If you have been bitten by the shopping bug, you can’t be blamed. Well, at least, not this year. After all, it is not often that retail stores offer steep discounts in the months of May–June. While monsoon sales by apparel stores usually start by end of June and electronic stores do have some clearance sales in June-July, this year with the Goods and Services … Read More →
Hundreds of city residents at the KICC Tsavo Hall buy clothing made locally from various Export Processing Zones (EPZ) on March 29th, 2017. FILE PHOTO | NMG Sale of made-for-export clothes to Kenyans returns this weekend to Nairobi after similar stints in Mombasa and Nyeri. The Export Promotion Zones Authority (EPZA) Tuesday said the four-day … Read More →
Ohio State is again going to court to protect its trademark, but this time a former Buckeye is a target. Lamp Apparel was named Thursday as the defendant in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Columbus. The Short North T-shirt shop was founded by former OSU basketball player Brandon Fuss-Cheatham and business partner Scott … Read More →
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council announced rates for the textile and other pending categories on June 3, 2017, moving one step closer to the proposed implementation of the new tax regime with effect from July 1, 2017. While rates for most commodities were announced on May 19, 2017, the announcement for the textile … Read More →
“There has been a lot of noise about UK manufacturing in the past few years, but this is probably one of the first pieces of concrete evidence to support what we’ve been hearing,” said Adam Mansell, chief executive of the UK Fashion and Textiles Association (UKFT). “It is a significant turnaround from where we were.” … Read More →
Perry Ellis International (Nasdaq:PERY) announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Wolf Company S.A. de C.V. for men’s apparel and accessories under the Cubavera® trademark in Mexico. The collection will be available in department and specialty stores, and is planned to launch in Fall 2017. Cubavera represents the joy, vibrancy, and color … Read More →
Cartoon Network Enterprises, the merchandising wing at Turner International India has associated with budding designer, Pratyush who is exclusively designing an apparel range and accessories inspired by The Powerpuff Girls (Cartoon Network characters) for his NextGen segment at the Lakme Fashion Week. We caught up with the budding designer and asked him a few questions. … Read More →