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Olimpias
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Competitor
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Gruppo Miroglio e Fondazione Marcegaglia a sostegno delle donne
ruandesi
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A Year in Review: Sourcing winners and losers
A Year in Review: Suppliers winners and losers
Turkish textile exporters adapt to Russian sanctions
Ethiopia – The next international textile hub
Italian companies to invest in Pakistan
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Competitor
15 Dicembre 2015
Gruppo Miroglio e Fondazione Marcegaglia a
sostegno delle donne ruandesi
Il Gruppo Miroglio ha partecipato, lo scorso 28 e 29 novembre, con il brand Caractère
all’iniziativa benefica "Questo Natale dona col cuore”, mercatino natalizio organizzato
a Mantova dalla Fondazione Marcegaglia Onlus con l’obiettivo di sensibilizzare e
raccogliere fondi a favore di un progetto di solidarietà dedicato alle donne ruandesi.
Alcuni capi Caractère messi a disposizione della Fondazione Marcegaglia Onlus
Il Gruppo Miroglio per l’occasione ha messo a disposizione della Fondazione
Marcegaglia Onlus una selezione dei capi più distintivi della collezione Caractère
Autunno Inverno 2015-2016.
L’intera somma ricavata dalla vendita sarà destinata a favore del progetto “One Cow
Rwanda”, iniziativa a supporto di donne vedove e madri di famiglia che attraverso le
attività legate all’allevamento dei bovini vengono aiutate nel loro processo di riscatto
dalla condizione di povertà estrema in cui vivono.
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Turkish textile exporters adapt to Russian sanctions
Ready-to-wear exporters, who have been affected by crisis with Russia, seek new markets
in Africa
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ISTANBUL
Turkey's ready-to-wear exporters, who have been affected by the Moscow sanctions,
eye new markets in Africa to compensate the Russian losses in textile.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday in Istanbul, Hikmet Tanriverdi, head of the
Istanbul Ready-Made Garment Exporters' Association (IHKIB), said that the Russian
sanctions caused several risks for both Turkish and Russian economies as the two
countries have strong economic ties in such sectors as energy, food, and tourism,
alongside the textile sector.
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"Our textile export numbers with Russia have been already in decline for two years
due to the falling ruble and the Ukraine crisis. We were planning to boost the textile
export in 2016, but the Russian jet crisis has spiked our plans," Tanriverdi said.
Turkey downed the Russian SU-24 on Nov. 24 despite the fact that Ankara said it
had repeated warnings not to violate Turkish airspace, prompting angry reactions
from the Russian leadership.
Following the incident, Russia introduced a range of sanctions targeting Turkey,
ranging from restrictions on visa-free travel to a ban on imports of certain foodstuffs
and textile products.
Stating that the textile industry always thinks about the worst-case
scenario, Tanriverdi said: "Until the political situation between Turkey and
Russia clears up, we have decided to set new strategies to direct the textile exports
[originally destined for] Russia to the African market."
"We already have trade relations with Nigeria, and now we have some bilateral talks
with Cameroon. We are also planning to reach six more countries and a market of 35
million people via Cameroon. I hope we will double the ready-to-wear exports to
Africa in three years," Tanriverdi said.
As for Russia he said they did not want to lose hope "We have had a deep relationship
with Russia for hundreds of years. Turkish and Russian people also have friendly
relations, we are like relatives."
The foreign trade volume between the Turkey and Russia reached $31.2 billion in
2014 - a 17.3 percent increase from the previous year.
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Ethiopia – The next international textile hub
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Given the significant development of labour-intensive textile industry, Ethiopia is
eventually becoming the most sought after destination for production. And the ever busy
workers of the huge GG Super Garment factory in Debre Zeyit, Ethiopia prove this fact.
The company has hundreds of women and men sewing singlets and T-shirts for the
Swedish company H&M.
Factory Manager Joseph Elisso said, “Ethiopia is stable and peaceful, electrical power is
cheap and labour costs are very low.” With the rising prices and growing labour unrest in
Asia, Ethiopia is attracting many foreign companies like H&M to start sourcing from
Ethiopia. The country has a huge workforce and would like to become the next
international textile hub.
Recently a Korean delegation comprising giant textiles industrialist of Korea visited
Ethiopia. Kihak Sung, Chairman, Korea Federation Textile Industries said, “The existing
stable political system together and the favourable investment climate in Ethiopia have
attracted Korean textile manufacturers to invest in the sector.” He added that by using
Korean technology with Ethiopian labour force, Korean industrialist visualise making
Ethiopia a textile hub.
Entry-level salaries for workers in Ethiopia’s textile industry range from US $ 35 to US $
40 (32 to 37 euros) per month, even lower than Bangladesh’s minimum wage, which is
US $ 68 per month, and far below the average wage of US $ 500 in China. Though the
Ethiopian workers are struggling to make ends meet and regularly complain about their
low wages but they are also optimistic as increasing foreign investment is bringing them
jobs.
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ITALIAN COMPANIES TO INVEST IN PAKISTAN
Thursday, 17 December 2015
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Industries and Production Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi has said that
Pakistan is a safe country for investors and investments.
He said this while talking to Italian Trade Commissioner Riccardo Monti, who is on a two-day visit to
Pakistan.
The Minister welcomed Riccardo Monti in Pakistan and said that his visit to the country reflects his
country's interest to expand its trade and business relationship with Pakistan.
The Minster said that Pakistan has dedicated National Industrial Parks and Export Processing Zone with
special Tax concession where Italian companies can set up their units and also have opportunity to
establish their independent units to avail the same facilities, a statement of the Ministry of Industries
issued here today said.
Highlighting the initiative of the present government to promote trade and investment in the country, the
Minister said that Pakistan has become an investor friendly state where import of raw material has been
declared duty free and upto 80% of the finished products could be exported to other countries.
The Federal Minister also apprised Mr. Monti that the present Government has taken special measure to
provide security to the investors.
Historic tax concessions and attractive investment opportunities are being offered which are unparallel in
the whole region, the Minister asserted.
While discussing the potential areas to enhance cooperation in various sectors between two countries, the
Minister highlighted that in Pakistan there is the large potential to invest in auto mobile sector,
agriculture and textile machinery, power plant erections and re-fabrications.
Mr. Monti praised the quality of Pakistan's textile product and shown his country's interest to further
expand co-operation and investment in textile products and machinery, auto spare parts and
components, leather goods, and agriculture machinery.
He also offered to open vocational training and educational institutions here in Pakistan to provide
technical training to educated youth.
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