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East Africa is emerging as an attractive sourcing alternative for apparel and textile producers around the world as costs in Chinese outsourcing centres rise especially. With cheaper labour and resources, the region has already attracted foreign investment, particularly from Asia.

International apparel and textile producers are looking hard at Ethiopia as an attractive production and sourcing destination.…

The Egyptian textile sector is a mixed bag, succeeding in certain sub-sectors and struggling in others, while failing to add value to its core strength in cotton production. It has managed to weather the ongoing political instability, but exports are weak due to lower demand from Europe, and the overall sector is straining to keep up with global competition.…

One of Turkey’s leading producers of mattresses and other textile bed products has told WTiN.com that the country’s textile industry is benefiting from a significant increase in demand for such products.
Berna İlter, co-director of BRN Sleep Products, based in Kayseri, in Turkey’s Central Anatolia region, said growing wealth across the country has prompted a shift in bed buying purchases.…

TOILETRIES sales in the Arab Gulf countries remain robust, an oasis of economic and political stability in a turbulent Middle East. Elsewhere in the region, the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and the rise of the Islamic State, has seen toiletries sales plummet.…

In a country embroiled in an ugly armed conflict, the issue of confectionery may seem at first glance to be superfluous. In Ukraine, though, that is anything but the case.

Not only is confectionery a key industry for the country, but it is a highly politicised one.…

THE EUROPEAN Committee of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS) has called on the European Union (EU) and US negotiators for a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) to exclude sugar and high sugar products from this planned trade agreement.

“The US market is a mature and saturated market, not attractive for the EU,” Marie-Christine Ribera, CEFS director general, told TTIP negotiators during an event dedicated to interest groups affected by the agreement, held in Brussels on February 4.…

The international Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has revealed to WTiN.com that the volume of cotton in Turkey produced in line with the BCI’s Better Cotton Standard System is forecast to triple within the next two years.

According to BCI data, the volume of ‘Better Cotton’ standard lint produced in Turkey in the 2013/14 season was 13,000 tonnes, with that figure forecast to almost double to 24,000 tonnes for the current 2014/15 season, and then grow by a further 54% to 37,000 tonnes in 2015/16.…

The international Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has revealed to WTiN.com that the volume of cotton in Turkey produced in line with the BCI’s Better Cotton Standard System is forecast to triple within the next two years.

According to BCI data, the volume of ‘Better Cotton’ standard lint produced in Turkey in the 2013/14 season was 13,000 tonnes, with that figure forecast to almost double to 24,000 tonnes for the current 2014/15 season, and then grow by a further 54% to 37,000 tonnes in 2015/16.…

A MAJOR Bangladesh knitwear company has launched an innovation that may inspire a new segment in this key outsourcing industry – ‘fake’ heavy knitwear.

DBL Group, based north of Dhaka, has developed this fabric for jerseys made from cotton or a blend of cotton and synthetic fibres. …

Chinese travellers are increasingly venturing to Greece, offering great potential for its tourism industry. And while Greece’s exotic landscapes and architecture attract visitors from China, the tourism industry could prosper still further from developing services and infrastructure designed to cater to this growing market.…