In October, I moved to Hong Kong and have spent the last seven months studying what is going on in China’s textile industry, specifically in denim and jeans. China dominates global textiles and I wanted to see for myself what dominance looks like, touring textile mills throughout the country. China produces 2.4 billion yards of denim per year and in 2010 ranked as the largest exporter of jeans and casual pants to the USA supplying 192 million jeans. That is 31.3% of the all jeans apparel ...Read More

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A partnership between Arvind denim and Birla  Cellulose has resulted  in the creation of a great denim product – the Excel Denim. Excel  fiber which is a third generation cellulosic fiber has been developed by Birla Cellulose  in collaboration with Arvind mills and the result is a cool denim product. Both the companies worked together  for over 2 and half years to bring out the right product. At a grand launch at Bangalore Palace, the collection created by the ...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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