Category: Apparel

May 26, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s MAS Holdings, a big apparel exporter, has partnered with UNESCO Bangkok to educate school children on sustainable development, a company statement said. The MAS ‘Eco Go Beyond’ programme, started in May 2006, provides 11,260 Sri Lankan students theoretical and practical knowledge of sustainable development. According to MAS, students […]

May 23, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government said it was pressing ahead with applying for trade concessions from the European Union in October but warned industrialists not to depend on trade concessions. Rajapaksa warned last month that if the trade concessions are lost the private sector should improve productivity and “face the challenge.” Industry […]

May 22, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s apparel giant Brandix says its creations with an emphasis on eco-friendliness will be on display on the second day of a three day exposition in Colombo starting on May 30. On June 01, 60 items of lingerie, loungewear and casual wear designed by Brandix’ creative team will be […]

May 18, 2008 (LBO) – Built on the naturally sloping ground inside the 180-acre Thulhiriya Fabric Park, north of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, surrounded by patches of greenery and pools of water stands a building. At first glance, the MAS group’s new lingerie factory that manufactures exclusively for Marks and Spencer looks like any […]

April 28, 2008 (LBO) – A dispute over Sri Lanka’s duty free access to key European markets has snowballed into a political hot potato with exporters alarmed that remarks by the country’s central bank governor could prompt buyers to look elsewhere. Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal’s comment that market access under the GSP+ scheme was a […]

April 28, 2008 (LBO) – India has lifted a rule that required three million pieces of Sri Lankan garments allowed duty to free to India to be made from Indian fabric and also lifted entry port restrictions, the Commerce Department said. . Another five million pieces of garments would be allowed in duty free or […]

April 25, 2008 (LBO) – UK retailer, Marks & Spencer says a newly re-built eco-friendly apparel factory in Sri Lanka is part of a plan that will see all operations being ‘greened’ by 2012, in response to growing environmental consciousness in its markets. M&S, commissioned a completely re-built ‘green’ casual wear manufacturing plant run by […]

April 15, 2008 (PBO) Sri Lanka’s Brandix Group, which exports clothes to international retailer Marks & Spencer, has spent 2.5 million dollars to redesign a 30-year-old factory to meet ‘green’ factory standards. The conversion achieved a 45 percent saving in energy, cut water consumption by nearly 60 percent, improved solid waste management and reduced carbon […]

April 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is making every effort to extend European Union trade concessions but local producers should also find ways to increase exports without the tariff benefit known as GSP+, officials said. “To get tariff benefits we will do everything we can do, but we will not give away sovereignty,” Sri […]

March 5, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s key clothing industry is rolling out a publicity blitz to attract shop floor workers to fill nearly 12,000 vacancies in plants across the island, industry officials said.A 280,000-dollar campaign will hit the local airwaves this week, as a team of recruiters and animators target 150 rural villages to […]

Jan 29, 2007 (LBO) — Sri Lanka’s top apparel maker Brandix has penetrated the ‘organic’ garment market with a number of top international labels placing orders, the company said. It supplies Gap, Marks & Spencer, Victoria’s Secret, NEXT, Lands End, Ann Taylor, Abercrombie & Fitch and Tommy Hilfiger. Brandix has already supplied more than 10,000 […]

Nov 14, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s apparel makers are making inroads into design, collaborating closely with international brands to becoming an integral link in the supply chain of a fashionably evolving global industry. Sri Lanka’s top apparel makers stepped into the design stage of garments about five years ago, but are now getting deeper […]