Production costs

How factories can ease the cost squeeze

In the first five months of this year, the average unit price for US garment imports has risen by 2.2%.…

Smart sourcing: the winner takes all

Fantastic designs and a great store concept can help ensure that retailers achieve top line growth. But for the bottom…

Successful sourcing in 2006

The phase-out of quotas in 2005 presented the global garment industry with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rationalise the way it…

Nan Yang Textiles knits buoyant future

Ranked as one of Thailand's top three textile producers and the country's seventh largest garment maker with a 2003 sales…

Indian exporters cash in on quota free

India's leading apparel firms will increase their exports now that quotas have been phased-out. But in order to reach the…