To challenge China, India needs to get out of the way of its factory owners
1 month ago

To challenge China, India needs to get out of the way of its factory owners

Live Mint  

Boosting manufacturing is critical to India becoming an economic powerhouse. In India, manufacturing’s contribution to its gross domestic product has fallen from around 17% two decades ago to 13% in 2023, according to World Bank data. Manufacturing firms in India said they are wary of operating large factories because of the power of organized labor. “No manufacturer wants to set up a 10,000 person factory because it really makes them a target," said Rahul Ahluwalia, founding director of Foundation of Economic Development, a New Delhi think tank. India’s failure to sign free-trade agreements with other countries that would slash tariffs on its exports has also made Indian garments increasingly too expensive for global retail companies.

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Size matters: Decoding Indian manufacturing’s problem of scale
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Size matters: Decoding Indian manufacturing’s problem of scale

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The production-linked incentive scheme—one of the ways in which this government was hoping to increase manufacturing in India—is going through a slowdown, with planned expansions to the programme being put on hold. Size does matter As of 2019, the last date for which data was available, Bangladesh’s ALTF sector employed 2.45 million people, with 66% of those working …

Demand from European markets fuels recovery in India’s textile exports amid Bangladesh crisis
1 month ago

Demand from European markets fuels recovery in India’s textile exports amid Bangladesh crisis

Live Mint  

Indian textile exports are showing signs of recovery in FY25, with demand from European markets playing a crucial role in boosting figures, according to data from the ministry of commerce and industry. However, the numbers still fall short of the $5.84 billion achieved during FY23, the commerce ministry data showed, highlighting recovery challenges despite the growing interest in Indian textiles …

Can India’s garments industry benefit from Bangladesh’s turmoil?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Can India’s garments industry benefit from Bangladesh’s turmoil?

Live Mint  

Asia’s rise has been stitched together by the textile industry. Recently a group of exporters based in Tiruppur, a textile hub in southern India, said it had earned fresh orders worth $54m because of the unrest in Bangladesh. The head of sourcing at Gap says the American fashion brand remains “cautiously optimistic” about Bangladesh’s future. Between 2016 and 2023 the …

Competing in the Global Apparel Arena: How India Can Rise Above the Textile Tide
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Competing in the Global Apparel Arena: How India Can Rise Above the Textile Tide

Hindustan Times  

India's textile and apparel sector holds significant potential to create more and better employment, especially from the labour-intensive apparel segment. However, the sector faces important challenges in adapting to global market demands. It requires both the government and private sector to play their part. The government could help by rationalising domestic taxation and reducing import tariffs along the entire supply …

Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever
2 months ago

Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever

NPR  

Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever toggle caption Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images Ayesha Begum is working hard on her sewing machine. Begum one of four million garment workers in Bangladesh making clothes for American and European markets – brands such as Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Zara and others. “In those other countries they’re …

How India can fix the Chinese imports problem
2 months, 3 weeks ago

How India can fix the Chinese imports problem

Live Mint  

India last month extended countervailing duties of 12-30% on certain steel imports from China and Vietnam, following requests from local producers to safeguard against cheaper imports. Read this | Mint Primer | China’s stimulus: What it spells for India & the world A growing economy like India’s naturally requires more imports to meet rising consumption and manufacturing demand, with cost …

Raymond Plans To Bank On Opportunities Created By Bangladesh Crisis, Says MD Gautam Singhania
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Raymond Plans To Bank On Opportunities Created By Bangladesh Crisis, Says MD Gautam Singhania

ABP News  

Raymond on Sunday revealed that the Bangladesh crisis has proven to be a huge opportunity for the domestic garment industry. Gautam Hari Singhania, Chairman and MD, Raymond, said that the company has been receiving a huge number of inquiries from global players after the garment industry in Bangladesh suffered due to the political unrest in the country. India is better-placed …

Indian garment sector expects short-term gains due to Bangladesh crisis
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Indian garment sector expects short-term gains due to Bangladesh crisis

The Hindu  

The crisis in Bangladesh is expected to impact the Indian textile and apparel sector in the short term. Siddhartha Rajagopal, the Executive Director of Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, said $1.7-billion worth of cotton, cotton yarn and fabrics were exported by India to Bangladesh last fiscal, which is 17% of India’s cotton textile exports. According to the Apparel Export Promotion …

Number Theory: Bangladesh shows the limits of export led growth for large countries
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Number Theory: Bangladesh shows the limits of export led growth for large countries

Hindustan Times  

Bangladesh is what a lot of countries in the global south aspire to become: a global leader in labour intensive exports. The ongoing protests in the country which have seen around 200 deaths and thousands of people arrested, are yet another reminder of the fact that countries with large populations will do well to guard against seeing just export-led development …

Bangladesh banks, garment factories reopen after authorities ease curfew
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Bangladesh banks, garment factories reopen after authorities ease curfew

