Category: Apparel

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. online pharmacy buy abilify with best prices today in the USA buy synthroid online https://www.indcheminternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/png/synthroid.html no prescription pharmacy buy champix online […]

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 […]

Oct 16, (2007) A woven fabric processor of the Sri Lanka apparel giant Brandix has won fair trade certification, allowing the group to penetrate niche markets, the company said. online pharmacy buy strattera with best prices today in the USA online pharmacy buy diflucan with best prices today in the USA buy oseltamivir online https://www.indcheminternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/png/oseltamivir.html […]

August 10, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan apparel exporters have been advised to focus attention on the industry’s impact on the environment or ‘footprint’ and the chemical composition of its products in response to rising European consumer demands. The industry’s decision to specialise in the manufacture of intimate wear, lingerie and underwear is paying off […]

July 27, 2007 (LBO) – A new joint venture with a Spain-based firm will fill a gap in synthetic fabric printing capacity, especially in swimwear, Sri Lanka’s MAS apparel group said Friday. The group through its unit, MAS Capital (Pvt) Ltd had inked a deal on July 19 with Textprint S.A of Spain to start […]

July 19, 2007 (LBO) – One of Sri Lanka’s top clothing exporters, Brandix Lanka, has hired fashionable fast bowler Lasith Malinga as the group’s ‘brand ambassador’. Malinga, whose tinted curls and explosive round arm action made him a star attraction at the 2007 Cricket World Cup, will promote its corporate social responsibility and human resources […]

June 08, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s garments industry has increased sourcing of fabric from the region and making accessories at home under its backward integration plan to strengthen its base, an industry official said. In 2003 the industry imported 194 million dollars worth of accessories and trims but this fell to 181 million dollars […]

May 30, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan apparel Giant MAS Holdings is building a ‘Green Plant’ through its partnership with UK’s Marks & Spencer, to reduce waste and be environmentally friendly. The firm says it is developing a bio degradable packaging and card board hangers and has been sourcing part of its organic cotton supplies […]

March 28, 2007 (LBO) – The Brandix group has been named the top apparel exporter by Sri Lanka’s export promotion agency, the company said Wednesday. It makes casual bottoms, intimate and active wear, textiles, knitted fabrics, sewing and embroidery thread, accessories and hangers, and offers wet processing and finishing and fabric printing. Brandix said it […]