' Association of Pakistan (TMAP)- south zone, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik, told Business Recorder on Saturday. Towel

Pakistan’s export of textile and clothing products witnessed a growth of over six per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal year from a year ago. Export proceeds from these sectors rebounded following a slight deceleration in export of raw cotton and low value-added products in the pervious months, showed data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics here on Friday. In absolute terms, export of textile and clothing reached $5.684bn in July-Nov 2013 from $5.361bn during the correspond

Workers is seen working in a garment The country’s readymade garments saw 40% decline in orders for the spring-winter season as estimated by an industry leader. Orders for the fall season dropped substantially because the global buyers are reluctant to place orders as they lost confidence that the suppliers would be able to meet the shipment deadline due to political unrest, Shahidullah Azim told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. The vice president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Ex