Posted by: site07 on: April 17, 2009
After several years of successful collaboration, the Lafuma Group has sold the Millet brand in Korea to its licensee Edelweiss.
The transaction totaled 5.8 million euros. Sales achieved under the Millet license for Korea in 2008 stood at 6.2 million euros.
The deal is the logical outcome of a successful partnership in developing the Millet brand in Korea, for a long-term perspective. The agreement also provides for continued technological collaboration and a commitment by Edelweiss to maintain the technical and high-end brand positioning.
The Lafuma and Edelweiss groups also remain bound by a licensing agreement for China signed in January 2008.
This sale falls in line with the Lafuma strategy of furthering debt reduction by selling off assets that are not strategic or that are held in countries where the Group does not have the vocation to create a direct set-up.
Moreover, the Group has signed a loan agreement with its banks for its summer campaign and negotiations are underway for the reorganization of its mid-term debt.
As a reminder to shareholders, the Annual General Meeting will be held on March 19, 2009, at 11am, in the Group office, 5 rue de La Terrasse in Paris (17th arrondissement).
Posted by: site07 on: April 17, 2009
Crossroads Trading Co., a leading recycled clothing company based in Berkeley, has long been one of the best-kept secrets of stylish and fashionable women and men on a tight budget. Recently, the company has gained even more popularity and is now seeing an upswing in business as secondhand fashion gains new acceptance in a changing economic climate.
Crossroad Trading Company’s 24 stores offer shoppers the ability to sell their gently used clothing for cash or trade credit at any of its stores. Its focus on buying current, gently used in-season attire means that the inventory often includes name brands like Gap, Banana Republic, Marc Jacobs, Betsey Johnson, Ben Sherman, Juicy Couture, Prada and Coach, all available for a fraction of original retail cost.
“There is a newfound interest not only in secondhand fashion, but recycling in general,” said Erin Wallace, Operations Manager for Crossroads. “By shopping at Crossroads, our customers can save money and feel good knowing they are keeping clothing out of landfill. These two benefits give us an edge in the current retail environment.”
Crossroads Trading Company (crossroadstrading.com) has been buying, selling and trading clothing in a friendly, fun and fashionable atmosphere since 1991. The winner of more than 40 “Best-Of” awards, the company is recognized for the high quality of recycled merchandise it sells. Its 24 retail locations span throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Chicago.
Posted by: site07 on: April 15, 2009
In the grips of a recession, it’s important that staff feel valued, confident and motivated to perform to optimum levels. One way of ensuring this is to provide comfortable, fit-for-purpose work clothing.
In customer-facing scenarios, corporate clothing also brings the benefit of brand reinforcement, whilst employees involved in work that is in any way hazardous must be provided with suitable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), a market sector that is populated by EU directives and legislation.
Show Description
Now in it’s second year, The Workwear and Corporate Clothing Show (NEC, 1 & 2 April) covers all aspects of working wardrobes, from the garments themselves and the accessories (those comfortable Crocs can now be bought for business purposes), to the hi-tech fabrics and other components of the garments, the systems used to store and distribute the clothing, laundering, identification (badges) and much, much more.
Exhibitor Profile
With over 70 exhibitors (a 20% increase on 2008) the event will showcase a range of names in the corporate clothing industry including Arco, CAT Apparel, CORDURA Fabric, Crocs, Engel Workwear, Helly Hansen, incorporatewear, Prêt Apparel, Russell Europe, Skechers, Syscom plc, Thomas Fattorini and William Sugden and Sons Limited.
Visitors will be able to see the latest garments both on the stands and in the catwalk show, learn of the latest services and gain the latest industry knowledge from the show’s own conference, which focuses on sustainability.
Posted by: site07 on: April 7, 2009
The textile and garment sector across the globe is going through one of its worst phases in history. Exports from the sector are dwindling with each passing month and the reprieve does not seem to be in sight in the near immediate future.
In our continuing series to bring to our readers, the impact of the crisis on textile and garment enterprises of different countries, Fibre2fashion spoke to the young and dashing director of Swano Textile, Mr Shariq Eqbal, to know the about the effects of this crisis on the sector in Pakistan.
Swano textile is a manufacturer and exporter of Bottomwear and Outerwear and its factory is located in the 100 percent export oriented Karachi Export Processing Zone. Among the products it manufactures are Denim, Twills and Canvas in regular stretch & technical weave.
