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RISE 2024: Advancing Gender Equality In Global Garment, Footwear & Home Textile Supply Chains

Textile Insights January 9, 2025

The 2024 Annual Report from RISE highlights its pivotal role in advancing gender equality and sustainability across global garment, footwear and home textile supply chains. With comprehensive programmes, strategic collaborations and transformative initiatives, RISE continues to empower workers,

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One-Earth Fashion Report Calls For Radical Reform In Global Fashion Industry

Textile Insights January 9, 2025

The One-Earth Fashion report by Public Eye has issued a clarion call for radical reform in the global fashion industry. Highlighting its outsized impact on the environment and society, the report lays out 33 actionable targets designed to align the industry with planetary boundaries and create a just, sustainable future. Fashion’s contribution to climate change, […]

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92% Indian Executives Consider Security Vulnerabilities As Primary Obstacle To Responsible AI Usage: Deloitte Report

Textile Insights January 9, 2025

According to the Deloitte Asia Pacific report ‘AI at a crossroads: Building trust as the path to scale’, about 92 per cent of Indian executives identify security vulnerabilities, including hacking and cyber threats, as a primary concern in AI adoption, while 91 per cent express significant concern about the privacy risks related to sensitive data in […]

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Give Before You Get!

Textile Insights January 9, 2025

The principle of reciprocity describes the tendency of human nature to want to offer something when something is received. You feel obliged to do something in return because something was done for you, writes Murugan Santhanam I felt so happy! Finally, I got an inquiry from our principal in Japan for Indian organic yarns. My […]

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AFWA’s 2024 Report Reveals Wages In Asia’s Garment Industry Fall Considerably Short Of Living Wage Benchmarks

Textile Insights December 10, 2024

The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) has released its much-anticipated Path to a Living Wage report, which highlights glaring disparities between garment workers’ earnings and the wages required for a dignified standard of living. Covering eight key garment producing nations, the report underscores how poverty level wages continue to trap millions in financial insecurity

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The ‘Addition By Subtraction’ Principle

Textile Insights December 9, 2024

By following the principle of ‘addition by subtraction’, company managements can eliminate inefficient machines and people and also customers that drag down efficiency, observes Murugan Santhanam “Can you increase value by subtracting something?” The management coach posed a thought-provoking question. I quickly ducked behind my book, hoping to avoid being called on by the

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T&A Demand Set To Revive As US Retail Shows Positive Trends

Textile Insights November 11, 2024

The Indian textiles and apparel (T&A) sector is finally on the revival path. If one goes by the recent export numbers, the cumulative exports in September 2024 have registered a significant growth of 12.38 per cent (Y-o-Y). In fact, at around $1.1 billion, the apparel exports from the country surged by 17.30 per cent in […]

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Goma Suri – What Is It and Why We Should Avoid It?

Textile Insights November 9, 2024

“They are Goma suri!” whispered my Japanese friend into my ear, making a curious motion with his hands, like rotating his closed hand on the palm of the other hand. “What?” I couldn’t quite grasp what he meant. Though I knew some Japanese, it was just enough to get by in casual conversations. He mentioned […]

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‘Tech-Enabled, Personalised And Sustainable Solutions To Drive India’s Corporate Travel Landscape’

Textile Insights October 10, 2024

India’s corporate travel sector, valued at over $10.6 billion, is entering a transformative phase, betting on new ways of working and technological disruption. Deloitte’s latest report highlights corporate travel innovation, which is essential for employee experience management and cost efficiency. The corporate travel sector market is projected to grow at 10.1 per cent

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EU-WCO Publishes Study On Rules Of Origin For Textiles And Vehicles

Textile Insights October 9, 2024

The EU-WCO Rules of Origin Africa Programme has released a new publication titled “A Comparative Study of the Rules of Origin in the Textiles and Vehicles Sectors,” which offers a detailed analysis of the product-specific rules (PSRs) across eight prominent free trade agreements (FTAs). These agreements include African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), East African