Despite the ongoing Israel war with Hamas, there is no immediate impact on India’s apparel export to Israel which was around US $ 81 million in the last financial year.
But, Maryan Apparels Company, a Kannur-based uniform manufacturer has declared that it will no longer accept orders from the region until peace is restored. The company has been supplying over 1 lakh uniform shirts to the region annually for the past eight years.
The organisation, having annual turnover of up to Rs. 80 crore, decided to fulfill previous uniform orders until December, but will not accept new orders until the conflict comes to an end.
Thomas Olickal, MD of the company said that due to this step, the company will have a substantial financial loss, but it is a commitment to peace and a concern for the humanitarian consequences of ongoing conflicts. His comment also comes amid the reported deaths of people in a hospital in Gaza, the source of which remains unclear.
“Although both sides are denying their roles in it, we thought it is better on our part not to have a direct or indirect connection with it. We are stopping the business agreement only till the war is over as it’s a moral responsibility. We don’t have any affinity towards either side. If Palestine gives us an order now, we won’t take that either,” he said.
The company supplies uniforms to corporate companies, hospitals, schools and oil rigs. It also works with police and defence forces in all of the Middle East countries and to some in Europe.
