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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has hailed as a success an initiative to use global expertise to clean up Bangladesh’s notoriously dirty wet textile processing units. The IFC claims it has helped install new cleaner and efficient production equipment in 12 factories thus far, reducing water consumption by annual 75 million litres and saving US dollars USD1million in operating costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BANGLADESH textile industry and its chemical suppliers will improve its environmental standards helped by a wing of the World Bank and five major clothing brands. The bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), working with H&M, Kappahl, Lindex, Levis and Mothercare, will use regional and international consultants to transfer knowledge to Bangladeshi consulting firms and auditors to work with textile companies to assess existing environmental practices, then improve waste-management and energy efficiency.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S clothing and textile sector has rebounded this year on the back of strong sales to Europe and emerging markets, with clothing exports up 11% to US dollar USD9.5 billion as of August 2010, and textile exports reaching USD4.1 billion, up 23% on 2009.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE TEXTILE and clothing industry maybe almost unrecognisable from its organisation today in 10 years’ time: Chinese-owned offshore production; unstoppable e-commerce, demand for eco-textiles, shifting luxury markets to Asia’s new middle class, and higher prices for everyone, are just some predictions.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA continues to attract international cosmetic and perfume brands as its consumer base and their spending grow. According to the United States Trade Mission to India, the country’s USD2.68 billion beauty and wellness market is growing at 15-20% annually, almost twice as fast as the United States and European markets.…

Kencho Wangdi

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is renowned for its untouched mountainous beauty. It is also known for its political innovation: it tobacco sales ban and use of ‘gross national happiness country’ as a yardstick for development. But it may soon become known as a higher education hub of Asia, if current plans go well.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE TEXTILE and clothing industry maybe almost unrecognisable from its organisation today in 10 years’ time: Chinese-owned offshore production; unstoppable e-commerce, demand for eco-textiles, shifting luxury markets to Asia’s new middle class, and higher prices for everyone, are just some predictions.…

BY MINI PANT ZACHARIAH

BOB DYLAN was spot on: "One man’s loss always is another man’s gain." The stringent anti-smoking laws passed in India as a result of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) framework convention on tobacco control’s have stubbed out cigarettes from public places.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SIGNIFICANT benefits to tobacco and tobacco product companies will present themselves if a deal on the long-running Doha Development Round is clinched next year at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). And some diplomats at the WTO’s base in Geneva are asking if agreement is not reached next year, whether the current negotiations will be scrapped.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BANGLADESH textile industry will be helped to improve its environmental standards through a wing of the World Bank. Its International Finance Corporation (IFC) will use regional and international consultants to transfer knowledge to Bangladeshi consulting firms and auditors to work with textile companies to assess existing environmental practices, then improve waste-management and energy efficiency.…