Here is a summary of the production of denim jeans in the EU for the period 2003-2007. This report has been compiled by the CBI . It is interesting to see that till 2007 , the production of jeans in Italy is still the largest in the EU and followed closely by Romania and Spain. Italy is increasingly becoming an expensive place to produce the jeans – however, the production of jeans is still quite high. This production has actually seen a significant fall in the last 2 years as per ...Read More

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  About 580 million pieces of denim apparel were imported into US from various countries around the world in 2009. This apparel included mainly jeans and some small quantities of  denim skirts, denim jackets, denim blazers etc. The average price of all this apparel was USD7.15/ piece CIF US . It would be interesting to know which were the countries whose exports of denim apparel  to the US were very high priced and which were the ones which were priced low and we can see the ...Read More

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In a previous report we mentioned that Imports of Women’s/Girls Jeans into US in the period from Jan-June 2009 increased over 6.34% over the same period in the year 2008. Lets see how this category fared over the entire last year and whether the same trend continued towards the end of the year or not.   From 2007 (million pcs) 2008 (million pcs) 2009 (million pcs) % inc. in 2009 over 2007 % inc. in 2009 over ...Read More

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Let’s take a look at the import figures of Blue Denim Skirts into US in the last three years . We will find that the total imports of denim skirts has fallen in the last three years from 22.49 million pieces in 2007 to 13.72 million pcs in 2009(11 months). Also given are the few major exporters who are contributing to these imports with China on the top position. Imports of Denim Skirts In US –(2007-2009): In Million pcs From 2007 2008 2009(Jan-Nov) 2009 Vs ...Read More

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We have been hearing of a revival in the blue denim jackets and that the demand seems to be picking up in the same with some forecasters also suggesting a starting of a trend on Double Denim. But is it really so ? The figures don’t tell the same story. Lets take a look at the total imports of denim jackets in US in 2007,2008 and 2009   US Imports of blue denim jackets in 2007-2009 2007 2008 2009(Jan – Nov ) 2.9 million pcs 1.79 million pcs 1.30 million pcs Source ...Read More

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Levi’s India, which had struggled to find its feet in the price concious Indian Denim market, is set to achieve a sales turnover of USD 100 million plus this year. It would make it the first international apparel brand to do so as ET reports .Besides another brand – Benetton – is also set to achieve the same feat . Levi’s India plans to open over 800 stores by 2011 and it seems that the turnover is set to increase at a faster pace in the coming years  and it plans to ...Read More

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  USA consumes almost 30% of world denim jeans production. Being such a large market , the figures related to this market are generally of great interest. One such figure is that often surfaces in various news reports  is that of ‘ Per Capita Consumption of Jeans in USA ‘ ie how many jeans does every resident of USA buys on an average in a year.. I have seen that the figures that surface range from 1 Jeans per person p.a to 7 jeans per person p.a .. I thought it would be a ...Read More

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Recently an International Conference on "Steering Mature Business: A Leadership Challenge to Textile Industry"  was held in Ahmedabad (India) – organised by Fibre2Fashion.com. Amir Akhtar, CEO of Arvind Lifestyle Fabrics , made an interesting presentation ‘Denim Today and Tomorrow’ . Some excerpts from the presentation are given below : World Denim Market The world denim market is likely to grow continously for the next few years . However, supply is growing at a faster ...Read More

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Levi Strauss & Co  announced its financial results for the third quarter ended August 30, 2009 and they were surprisingly poor. Both the turnover and net profit went down. Turnover was down 6% and net income was down 41%. This is surprising since denim has been the only  one segment in the textile sector which has been showing positive growth in last one year. The  imports of denim is also continuously rising in US with over 6% rise in imports of Women’s denim in the ...Read More

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The latest figures of imports of men’s/boy’s denim jeans into US reveal that the imports of Men’s Jeans are down by 3.9%  during the period Jan-July 2009 as compared to the same period in 2008.. Imports of Men’s/Boy’s Denim Jeans –2009 (million pcs) Particulars Jan-July 2009 Jan-July 2008 % Change Men’s Jeans 108.79 113.26 -3.95% Boy’s Jeans 43.92 36.87 +17.67 Total 152.71 150.13 +1.35%   Boy’s jeans , on the other hand, have increased in imports by ...Read More

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