The Rajasthan Cotton Fab, an exhibition of handlooms and handicrafts from all over India being held at the Kandamkulam Jubilee Hall here, is offering a golden opportunity for the shopaholics in the city to choose from a wide variety of products such as kantha sarees, khadi sarees, chanderi silk cotton sarees, gagra choli and dhabu block-printed saree. What makes this 17-day exhibition that commenced on May 31 different is that it features the variety of the ethnic Indian fabric. The exhibition

Ministry of textile witnessed 27 per cent growth in cotton production of SindhThe production of cotton in Sindh scaled up notably by 725,468 million bales or 27 percent, i.e., from 2.68 million bales to 3.4 million bales in the current fiscal year 2013.According to grower this increase is due to use of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) seeds. “The use of Bt cotton seeds helped the province to produce higher quantity of cotton this year,” said Ramzan Chandio, a cotton grower in Mirpur Khas. An official

China, the world's largest second-largest cotton importer, has sold 2.5 million tonnes of the fibre from state reserves so far in the current marketing year, a trade body said on Friday, as it looks to offload close to half its swollen stockpiles. Beijing, which has amassed some 10 million tonnes of cotton stocks under a controversial policy to support farmers, has said it would sell a total of 4.5 million tonnes by the end of July. Although traders had feared the inflow of state stocks could

New Zealand Wool Services International Limited’s General Manager, Mr John Dawson reports that the 7,000 bales on offer in the South Island saw firm to dearer prices locally mainly due to the weaker New Zealand dollar compared to last sale on 30th May. Additionally, the inter-Island wool variation with the South Island types which are better grown this season compared to their North Island counterparts, has added extra pressure on these limited volumes with 90 percent sold. The weighted i

India's apparel exports fell 5.76 percent to $12.92 billion in 2012-13 due to the slowdown in Europe and the US. The recent fall of the rupee against the dollar has brought more smiles to the faces of India's apparel exporters who have been upbeat over rising consumer confidence in the US, one of the major export destinations. India's apparel exports fell 5.76 percent to $12.92 billion in 2012-13 due to the slowdown in Europe and the US, which together account for more than 65 percent of Ind

Weavers and textile processors in Surat are looking forward to an increase in consumption of man-made fibre (MMF) in the domestic market at a compounded annual growth rate of 5.2 per cent till 2015-16. A recent industry research report says that factors like rise in disposable income, growing consumer class, rising urbanization, increasing retail penetration and limited supply of cotton is set to increase the share of MMFs like polyester and viscose in the market in the next four years. The s

Menswear firm Moss Bros has seen how a strong online push helped lift sales and profits after a week start to the year for the menswear retailer. Online sales accounts for 3.3 percent of its total sales, up from 1.4 percent on a yearly basis. Suits and formal attire retailer has launched its new retail website in last January, seeing an impressive jump of online sales of 138 percent year-on-year in the 18 weeks from the end of January to the start of June. The online sales push boosted like-fo

American Apparel has announced that its preliminary sales for the month ended May 31, 2013 were 55.6 million dollars, an increase of 13 percent over the prior year period. Comparable sales increased 10 percent, which included a 7 percent increase in comparable store sales in the retail store channel and a 37 percent increase in net sales in the online channel. Wholesale net sales increased 22 percent for the month of May on a year-over-year basis. “May represents our 24th consecutive month of p

Celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee came full circle today with a ceremony at Westminster Abbey to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. It was the first time that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to the Abbey since their wedding and, given the significance of today’s ceremony, the entire royal family was in attendance. We’re not going to lie: we were really hoping to see the royals dressed in traditional ermine robes and elaborate jewellery. (That Diamond Diade

The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia have grown by 17.5 percent year-on-year to reach US$ 1.34 billion during the first three months of the current year, data released by the Ministry of Commerce shows. Since Cambodia depends on imports for textile raw material to stitch apparels, the imports of textiles and garments by the country during January to March 2013 rose by 18.3 percent year-on-year to US$ 753 million. The robust growth in both imports and exports of textiles and g