Calitri Denim Industries of Italy, the manufacturer of premium Ring Spun denims , has entered into Joint Venture with GFM Textiles of Mexico . The Denim division of GFM is also commonly known as Parras. GFM is a diversified group with interests in Minerals, Energy,Electronics and Textiles. Its denim division Parras has four plants and an annual production capacity of about 100 million metres. On the other hand , CDI is a much smaller plant with a capacity of about 15 million metres ...Read More

The Japanese denim industry is revered the world over for its innovativeness and its capability to set trends in the Denim Industry. It would be nice to have a look at some facts and figures relating to the Japanese Denim Industry. Denim Exports : 2006 about 56 million sq mtrs. 2007(till march) about 15 million sq mtrs. Jeans :80 million pairs (approx) produced in Japan p.a ...Read More

The Tavex Group of Spain(Madrid) – the famous denim company of Europe – which already owns manufacturing facilities in the city of Puebla in México, is working to expand its capacity through the acquisition of the denim manufacturing facilities of the company ACOTEX in Puebla and Tlaxcala . This will take the capacity of Tavex in Mexico to about 30 million metres pa. "Our objective with this investment is to increase Denim production in the differentiated products segment ...Read More

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Costing above USD 100/- the high-end Jeans in US, from names like 7 for all Mankind, True Religion, Rock&Republic etc , had been experiencing a high growth rate of sales in US – about 48%. However, this year, their growth rate has been reduced to about 24% – which is quite a drop .. The high-priced jeans still have about 5% of the Denim Market, but this share may not increase as dramatically as it was before. The Reason ? It seems that denim’s place in teens’ ...Read More

Three pairs of Jeans will be sold in UK this year every second ! . Why? Because the demand is increasing in the UK and the total pair of Jeans sold in UK will be around 86 million pairs in 2007 and the total amount spend by Britons on Jeans will be about GBP1.5billion.. What does it mean? It means that: the per capita sales of Jeans in UK will be around 1.4 . the average price of Jeans sold in UK will be around GBP 17/- there will be an increase of about 40% in volume since 2002.. Who is ...Read More