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Founded by Sandeep Agarwal – who has been associated with denim since 1993- the website brings out the best in denim world – trends, analysis, reports on almost a daily basis for the service of the denim industry worldwide. The reports provided by Denimsandjeans.com over the last few years have been found quite useful by the industry players – designers, sourcing guys, mills, buyers etc.

  • Cheap Chinese Denim – Getting Killed By Rising Labor And Cotton Prices

    The era of Cheap Chinese denim is over – says a report by Telegraph , UK. The rising labour costs in China coupled with the effect of Cotton price is killing the Chinese denim exports. The retailers who had a great time buying very cheap denim and retailing them as low as $5 – $10…

  • Download Denim Thread Consumption And Thread Cost Garment Calculators

    AneCalc is a tool developed by American & Efird to assist in estimating the thread consumption and cost per thread cost per jeans / garment alongwith the number of cones one needs for a given programme. The tools are the in the form of a an excel spreadsheet and one has to just enter basic…

  • 4.6% Growth In Import Of Denim Jeans Into USA In 2010 Over 2009

      The denim apparel imports into USA has increased by a marginal 4.6% in 2010 over the volumes of 2009 . This is quite surprising as the increase in imports during the first 6 months of the year was 12.6% and as I mentioned in a previous report. This actually means that the imports in…

  • Fair Trade Cotton – Denim Collection From Topshop And More….

    Topshop recently announced a collection of Denim and other apparel products made from Fair Trade Cotton.  In these times of explosive cotton price increases, companies and buyers may have forgotten about the ‘Fair Trade Cotton’ , but there are retailers who are taking it up on a long term basis as a means to give…

  • Interview With Mr. Rajiv Dayal – MD Mafatlal Denim Mill (India).

    Mafatlal Denim is one of the well known denim mills from India.  The company has been present on the Indian denim firmament for over 15 years and were among the first in India  to have  collaborations with established international denim  players like Burlington  .  I recently interacted with the Managing Director of the company –…

  • Bayer CropScience and Olah Inc. sign unique licensing agreement on cotton brands FiberMax® and Stoneville®

    Bayer CropScience and New York-based textile and apparel company Olah Inc. (owners of the famous KINPGINS SHOW ) have signed a licensing agreement to use the Bayer CropScience cotton brand names FiberMax® and Stoneville®. Under this ten-year agreement, Olah has been granted an exclusive license to develop and market the two brands for apparel and…

  • Gap Expanding The 1969 Jeans Offering ?

    Gap had introduced the mid priced premium jeans – 1969  – in 2009  and had created ripples in the denim market. Having worked over the supply chain for a couple of years, Gap was able to introduce the 1969 jeans and was able to make an impact in the denim market which it was rapidly…

  • New Denim Video Section At Denimsandjeans.com

    We are pleased to announce that we have created a new denim videos section at Denimsandjeans.com. This section has a collection of denim videos related to all aspects of denim production – from cotton growing to retailing and advertising of jeans. Currently we are starting with a small number of these videos and this section…

  • International Denim Conference– On DVD

    The first ever two-day “International Conference on Denims & Jeans” was held at IIM Ahmedabad on 29th and 30th October under the chairmanship of Dr. PR Roy, Director – Fibre2Fashion and Former Group CEO, Arvind Ltd. The event was well attended by more than 500 delegates from the industry wherein the distinguished speakers presented an…

  • New Jeans From Levi’s To Save 16 Million Ltrs Of Water In 2011 Spring

    Levi’s has started offering a new collection of jeans which consumes less water . The logic behind this ? Levi’s did a ‘Cradle to grave’ study for its 501 jeans and found that about 3480 ltrs of water in its entire lifetime !! . This is a phenomenol amount of water to be spent on…

  • Wish You A Happy New Year 2011

    Wishing all our readers and visitors a Very Happy New Year 2011.. May this year be full of happiness, success and prosperity for you and your family..  

  • Wish You A Merry (Denim !) Christmas

    For those who think that Christmas has nothing to do with denim, need to take a look at the photographs of different Christmas products in denim .Click on the photographs to see more details. Hope you like . Wish you A Merry Christmas And A Very Happy New Year