RESHORING UK AND US
April 21st, 2015
IT is early days when it comes to measuring reshoring in the clothing and textile sector, the return of production to mature markets from the Asian outsourcers who have dominated supply for the past decade. But industry experts and players are sure that it is happening. In Britain, John Miln, the CEO of the UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) said: “I think that you could say across the piece that there is a degree of activity that clearly historically wasn’t there.” UKFT data shows that there are 58,000 businesses in the fashion and textile supply ...
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