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Related Keywords: Africa, apparel, Europe, export, fabrics, future, Klopman, manufacturing, Servworx, South African, workwear

Klopman, a leading European producer of fabrics for workwear, has announced its entrance into the South African market. This follows an agreement to form a partnership with Servworx, the second largest workwear rental company in South Africa.

Servworx is a new generation services company with a significant presence in the healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, mining and construction, and security sectors. Servworx is Klopman’s inaugural African partner/customer, with the continent projected to be “a key driver of future global economic growth”, according to the manufacturer.

Related Keywords: Africa, Arab Countries, Egypt, exports, Garments, ready-made

Egypt’s exports of ready-made garments grew by 4.4% year-on-year to $802 million during the first half of 2019 from $768 million, the Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

As for June, ready-made garments exported by the North African nation increased by 11% to $122 million from $110 million in the same month a year earlier, according to a report released by the Readymade Garments Export Council of Egypt.

The US topped countries importing ready-made garments from Egypt with a value of $450 million in H1-19, rising by 19% year-on-year from $378 million.

Related Keywords: Africa, brand, ethical garments, fabrics, Gambia, Garments, Non profit, Origin, Textile, United Kingdom

Origin is the UK's first fully not-for-profit fashion brand, and its founders are hoping to inspire others into a new way of doing business.

Tom and Alice Cracknell launched Origin last year, with the help of a crowdfunding campaign, to prove that fashion could truly be a force for good. Origin invests all of its profits into running humanitarian projects in the communities where the brand's fabrics come from - in Mali, Ethiopia and The Gambia.

Related Keywords: Africa, cotton, cotton sector, Cotton Sector Development Programme, farming, Mills, Tanzania, Tanzania cotton board, Textile, Textile mills

While cotton growing and ginning is a top agricultural export industry in Tanzania, the sector has been struggling for the past 50 years. As a result, Tanzania’s half a million smallholder cotton farmers in the Lake Zone, the region southeast of Lake Victoria where most cotton is produced, remain impoverished. The poverty rate in Tanzania was 26.8 percent in 2016. Improving the Tanzanian economy, which relies on the cotton sector, is essential to further reduce the poverty rate and improving livelihoods.

Related Keywords: Africa, be a little short of target, chase target set to double export in ten year, Commonwealth of Independent states, exporters face duties, FTA with European Union and US delayed, promote value addition, through bilateral agreement with Australia, to boost textile exports, union textile ministry, working new textiles policy

The Union textiles ministry through bilateral agreements with Australia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Africa is trying chase target set to double textile exports in 10 years. The ministry is also working on a new textiles policy to promote value addition as free trade agreements (FTAs) with the European Union and the US are delayed.

Textile exports are unlikely to reach their 2015-16 target of $47.5 billion (Rs 3.17 lakh crore) because the figure was $32 billion (Rs 2.14 lakh crore) till December.

Related Keywords: Africa, apply new technologies, business model, direct negative impact on textile exports, economic transformation, exports continued to decline last year, Japan and Europe, main textile export markets of China, positive growth in exports, retail sales revenues of clothing declined, sharp depreciation in yen and Euro, South Korea, United States

Japan and Europe have been China's main textile export markets due to sharp depreciation in yen and Euro had a direct negative impact on textile exports. China's textile and garment exports continued to decline last year, mainly due to the good performance in the previous year and exchange rate fluctuations, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Wednesday.

Related Keywords: Africa, big push in exports, booming regions, cheaper cargo, fashion shows in UAE, formed three year plan, freight services, Middle East, Pakistan Commerce Minister, Pakistani fashion industry, Qatar, regular supply of electricity, roadmap to raise exports, South East Asia and CHina, STPE, Strategic Trade Policy Framework, textile exports

The Pakistan Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan on the back of worrisome performance of the export sector has formed a three-year plan called "Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF) - 2015-18 to make a big push in exports particularly to the booming regions like Middle East Africa, South East Asia and China which has been okayed by the Cabinet Committee on Production and Exports.

Related Keywords: Africa, Asia, Asian textile industry, collapsing factories, Ethiopia, global textile, global textile brands, Inditex, Kenyan textile industry, production hub, soaring labour wages, Swedish chain H&M, US-based WalMart, value adding industry, violent workers protest

Global textile retailers have found alternatives to Asia as a production hub as they saw some bad event happening in Asia’s textile industry in the year 2014 like the soaring labour wages in China, violent workers’ protests in Cambodia and collapsing factories in Bangladesh. These events points at the fact that the entire Asia textile industry seems to be in transition and the transition lies in a shift to a more value-adding industry.

Related Keywords: Africa, apparel and footwear event, H&M, intra regional trade, Lesotho, manufacturers, Source Africa, Textile

Source Africa, now in its second year provides a platform for African manufacturers to connect with both international and intra-regional buyers. The annual pan-African textile, clothing and footwear trade event on the international calendar is designed to reveal that African textile, apparel & footwear manufacturers can compete on price, quality and standards. The event is set to attract more international interest.