Another victory for luxury labels in the fight against counterfeiting. Gucci America Inc. was recently awarded 144.2 million dollars, equal to 89.2 million pounds, in damages by the federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as well as a permanent injunction against a number of online companies involved in a web-counterfeiting scheme. Gucci filed the lawsuit back in May, accusing the defendants of trademark counterfeiting and ‘cybersquatting.’ The lawsuit was file against 100 businesses, who

A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) proposed between Sri Lanka and China will assist Sri Lanka to develop its garment and handloom textile industries as a way to eliminate poverty in rural areas. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Economic Development of Sri Lanka, A Chinese delegation led by the Deputy International Trade Representative of the Ministry of Commerce of China Yu Jianhua, met with the Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa, at the Ministry in Colombo for discussi

Li Peng Enterprise Co Ltd, which makes nylon products, said yesterday that it will become the world’s largest nylon maker after it completes its expansion to increase capacity by 180,000 tonnes of nylon a year next year. “We are building one more production line, and after the expansion, our capacity will increase to 580,000 tonnes of nylon a year, replacing BASF SE as the world’s largest nylon maker,” Li Peng president Jonathan Lin (林文仲) told reporters yesterday on the

New Zealand Wool Services International Limited’s General Manager, Mr John Dawson reports that today’s North Island sale of 6,600 bales continues the upward trend in the market. We continue to see good clearances at auction with today’s sale seeing a 98 percent sold rate. Fine Crossbred Fleece and Early Shorn gained 1.5 percent with 33.5 to 36 micron, 3/5 inch realising 2.5 percent above last South Island sale. 31 to 34 micron, 3/4 inch rose to 1.5 to 2.5 percent while 32 to 34 micron,

Raffaella Carabelli, President of ACIMIT. ? ACIMITACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, returns to Indonesia with two symposiums presenting Italian textile technology to local textile manufacturers. The industrial areas of Solo and Bandung will host symposiums, organised by ACIMIT and ICE-Trade Promotion Agency, in November. During the event, some of Italy’s leading textile machinery producers will be presenting their latest products to Indonesian textile operato

The head of the Armenian Development Agency (ADA) Robert Harutyunyan told reporters today that Armenia and Argentina may establish a joint textile company in the near future. He said the parties had conducted some talks and are expected to sum up their results in a couple of months. Armenian textile products are already exported to Argentina, but in very small quantities. According to Harutyunyan, the statistics show that exports from Armenia to Argentina are very small, and therefor

The heavy duty on import of textile raw material in Pakistan forces garment makers to use cotton as the core input, said Jawwad A Chaudhry, the newly elected senior vice chairman of Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) upon assuming charge. The PRGMEA senior vice chairman said Bangladesh, which produces no cotton, allows duty-free import of all kind of raw material, which has pushed its value-added textile exports to US$ 26 billion, while Pakistan has y

The imports of cotton by Vietnam in the first nine months of current year have increased by 35 percent year-on-year to 430,000 tons, valued at US$ 864 million, Viet Nam News reported. Vietnam Cotton and Spinning Association (VCOSA) attributed the rise in cotton imports to the increasing demand for cotton by domestic textile and garment companies. VCOSA expects the country’s cotton imports to be in the range of 580,000 to 600,000 tons this year, compared to 420,000 tons of cotton imported l

Disney Consumer Products (DCP) and ABC Family, in collaboration with The Wet Seal Inc., announced a millennial lifestyle brand called ‘Crush by ABC Family.’ This new collection will offer an assortment of apparel and accessory styles wholly inspired by the fashion-forward female characters of popular ABC Family shows. “This collaboration further supports DCP’s goal of engaging licensees to deliver unique product experiences tied to the hottest properties on screen,” said Josh Silverman, execu

10-gruppen specialises in high quality printed textiles with bold contemporary designs. Originating from Sweden, 10-gruppen was established in 1970 by ten young designers who wanted to control the entire production process from preliminary sketch to printed textile. Sharing a common vision in aesthetics and passion for quality apparel, UNIQLO’s collaboration with 10-gruppen brings together the best of Scandinavian and Japanese signature styles and design principles. 10-gruppen presents