SOUTH ASIAN CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS SHUTTER TIGRAY PLANTS BECAUSE OF ETHIOPIAN WAR – FLY STAFF HOME

INDIAN garment exporters with manufacturing units based in the war-ravaged Tigray region of Ethiopia are hoping for an early revival of operations and in the interim say they are finding alternate production centres to honour their supply commitments. “We are making the products [that were to be supplied from Ethiopian] in our Indian factories,” Arul Saravanan, chief marketing officer of SCM Garments Pvt Ltd, in Tirupur, south India, told just-style. “We are also looking at other sources within Ethiopia to have the goods manufactured [by a third party] ...


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