Club goes with iconic red design for the 2013-14 season. This season Al Ahli FC will play in an iconic red kit that proudly displays their style. Dubai’s leading football club's home jersey is classic red with white cuffs and features a modern white neckline placket. Colored stripes on the shorts and socks correspond with the jersey’s cuffs to create a complete look. Proudly positioned on the chest, the Red Knights’ crest adds the ultimate touch of pride. Established in 1970, it showcases

Devising measure to boost exports from country, the apex apparel exports body Tuesday urged Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, to give supports like duty credit scrip at the rate of 5 percent and Market Linked Focus Product scheme may be increased to from 2 percent to 3 percent. "The garment industry could achieve USD 12.92 bn exports in 2012-13 and modest 13 percent growth in April-July, 2013 due to Policy Support given by Government," Chairman, Apparel Export Promotio

In June, the MQ Board of Directors appointed Christina St?hl as the company’s new CEO with the anticipated date for taking office being during the autumn. Christina St?hl took up her new position in the past few days and is now leading the operations from MQ’s head office in Gothenburg. “We are delighted that Christina is already installed and ready to lead MQ’s operations. Her energetic leadership, excellent experience of the retail sector and track record of achieving earnings improvements

The International OEKO-TEX Association’s Dr. Sam Moore, who represents OEKO-TEX in North America, will present a webinar introducing the new OEKO-TEX STeP certification system for sustainable textile production facilities on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, at 2:00 PM EST. The webinar is complimentary and participants can register online in advance. Because of OEKO-TEX’s Elite Sponsor status and the apparel industry’s high level of interest in textile sustainability, the American Apparel and Foot

Textile Exchange is excited to announce the release of the second bundle of chemical snapshots. This new group of Snapshots is designed to complement the first series of snapshots released in April 2013. This bundle expands the collection to include more of the chemicals that leading textile, apparel, and footwear supply chain partners are paying attention to in manufacturing processes. Included in this offering are: Azo Dyes, Chlorobenzenes, Chlorophenols, Formaldehyde, Halogenated Flame

Bangladesh’s export of apparel products to India rose by about 37% to US$75m in the fiscal year 2012-13 thanks to duty-free and quota-free access of some textile products into Indian market. The earnings increased from $55m in the fiscal 2011-12, after India offered the tariff concession to 46 textile products of greatest sensitivity from September 2011. In the last fiscal year, Bangladesh exported knitwear worth over $14m, an increase of about 12% compared to the previous fiscal year’s value

Fashion Upcycled - an initiative aiming to reuse excess raw materials from fashion designers' was announced at Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013. Amongst the many designers who have signed up to support this cause, Anita Dongre, Nishka Lulla and Payal Singhal launched this initiative along with Mana & Suniel Shetty of Save The Children India, Saket Dhankar of IMG Reliance and Poornima Lamba of Lakmé, at Lakmé Fashion Week Winter Festive 2013. The designers showed their support and

Some of Japan’s leading garment brands are moving their manufacturing supply bases out of China and into Southeast Asian countries and other areas. AOYAMA plans to establish its first directly managed plant in Indonesia during 2014, with the capacity to produce 140,000 male suits in the first year. SANYO will significantly increase its output in Cambodia. AOYAMA claims they will reduce the percentage of its clothing produced in China from 70% to 50% before the end of 2014. UNIQLO is expected

Turkey has a long history of textile production, dating back to the early Ottoman period. Its production capacity is mainly due to the abundance of cotton in the area. Today the textile industry is one of the most important components of the Turkish economy, with an export value of $8bn. It is the eight biggest exporter in the world, with a share of 3.7% in 2011 and is second in the EU with a share of 16.8% in 2012. Turkey is the fourth in terms of spinning capacity in the world and in t

A Wage settlement between the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) members and clothing sector employers could be expected soon, the union said on Monday. "As at lunchtime today (Monday), four out of the six employer associations ... have provided the union with firm commitments to settle on our terms," Sactwu general secretary Andre Kriel said in a statement. "The remaining two employer associations have today requested more time to seek a revised mandate." Last week