EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES MANAGEMENT BRIEFING OUTSOURCING SUPPLIERS STILL WANT TO DESIGN AND OWN BRANDS – BUT PROGRESS IS SLOW
August 1st, 2012
BY SHEENA ROSSITER, IN SÃO PAULO; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI; HELEN CLARK, IN HANOI; AND WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI
THE GROWTH in outsourcing has been maybe the most important trend in the clothing and textile sector in the past decade, with emerging market countries offering increasingly reliable and sophisticated services. In the latter part of the past decade, talk grew about emerging market suppliers developing their own design hubs, and while the recession put paid to a lot of those dreams, the idea is still alive.
India is a case in point. It has ...
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