Workers in some of the world’s biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change pushes temperatures up, a report found on Sunday, a problem multinational retailers and brands will have to help address. In Dhaka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh and Karachi, the number of days with “wet-bulb” …
Apparel exports registered 11.9% growth in August to $1,268.2 million compared with $1,133.5 million last August. In rupee terms, exports were 13.4% higher last month compared with last August and 8.7% more in April-August FY25 compared with the corresponding period in FY24. Mithileshwar Thakur, Secretary General, Apparel Export Promotion Council, said in a press statement that exports to Japan, Korea, …
Textile clusters in Tamil Nadu, which were hit by steep drop in orders for the last two years, are now facing a new challenge - shortage of workers. K. Selvaraju, secretary general of the Southern India Mills’ Association, said wages had increased 20% for textile workers in Rajasthan and 28% in Odisha. With a large number of workers from other …
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 …