The garment manufacturing factory is spread out over 20,000 sq feet and equipped with the latest in denim washing, sewing and embroidery machinery and has the capacity to rollout 60,000 pieces of garments in a month and works under strict quality norms.
We started off the interview by asking Mr Eqbal, as to how he would describe the current scenario of the industry in Pakistan, to which he said, “Presently, textile industry is under tremendous pressure because of poor economic situation in US & European markets in particular. Pakistan is also suffering immensely due to energy crisis as well as political instability”.
Next we asked him his opinion on the steps the sector should take to fight the recession, to which he replied by saying, “Industry at large should try to reduce the cost of production as much as possible in order to offer attractive price to the end consumer for increasing their buying power in this recession period”.
We ended the interview by asking him his future plans related to expansion or otherwise to which he optimistically replied by saying, “Textile sector is always optimistic in expansion depending on the demand situation and we are definitely geared up to increase additional production lines if there is a need”.
Posted by: site07 on: April 7, 2009
Fiji’s TCF industry is working hard to maintain existing export business in this tough economic climate. Customers in Australian and New Zealand are not giving firm production plans and those that have are reducing their requirements. Reasons given include uncertain market conditions, reducing inventory, and lower demand. They are also not entertaining any price increases.
Most factories in Fiji are struggling to keep a full working week with many resorting to different measures such as stopping recruitment/replacement, working 4-day week and in most severe cases, laying-off staff. It is estimated that between 150-200 additional jobs have been lost since February this year, and an estimated 2000 workers are on reduced working hours.
The general feedback from factories on outlook for next 12 months was that the future was uncertain and they were working hard to keep existing business. It is very difficult to find new business in export markets due to reduced demand and confidence.
The situation has not been helped by countries such as China and Bangladesh giving huge incentives such as export rebates, tax-free incentives to boost their TCF exports. Locally, Fiji’s TCF industry’s competitiveness has been hampered by increasing wages without productivity gains, poor telecommunication, and high comparative freight costs.
In addition, unfair export market access has also hindered new business development. The TCF Council of Fiji has been actively working with its members and relevant institutions including Fiji government, FTIB, RBF, and others to see what can be done to help the Industry get through these tough times. To think that the global crisis won’t affect the sector is ignorant and foolish because it is already upon the industry.
Posted by: site07 on: April 2, 2009
Wellington Custom Fabrics announced today the triumphant completion of its mostly year of market underneath new ownership and the appointment of Stacey Richmond as General Manager effective December 1, 2008. Last year, Wellington Custom Fabrics announced its acquisition by Boyd Technologies, a South Lee, Massachusetts based management company
the current runs specialty resources converter/distributors and markets the breakthrough technologies so use folks materials.
“Getting to recognize the market has carried on incredible for us more than the survive year,” assumed Stephen Boyd, President of Boyd Technologies. “Ensuring the deed of our people through high class resources and ideal in quality purchaser aide is our total number one priority,” he added. Wellington Custom Fabrics is a master converter/distributor of apparel accessories, its required focus is the embroidery backing market.
As a stage towards new raise
Wellington has appointed its own veteran of the industry, Stacey Richmond, as the Company’s new General Manager, effective immediately. “It is an honor to come up with the current position to Stacey,” believed Dennis Martin, President of Wellington Custom Fabrics. “She is a leader in our industry and has been heard a superstar for the duration of the go on year,” he added. According to Michael Covell, the Director of Human Resources at Boyd Technologies, the Company measured for the duration of 16 steady candidates for the position and Richmond was the shocking first and foremost option by the Boyd Technologies management team.
Stacey Richmond was some as General Manager as of her knowledge of the embroidery market, good client relationships, and tacit knowledge of Wellington Custom Fabrics. Richmond acknowledged, “It’s an astounding instant for me and the business, below Boyd Technologies we are positioned to swell the arena in a the best way the present is ongoing in on the price levels Mr. Kurtz depleted to enhance our foundation.”
Charlie Kurtz purchased Wellington to Boyd Technologies in January 2008. Martin added, “Promoting internal champions such as Stacey is at which our affluence comes from.” “This is a top notch association that permits considerable option for managers want Stacey to rise on both a individualized and specialized level,” he concluded.
Wellington represents the gold conventional for above the usual valuable embroidery backing and better in value buyer service. “At Wellington, we can identify the importance of quality, that is why our backing equipment undergo the several continual distribution of fibers in the world permitting embroiderers to pull off the finest garment consistency with such a embroidery design or logo,” declared Richmond. “We additionally suffer the shortest trigger times in the world and repeatedly keep competitory through our pricing,” Richmond believed amongst a smile.
