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Related Keywords: exploit ASEAN market, fully vertical integrated supply chain, Garment and textile industries, global apparel trade, improve competitiveness, imprt fabric, production hub, strengthen cooperation, TGMA, Thailand and Vietnam, TPP, yarn export

Thailand and Vietnam garment and textile industries to improve competitiveness and exploit the ASEAN market need to strengthen co-operation. Establishing fully vertical integrated-supply chain between Thailand and Vietnam would be one of the big steps toward granting and sustaining competitiveness.

Nguyen Van Tuan, deputy general secretary of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, said that in recent years Vietnam has emerged as a production hub for garment and textile products. However, the industry has had to import up to 85% of materials needed for production.

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: Designers Mart, FADAN, Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria, Kolawole Kuddus, Nigerian-made cloths, production hub, textile companies

The Fashion Designers' Association of Nigeria (FADAN), Lagos Chapter has proposed a production hub which is going to be like a meeting point for key players. To build the production hub in Lagos the association would require about N150 million.

Mr Kolawole Kuddus, the State Coordinator of the association, said that the production hub would also include a retail store that would display finished clothing items and accessories made by Nigerian fashion designers and pattern makers.