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Cambodian garment factories will pursue legal action against unions they hold responsible for strikes that caused a sector-wide shutdown over the Christmas and New Year period, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has said.

“Our members have granted power-of-attorney to GMAC to act on their behalf [in this matter].…

SOURCING in Asia has been a merry-go-round for many buyers in recent years. As the era of low-cost Chinese manufacturing draws more or less to a close, several countries have leveraged their low cost labour to capture a significant volume of the world’s lower end knitwear manufacturing, while others have sought to extend their reach into higher value-added manufacturing by investing in infrastructure and training.…

SOURCING in Asia has been a merry-go-round for many buyers in recent years. As the era of low-cost Chinese manufacturing draws more or less to a close, several countries have leveraged their low cost labour to capture a significant volume of the world’s lower end knitwear manufacturing, while others have sought to extend their reach into higher value-added manufacturing by investing in infrastructure and training.…

POOR building construction and inadequate fire safety infrastructure are still putting Bangladesh garment factory workers at risk, according to initial inspections led by Brad Loewen, chief safety inspector for the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Mr Loewen, a Canadian, is set to lead a team to inspect 1,500 factories this year, identifying ways that brands and factory owners can improve workplace safety in an industry plagued with factory fires and collapses.…

BANGLADESH’S pharmaceuticals industry lacks a “level-playing field,” leaving multinationals to wade through a raft of regulatory restrictions which may not apply to locally-owned manufacturers, a top official of Novartis Bangladesh said.

“This is a very challenging market. There are lots of restrictions on multinational companies,” Sazzad Rahim Chowdhury, finance director at the Swiss drug giant, told Manufacturing Chemist.…

A country famed for its beautiful traditional ‘batik,’ Malaysia is also home to a highly specialised textiles industry and these niche skills may prove vital for the country’s numerous finishing factories in what is shaping up to a challenging year. Economists are predicting a general slowing of the Malaysian economy, with average real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the next five years estimated in Q4 2013 at 3.4%, revised down 0.2% from Q4 in 2012 (slightly slower than the Asian average of 3.7%), according to the Ifo Institute for Economic Research/International Chamber of Commerce’s World Economic Survey of business experts published in November last year.…

THE PAKISTAN government has started acquiring 1,562 acres of land near Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s most populous and main cotton producing province, Punjab, for a proposed major garments manufacturing centre.

Major General (Retd) Javed Iqbal, chief executive officer of the Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company (PIEDMC), which is developing this so-called ‘garments city’ and some other industrial estates in the province, said that a pre-feasibility study has now been completed.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

A country famed for its beautiful traditional ‘batik,’ Malaysia is also home to a highly specialised textiles industry and these niche skills may prove vital for the country’s numerous finishing factories in what is shaping up to a challenging year.…

Leading Bangladesh steelmaker KSRM has joined rivals BRSM and Abul Khair in building new billet plants, lured by cheaper production at home and prospects of overseas sales.

All three companies now say they hope to start operations of new mills in the coming year (2014), with their combined annual output of billet reaching 3 million tonnes, double the size of the country’s estimated billet imports of 1.5 million tonnes per year, industry insiders have told Steel First.…

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Fashion retailer ASOS showed online convenience and price are still a winning combination with shoppers. The UK-based online retailer continued its impressive trajectory this year, announcing pre-tax profit had reached GBP54.7m (US$88.3m) for the year ending 31 August, compared to GBP40m in the same period of last year, with retail sales jumping 40% to GBP753.8m, up from GBP537.9m last year. …