Posted by: site07 on: April 2, 2009
Computers are now becoming more prominent in embroidery. According to estimates, a computerized embroidery machines can generate income of over RMB50,000 per year.
Workers are facilitated by real time display of operations on the screens of these machines. Moreover, workers have to only insert fabrics in the machine and rest of the production process is taken over by the machine.
With embroidery on the pure fabrics, price can reach above RMB10 per meter and even higher.
Posted by: site07 on: March 31, 2009
D’COT – A retail division of Donear industries limited is one of the fastest retail chains in India to expand its network rapidly in a very short span of time. D’COT which started with just 20 stores in October 2007 has become 150 stores now.
D’COT- an Exclusive Top Value Fashion Retail Brand is a complete fashion house for men with its choicest & trendiest yet affordable stylewear. It offers fashion solutions with the latest trends in its range of products consisting of: Shirts, Trousers, Denims, T – shirts along with various accessories like handkerchiefs, neckties, socks etc.
The rising fashion trends and the need to provide affordable quality stylewear necessitated Donear Industries Ltd. to launch D’COT.
A mid-priced retail brand, D’COT has conveniently & successfully adopted the Discount Value Retail Format with various attractive schemes & offers round-the-year…D’COT certainly gives the best value for money to all its customers
With its presence in 10 states viz Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Punjab, Haryana, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh & Uttranchal, D’COT is expanding its presence in every Tier II & Tier III cities in India.
Mr. Sapan Surekha, President of D’COT added “It has an extensive expansion strategy of growing to 200 stores by the end of this fiscal year and become 500 stores in the coming 2-3 years”
D’COT being a stylish stylewear brand has signed the dynamic cricketer…Yuvraj Singh to endorse its brand. Yuvraj known for his fearless and record-breaking cricketing antics truly represents D’COT’. D’COT is promoted heavily through electronic (TV) and newspaper media in all over India.
D’COT is backed with strong support of Donear Industries Limited, a 200 crore company. DONEAR with its three decades of expertise in the textile industry is a reputed and fastest growing fashion fabric brand creating a wide variety of exotic; SUITINGS, TROUSER & SHIRTING FABRICS, Donear also set up Cotton Textile Plant in Surat.
Posted by: site07 on: March 30, 2009
Who doesn’t like the striking embroidery clothes? Quality is the thing which should be highly concerned in every embroidery design whether small or large. Quality issues should be take care of in every phase of the designing from creating, positioning to developing the final design on the fabric.
We start it from the designing, while choosing a design takes care of the type of the dress in which you are going to utilize it.
The design that you may have selected can be in any format. As most of the embroidery work is done with the help of the computerized embroidery machines you need to first check out the file formats that are accepted by your embroidery machine. If your embroidery design format is the one which is accepted by the embroidery machine then its ok otherwise you need to take the help of conversion software to convert it into other format.
Perfect color combination is important. Color of the different threads should be well suited on the fabric. The quality and color of the fabric matters a lot in this regard. Use the contrasting colors according to the shades of the fabric. Make a single design in many color combination it gives you a chance to select the one which suits the best in comparison with others.
The quality of the thread impacts on the overall design. Always use the best quality of thread. Lower quality threads affect the appearance of the design and also they may start breaking from different ends in first or second wash.
Final Digitizing should be done perfectly, use the most appropriate software for digitizing the embroidery design. Make this confirm that your shape does not crop up tiny while digitizing the image.
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Posted by: site07 on: March 24, 2009
The UK’s leading clothing and textile suppliers’ forum, ASBCI, is delighted to announce the launch of its Clothing Industry Handbook 2009. It is the first handbook of its type written specifically for suppliers’ across the global clothing chain.
In addition to information on the ASBCI, its news and events, the handbook contains topical ‘advisory’ features, written by industry experts, that offer suppliers’ advice on subjects that include an update on the latest ‘European care label symbols’, ‘employment law in an economic crisis’ and making the supply-chain ‘lean, mean and green.’
There are also articles on ‘the renaissance of the British weaving industry’ and on the impact of the new Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals, REACH regulations.
The handbook is available free on application to the ASBCI. Postage and packing in the UK will be charged from £1.00 and overseas from £4.00, with any increase dependent on the number of copies ordered.
The handbook reviews the latest ASBCI conference, speaker and student events in addition to overviewng its recent technical visits and technical handbooks. There is also a full members’ listing and a diary of forthcoming events.
