Garment exporters in Tirupur feel the heat of US slump


Hindu Business Line, India
L.N. Revathy

Coimbatore, Jan. 5 Knitwear garment exporters in Tirupur are in a fix, caught between not getting any support from the Government’s second stimulus package and orders literally drying up.
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American Textile Co. aids Komen fund


Home Textiles Today, NY
Duquesne, Pa. – Basic bedding manufacturer American Textile Company raised $87,000 in 2008 in support of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure national foundation, its Pittsburgh affiliate and related breast cancer research and awareness programs, the company said.
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Chinese garment exporter recollects hard experience


Xinhua, China -
By Xinhua writer Wu Qi

BEIJING, Jan.4 (Xinhua) — Zheng Jianpei, a garment exporter in South China’s Guangdong Province, could not idle about, although people across the country were decorating their houses with lanterns and streamers to celebrate the New Year.
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Upstate textile mills can start tapping federal cash


Greenville News, SC
By Rudolph Bell • BUSINESS WRITER • December 31, 2008
Companies eligible for aid to pay for upgrades to their plants and equipment
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Wyoming sees benefits in new prison garment shop


The Associated Press

By MATT JOYCE – 2 days ago

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Richard Edwards hunched over a sewing machine and stitched a pocket onto a new shirt, one of many to pass through his hands on a recent workday.
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FTA with Japan comes as boon for textile & garment exporters


Fibre2fashion.com, India
A free trade agreement which was signed last week with Japan is expected to come as a boon to Vietnamese exporters in these difficult times. At a press conference to announce the pact, Phan Rue, head of the Vietnamese delegation at the talks said that this agreement will offer both countries opportunities to increase their bi-lateral trade.
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Wyoming penitentiary opens garment factory


LocalNews8.com, ID
RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming State Penitentiary has opened a new garment factory with the goal of putting inmates to work and making the state’s prison industries self-sustaining.

About 30 inmates work in the 7,800-square-foot factory that opened last month.
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Add comment December 29th, 2008

Local garment importers victimized by Chinese remittance fraudsters


eTaiwan News, Taiwan
More than 10 local garment stores have suffered combined losses of NT$50 million (US$1.51 million) as a result of remittance fraud committed by a Chinese brokerage firm known to them as Guangda Co., the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said yesterday.
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Textile industry loses clothes to economic slowdown


Hindu, India
New Delhi (PTI): Indian textile was expected to clothe the world when export quotas were torn off three years ago, but far from giving the world its elaborate robe the industry was stripped naked in 2008 by the economic slowdown
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B2b Garments And Jewelry Markets


Meadow Free Press, ID
An online B2B trade typically refers to trade between the manufacturer and the distributor and the distributor and the retailer of merchandise. The contact between supplier and buyer is usually established online, particularly in B2B markets or B2B networking sites.
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