Category: Emerging Markets

With the difficult financial situation in Greece, many Greek businesses are looking for a way to circumvent banking restrictions and rising taxes.

Bosnian men’s fashion brand Granoff has started expanding to foreign markets, mainly in Western Europe, particularly the Swedish market, according to company founder and owner...

China-based textile manufacturer Shandong Daiyin Textile & Garment Group (D&Y Group) will invest about US$100m to expand its spinning facility in Sedenak, Johor, by the...

Retail fashion giants Gap and H&M have come out in support of proposals to reform the labour law in Myanmar.

The Philippine Textile Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology is hoping to push tropical fabrics, such as those made from piña and...

Indonesian textile producers are urging the government to take swift action to help the industry survive amid weak sales and rising production costs, otherwise they...

A foreign and a Hungarian strategic investor, along with the local council of Szombathely, in western Hungary, will assume ownership of the assets of clothing...

Kalinel, a supplier of home textiles for IKEA stores worldwide, will invest BGN6m (US$3. 4m) in a new production base in Troyan, Bulgaria.

Turkish textile producer Kaya Group is setting up a textile project in Georgia and will export products produced in the plant to EU countries.

Slam Clothing plans to invest BGN2m (US$1. 12m) in a clothing plant in Vidin, north-western Bulgaria, according to district governor Momchil Stankov.

Press reports from Vietnam suggest the government is considering a 2% duty on imports of polyester staple fibre to encourage domestic production.

Cambodia’s clothing exports for the first quarter of 2014 grew by 11% year-on-year, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Commerce, indicating a...

The Indonesian government is being urged to issue a legal umbrella for efforts to fix the distribution channels of cotton imported into Indonesia as part...

More than 100 workers at garment factories in the Shwepyithar Industrial Zone in Myanmar have been protesting to demand better wages since February.

The Bulgarian textile and clothing sector is a diverse industry that produces a wide range of products.

A Polish company is to set up an enterprise to manufacture mattresses, mattress cases and furniture upholstery fabrics in Gomel, Belarus.