The denim unit of the UCO appears to have shut down resulting in a loss of more than 350 jobs . It was a part of the Raymond UCO denim. The two companies had merged their denim operations in 2006 with headquarters in Belgium and forming a combined entity manufacturing about 80 million metres of denim. Raymond has been suffering huge losses on its denim operations for the last few quarters. In the last financial year, the losses to the tune of Rs120 cr(about USD 29 million) were declared by ...Read More

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I often need to check out various Denim Mills around the world – just to see what they are doing. It was a painful task to keep track of their web addresses and then individually search their sites and the web. Now I have found a very easy and clean way to checkout all these mills around the world in a few minutes. Visit this List of Denim Mills Worldwide and you will see the site of Cone Denim of US opened. You can easily browse through the site. Now, you will see NEXT button on the ...Read More

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There are  a large number of denim mills in India – more than 22. Some of them are quite old – like Arvind – while many of them have started operations in the couple of years. The success of a denim company greatly depends on the kind of product development that it does. Each mill has its own special products and cater to different segments of the market. There are varying views regarding the quality of developments of different companies. I think, it would be good if we ...Read More

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There are hundreds of Denim Mills around the world. However, some of them are known by their names to all those who know denim while others are not so well known. It would be great to know which denim company would the readers consider as the BEST DENIM COMPANY IN THE WORLD.. Which is the BEST DENIM COMPANY IN THE WORLD? You can vote here and see the results also. Which is the Best Denim Fabric Company in the World?(answers) ...Read More

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VF Arvind brand – the JV between Arvind and VF (the USD 7 billion apparel giant) seems to be strenthening with new brands from the VF stable being added . In India, VF Arvind brands has Lee and Wrangler under premium; Kipling, Nautica as high lux; the just launched Hero denim as jeans for mass; and between economy to premium is JanSport backpackers. Among the new additions, Riders, the economy jeans brand, will be there(another economy jeans brand?) The North Face TNF is dubbed one of ...Read More

Raymonds Denim Division seems to have concluded talks with Reliance Retail for selling its DENIM FABRICS through the Reliance Retail Stores. The first of these stores is expected to start in Ahmedabad shortly. About 12-15 years ago, denim in India used to be mainly bought by buyers in the form of fabric and was stitched by the local tailors and then put on by the users . The garment could not get the Industrial Washing treatment, and the effect was primarily generated by ‘SOAPS AND ...Read More

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It is really amazing how the denim capacities have built up in India. Only a couple of years ago, the capacities used to be in the range of 200-250 million mtrs p.a and it was so easy to count the mills on your single hand ! . However, the last 2 years have seen a proliferation of denim mills and the count has gone up drastically. I was just counting the mills and their approximate capacities and was shocked to see the actual tally.. Have a look - Denim Mills in ...Read More

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Till now it was more of forward integration in the Indian Denim Industry with the Denim fabric players foraying into manufacture and export of Denim Apparel. Now its the turn of Apparel exporters to look into backward integration and the Apparel Major – Gokaldas Images(which has strong prescence in the Denim apparel exports) – plans to bringup their own Denim manufacturing unit within the next fiscal year. The move makes sense in the fact that they will have captive consumption ...Read More

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