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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Cone Denim (in Jiaxing,China),Central Textiles(Hong kong) and Lanyan Group(China) have installed the Electronic Fibre Selection System from Cotton Incorporated. This computer software technology driven system aims to optimize the quality and consistency of the cotton fibre – meant to help in producing high quality yarns . Also, this helps the American Cotton Exporters as more American Cotton is expected to be used by mills using the EFS system. Well its a good move by the Cotton Inc. to ...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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Like all other Denim Mills that have been affected by the slowdown in the denim sales and reduced prices, Hellenic Mills also experienced reduced financials in the year 2006(as compared to 2005). However, it is expected that the first quarter of 2007 is going to show little improved results signalling an improvement in the Denim Fabric market. The comparison of the years 2005 and 2006 will show that almost on all parameters, the performance in the year 2006 was poorer than in ...Read More

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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