New Indian Express  

DHAKA: Garment factories and banks reopened in Bangladesh Wednesday after authorities eased a curfew imposed to contain deadly clashes sparked by student protests over civil service employment quotas. Last week's violence killed at least 186 people, according to an AFP count of victims reported by police and hospitals, during some of the worst unrest of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's tenure. …

India’s fraying garment industry needs a stitch in time under Modi 3.0
5 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s fraying garment industry needs a stitch in time under Modi 3.0

Hindustan Times  

In 2011, McKinsey, the global consulting firm, conducted a survey of chief purchasing officers at top western apparel makers in order to gauge the supply chain shifts afoot in the industry. “Entry into synthetics would make factories run full year and increase wages manifold.” Fast fashion is a low-margin industry with a complex production process, and one indicator could determine …

Police in Bangladesh disperse garment workers protesting since the weekend to demand better wages
1 year, 1 month ago

Police in Bangladesh disperse garment workers protesting since the weekend to demand better wages

The Hindu  

Police in Bangladesh's capital on November 2 used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse more than 1,000 garment factory workers who took to the streets for a sixth straight day to demand better wages. The workers get 8,300 takas, or $75, as a monthly minimum wage and they often need to work overtime to make ends meet, labour unions …

Police in Bangladesh disperse garment workers protesting since the weekend to demand better wages
1 year, 1 month ago

Police in Bangladesh disperse garment workers protesting since the weekend to demand better wages

Associated Press  

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Police in Bangladesh’s capital Thursday used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse more than 1,000 garment factory workers who took to the streets for a sixth straight day to demand better wages. Nazmul Hasan Firoz, additional deputy police commissioner at Pallabi in Dhaka’s Mirpur area, said police dispersed the workers “peacefully” using tear gas as they …

Violence erupts as garment workers protest in Bangladesh
1 year, 1 month ago

Violence erupts as garment workers protest in Bangladesh

Live Mint  

Bangladesh, the second-largest garment-producing country in the world after China, witnessed protests over the weekend after BGMEA offered to increase the monthly minimum wage by 25% to reach USD 90, instead of the USD 208 demanded by the workers. Currently, Bangladesh has nearly 3,500 factories with some four million workers employed, mostly women, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and …

Thousands of Bangladesh’s garment factory workers take to the streets demanding better wages
1 year, 1 month ago

Thousands of Bangladesh’s garment factory workers take to the streets demanding better wages

Associated Press  

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and the industrial district of Gazipur on Tuesday to demand better wages. In Dhaka’s Mirpur area, where an Associated Press team was at the scene, hundreds of protesters chanted demanding better wages. Raihan Mia, a fire department official in Gazipur district, told The Associated …

India’s global exports in labour-intensive sectors declined in last 5 years: FIE
1 year, 2 months ago

India’s global exports in labour-intensive sectors declined in last 5 years: FIE

Live Mint  

With India experiencing a decline in global market share across segments during the last five years, the labour-intensive export sectors such as apparels, marine products, plastics, and gems and jewellery are showing a "troubling pattern", news agency PTI quoted FIEO report as saying. "An analysis of sector-wise export performance for the last five years reveal the troubling pattern that India …

Bangladesh’s garment sector faces energy, demand crises
2 years, 4 months ago

Bangladesh’s garment sector faces energy, demand crises

Al Jazeera  

The world’s second-largest garment exporter is experiencing a slowdown that will threaten the nation’s economic recovery. Plummy Fashions Ltd., a supplier to PVH Corp., the parent company of fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger, and Inditex SA’s Zara, saw new orders in July drop 20% from a year earlier, its Managing Director Fazlul Hoque said. It couldn’t be happening at a worse …

Central govt. wants to create 75 textile hubs across India, says Piyush Goyal
2 years, 5 months ago

Central govt. wants to create 75 textile hubs across India, says Piyush Goyal

The Hindu  

The Central government wants to create 75 textile hubs across the country on the lines of Tiruppur to generate jobs and support higher textile exports, Union Minister of Textiles and Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said in Tiruppur on Sunday. Speaking at an exporters’ meeting, organised by Federation of Indian Export Organisations and Apparel Export Promotion Council, the Minister explained …

Get these wrinkles out of the South Asian textile story
2 years, 9 months ago

Get these wrinkles out of the South Asian textile story

The Hindu  

South Asia became a major player in the global textiles and clothing market with the onset of the third wave of global production. Supportive industrial policy was an instrumental factor in the 1990s, with zero duty on raw material and capital machinery, as access to global markets led to the industry’s boom. India’s production centres are operational at near full …

Bangladesh factories open as economic worries trump virus
3 years, 4 months ago

Bangladesh factories open as economic worries trump virus

The Hindu  

Bangladesh is suffering through its deadliest surge of the pandemic, but you wouldn't know it looking at its factories, markets and malls. The South Asian nation home to 165 million people has done away with most virus restrictions, allowing businesses to reopen to enthusiastic crowds following weeks of strict measures put in place following the arrival of the highly contagious …

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