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  • Raymonds fabrics to be marketed through Reliance Retail?

    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 SUN’.

    I am not really sure whether Raymonds is planning to revive the concept of selling denim in the form of fabrics again.. If yes, then it remains to be seen how the users -primarily the young generation- takes it as they are getting used to a variety of washing, embroidery, embellishment and other effects on their denims.

    Personally , I think, it may not be too much useful if there is no additional tools for creating effects on the denim are given to the users as plain denim is hardly worn these days..

    Update : Reliance Retail does not seem to have been growing so well. It would do Raymonds some good , if they selected some other retail partner

  • EFS System installed by three denim mills

    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 increase its Cotton exports.
    Let’s wait and see how profitable wwill it be for the companies who have installed it ..

  • Denim Mills in India

    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 India
    No. Name Capacity(Million Mtrs p.a) Remarks
    Approx.
    1 Arvind 70 Reduced cap. Recently
    2 Aarvee 50
    3 Malwa 20
    4 KG Denim 22
    5 KG Fabric 10 New Co.
    6 Raymond 40
    7 Surya Lakshmi 40
    8 Mafatlal 20
    9 Rainbow 20
    10 Modern 18
    11 Century 20 Being expanded shortly
    12 Nahar 15 New Co.
    13 Blue Blend 20
    14 Chidipal 20
    15 Bhaskar 20
    16 Jindal 10 New Co.
    17 Soma 20 Recently Expanded
    18 Pratap 10 New Co.
    19 Ginni 10 New Co.
    20 Ashima 10
    21 Sangam Textiles 10 New Co.
    22 LNJ Bhilwara 20 Commencing prod. Shortly
    23 Sai Lakshmi 20 Commencing prod. Shortly
    515 Million mtrs approx

    If you want to reach these mills , go to the Denim Fabric section on Indiahsomepage

  • Hellenic Mills (Greece) expected to show slight recovery

    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 2005.

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    HELLENIC MILLS FINANCIALS      
    , 2006 2005  
    Turnover 84.17 88.21 (Million Euros)
    PBT(profit before tax) 0.21 7.34 (Million Euros)
    Net Profit 0.11 5.02 (Million Euros)
    EPS 0.01 0.38 Euros

  • Gokaldas Images plans to manufacture denim

    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 inhouse for the fabric. But it needs to be remembered that it will take them some time before they can match the standards of the fabrics supplied by their current suppliers (many of which are nominated by the buyers)  .  However, it is not that this kind of backward integration is uncommon. Apparel exporters have done it before in  countries like Bangladesh,Turkey etc.

    Anyway, we wish them all the best ..

    Sandeep