NEW YORK CLOTHING SUPPLY CHAIN CONFERENCE
May 1st, 2017
The old guard of the United States apparel and footwear industries better wise up to changes occurring all along the supply chain if they want to see their companies survive, the head of a leading Asian research center told a room of industry representatives in New York.
“Apparel is the most expensive and dumb system,” Edwin Keh, CEO, The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA), said at the second day of a sourcing conference held June 7 and 8 at the city's Fashion Institute of Technology.
As Keh and other participants admonished the ...
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