<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest ABIT industry news - from just-style.com</title><link>http://www.just-style.com</link><description>Latest ABIT industry news - from just-style.com</description><copyright>© 2009 All content copyright just-style.com. Published by Aroq Ltd.</copyright><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:26 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>just-style.com - RSS feed</category><generator>just-style.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>Brazilian makers eye new markets at home and abroad</title><description>Despite having an ambitious export agenda via the Texbrasil promotion programme, many companies in Brazil's textiles and apparel sector are more keenly focused on the domestic market where 200m consumers and economic growth beckon. Even foreign firms are getting in on the act too, as Jozef De Coster reports.</description><link>http://www.just-style.com/article.aspx?id=104313</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brazil ramps up efforts to take its fashions worldwide</title><description>Brazil is determined to raise its presence on the world's fashion stage, with a trade show in Belo Horizonte claiming to challenge the high profile Fashion Weeks in Sao Paulo and Rio. But, as Jozef De Coster reports, the task ahead is a daunting one.</description><link>http://www.just-style.com/article.aspx?id=104165</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 13:25:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BELGIUM: EU and Brazil apparel trade groups forge links</title><description>The leaders of textile and apparel trade groups in the EU and Brazil have pledged to work together to expand trade and investment between the two regions.</description><link>http://www.just-style.com/article.aspx?id=102840</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>US: Textile, apparel execs forge links with Brazil</title><description>Top textile and apparel executives from Brazil and the US have pledged to forge and strengthen partnerships between their two industries after a meeting in Washington, DC earlier this week.</description><link>http://www.just-style.com/article.aspx?id=100645</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:47:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BELGIUM: Van de Velde profit slips during first half</title><description>Belgian lingerie maker Van de Velde announced today that group share in profit was down 5.5% to EUR17.1m (US$23.4m) during the first half of 2007.</description><link>http://www.just-style.com/article.aspx?id=98376</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tunisian garment industry regains its confidence</title><description>In stark contrast to the declining shipments of its key garment categories reported this time last year, Tunisia's textile and clothing industry is now riding high on rising exports, significant new foreign investments and public sector projects. Jozef De Coster looks at what a difference a year makes.</description><link>http://www.just-style.com/article.aspx?id=98054</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:39:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BELGIUM: Van de Velde invests in Intimacy</title><description>Lingerie firm Van de Velde has reached an agreement to acquire shares of the US firm Intimacy Management.</description><link>http://www.just-style.com/article.aspx?id=96895</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:17:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>