TOUGH TIMES FOR NORTH AFRICAN KNITWEAR MANUFACTURERS
July 1st, 2010
BY PAUL COCHRANE
IT has been a tough last few years for north African knitwear, clothing and textile manufacturers, but the signs are that the knitwear sub-sector is outperforming its woven textile partners. With the European Union (EU) the region's primary export destination, the region's manufacturers have been hit by the end of restrictive quotas on imports from China in 2008, and then by the impact of the global financial crisis when demand slumped.
It has taken until 2010 for the North African sector - and the businesses that survived the downturn - to ...
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