November 27 sees the opening of Louis Vuitton's new store in Vienna, marking the luxury label's first shop in Austria to offer the brand's full product range. Located in the Tuchlauben district, a centre renowned for its tailors and drapers, the retail space was designed by architect Peter Marino, featuring teak floors, hand-made lacquers and silk carpet to create the atmosphere of a gentleman's club. Housing a number of salons, one area is dedicated to women and men's leather goods, while i

Hong Kong sourcing giant Li & Fung said Sunday it was "distressed" by the deaths of 110 workers in a fire at a Bangladesh garment factory where it placed orders and offered compensation. The company said it would give $1,200 to the family of each worker who died in the blaze that swept through the nine-storey Tazreen Fashion plant 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the capital Dhaka late on Saturday. It was the worst-ever fire to hit the country's garment industry. "We are very distr

The export of self-owned brands grows quickly in China. (Photo/CE) Among the exported products in China 10 years ago, the proportion of the self-owned brands was less than 10 percent and products like clothes were exported without brands or with foreign brands. Due to lack of self-owned brands in the oversea market, most Chinese enterprises just could make a small profit. With unremitting efforts for 10 years, such a situation is changing historically. Reporter learns from Ministry of C

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The apparel sector will aggressively pursue the target of $ 5 b set to be achieved by 2015.“We have studied the Turkey model which we believe is a good system to benchmark given the level of trade they enjoy inspite of costs thrice as high as prevalent here,” Apparel Exporters Association, Outgoing Chairman Rohan Abeykoon said. They too have an industry based on a higher percentage of small to medium units operating in the industry supported by large front end business’ and use their service

With no no respite from power outages ranging from 12 to 14 hours in Tamil Nadu, barring Chennai, a large number of textile mills are planning to shift their operatrions to states like Maharashtra or Gujarat, which have textile-friendly policy in existence and also availability of power. Since addition of spindlage or increasing the production capacity remained dormant for the last three years due to power problem, some spinning mill owners, both small and large, recently met and discussed th

Following the Cabinet’s move to increase the nation-wide daily minimum wage to Bt 300 from January 1, 2013, the Thailand Government has stepped forward to help the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including textile and garment businesses, to cope with the sharp rise in the production costs. The hike would result in almost two-fold rise in wages in some of the provinces like Phayao, where the minimum wage now prevails at Bt 159 per day. The Thailand Government has now set

The Laos clothing manufacturing industry is planning a major publicity campaign to attract more employees, aiming to double its workforce to 60,000 by 2015. The move comes from the Association of the Lao Garment Industry, whose training arm, the Garment Skills Development Centre (GSC), will release detailed information of the supposed benefits of taking jobs in the sector. By international standards, these are low, but Laos is poor - 2011 World Bank data reported its annual gross national

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. put some distance Monday between it and the clothing factory in Bangladesh that caught fire over the weekend, killing more than 100 people. The factory in question was no longer authorized to produce merchandise for Wal-Mart, the company said. "A supplier subcontracted work to this factory without authorization and in direct violation of our policies. Today, we have terminated the relationship with that supplier," Wal-Mart said. The clothing factory, housed in a mul