After month-long, protracted export reversals, Bangladesh’s export earnings made a rebound this July with around 0.59 per year-on-year growth. As per figures provided by the
country’s Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), in July 2019, Bangladesh’s export earnings were US $ 3.88 billion which in this ... Views: 478
COVID-19 has been having its way since the beginning of its time and among many impacts it had and is having on the economy, on businesses, another noticeable one has been people—both men and women staying at home going through stress, anxiety, and depression. In order to combat this and to keep ... Views: 451
Sustainability, in the Indian textile and apparel industry, is one of the most discussed subjects, but at the same time, it is surrounded by several questions and confusions too. Even today, the majority of owners in the industry are not very well familiar with the concept of sustainability. ... Views: 447
Canada is one of the traditional markets for Bangladesh where the
trade balance is heavily tilted towards the latter with products worth CAN $ 726
million going to Canada in 2019, as per the Canada Bangladesh Chamber of
Commerce and Industry in Bangladesh (CanCham).
As per CanCham, ... Views: 416
In a major development in the area of anti-viral fabric,
Arvind Ltd., a leading textile-to-retail conglomerate in India, has recently collaborated with Swiss Textile Innovator HeiQ to introduce HeiQ Viroblock technology in the country. Arvind will now be able to offer shirting and suiting ... Views: 415
Is working remotely in the fashion industry just a temporary measure or will remain for long? Aida Tagarro, an industry professional from Spain, expresses her views…
“Moving working places from office to home needs a great degree of adaptation too. Home will be a working place to often share ... Views: 413
COVID-19 fallouts are making survival difficult for SMEs. It’s not that things are much different for the bigger players but if industry insiders are to be believed,large garment factories are faring comparatively better when it comes to getting orders owing to their better coping mechanisms ... Views: 412
Winter wasn’t considered a very fashion forward season until the dawn of modish outerwear. With each year getting colder than the previous (a fact that has been corroborated by scientists), shoppers are moving beyond the North Face jackets and home-made pullovers to embrace the cold with their ... Views: 411
The pandemic has taught us many lessons and one of the most important is that the industry, especially the retail industry needs to invest more in technologies to survive in the future.
Over the past 6 months, the digital readiness of the industry has increased to allow the businesses to ... Views: 411
Year 2020 has seen severe impact on apparel business world over due to COVID-19 pandemic which has reduced consumers’ demand and shuddered the profitability of both retailers and manufacturers. However, resilience is something that could be seen in some progressive apparel and textile ... Views: 411
Coconut has been a source of income for many South Indian farmers and dealers, and similarly, is a consumers’ favourite to beat the heat during the worst of summer days. However, many coconuts go waste after each season, owing to either excess of stock or simply because of going stale due to the ... Views: 408
Minus a formal education in design, but with a heart full of passion and a mind bursting with creativity, Zayan Rivaan Bari set to realise his childhood dream of establishing Muze in March of 2017. After a degree in business from Dhaka and an MBA from New York, Zayan returned to Bangladesh to ... Views: 405
With ‘work from home’ gaining worldwide popularity, office dressing has transitioned into more casual styles hailing a new category of ‘homewear’/loungewear. The rise of zoom meetings has resulted in tops outperforming bottoms categories Y-o-Y on a global scale. The closure of gyms and
parks ... Views: 397
Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) recently created a flurry of disbelief with its announcement that the apparel exports from the country will expand by about 40 per cent this fiscal. In an official statement, the Council declared, “AEPC is working with a target to achieve a 40 per cent ... Views: 384
Since the apparel industry is witnessing some major transformations like change in consumer buying behaviour, adoption of online shopping, increase in influencer marketing, etc., the tech solutions also have to be modified to meet the current needs of the industry. Below
are few tech ... Views: 381
Despite being full of negative experiences, for Indian apparel manufacturers, 2020 had few positive aspects also and that too in various directions – be it large scale manufacturing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs); thrust on medical textiles; adoption of quick as well as short-term but ... Views: 380
An ancillary/sister concern of Evince Group, one of the leading and most diversified independent manufacturing conglomerates in the apparel and textile sector in Bangladesh, Evince Retail Limited is credited with introducing two new brands in the country – Miniso Bangladesh and Noir.
Apparel ... Views: 377
Motorcycles today have become more than just a mode of transport. For few, it’s an aspiration, a joy, for others, a sense of liberation, freedom or a part of their personality and style, and many more things. It has become a culture and while this is widespread in the Western countries, it is ... Views: 360