Speaking with style: Henry Tan, CEO, Luen Thai Holdings

Luen Thai Holdings is Hong Kong's largest listed garment firm, with 34,000 employees, revenues of around US$1bn and a flagship business that produces over 80m garments a year. Here CEO Henry Tan talks to just-style managing editor Leonie Barrie calls about the need for industry-wide collaboration, the push into new production bases and the changing role of China.

Speaking with style: Henry Tan, CEO, Luen Thai Holdings (Part I)

9 May 2012

Luen Thai Holdings is Hong Kong's largest listed garment firm, with 34,000 employees, revenues of around US$1bn and a flagship business that produces over 80m garments a year - as well as footwear and bags - from production bases in China, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Cambodia. In the first of two articles based on a conversation with just-style managing editor Leonie Barrie at the recent Prime Source Forum in Hong Kong, CEO Henry Tan calls for industry-wide collaboration in a bid to increase efficiency and offset rising costs in the apparel supply chain.

Speaking with style: Henry Tan, CEO, Luen Thai Holdings (Part II)

9 May 2012

In the second of two articles based on a conversation with just-style managing editor Leonie Barrie at the recent Prime Source Forum in Hong Kong, Henry Tan, the CEO of Hong Kong's largest listed garment firm Luen Thai Holdings, talks about the push into new production bases and the changing role of China.

Viewpoint: Apparel firms cautiously optimistic about Burma

24 April 2012

In its constant search for cheaper and cheaper production bases around the world, there are few places the apparel and textile industry has left untouched. But could Burma - also called Myanmar - be the next frontier?

HONG KONG: Luen Thai posts US$19.8m FY profit

4 April 2012

Apparel group Luen Thai recorded net profit of US$19.8m in 2011 on the back of revenue growth of 20.5%.

Prime Source Forum 2012: Quote/Unquote - day 1

29 March 2012

The first day of this year's Prime Source Forum in Hong Kong threw up the usual mix of ideas and insight. Rising costs, finding capable capacity, new sourcing locations such as Myanmar, collaboration across the supply chain - and of course China's role in all of this - were all up for discussion. Here are some of the most quotable highlights from the first day.