October, 16-31, 2015

Apparel Resources in its commitment to provide an engaging platform for interaction and networking, made a foray into sports with the ‘Golf Day’ event. Held in Dhaka (Bangladesh), the first event attracted many popular buyers, exporters and accessory/technology providers from the Bangladesh RMG sector, including some celebrity golfers too. Covered in detail under the slug ‘AR INITIATIVE’, the event will soon debut in India also. The issue also gives an in-depth coverage to the Textile Exchange Sustainability Conference 2015 held in Mumbai recently. With a mission to inspire and accelerate people to sustainable practices in the textile value chain, the event which was organized for the first time in India was appropriately themed “Textiles – A Circular Life”. Power-packed with 33 sponsors from around the globe, with over 340 delegates and media from 32 countries, the sessions were well-attended with active participation from the audience. Team Apparel Online was at the venue to report live… Never considered as a major sweater manufacturing destination for international buyers, India will see a ‘green’ factory especially for sweaters and that too in Tirupur, soon! Conceptualized by the young and globally trained ZahirSAIT, International Trading Company (ITC) is probably going to be the first ever green sweater factory in India. Besides the above, our regular columns of Mind Tree, H2F, Fashion Trends, Industry Wire, Resource Centre, Export Statistics, etc. make the issue worth reading.