Yarn Expo, the leading yarn and fibre business platform in Asia, will have a special focus on green products with a number of yarn and fibre manufacturers which have endeavoured to introduce green products into the early stages of textile production, displaying their innovations to seek buyers. The expo is to be organised during October 11-13 in…

Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) has decided to open eight new stores In India over the next six months focusing on tier II cities. The addition of new stores would take its count to 24. H&M would add 1.60 lakh square feet of retail space by the end of 2017, totalling 6.50 lakh…

Federation of Indian Exports Organisation (FIEO) has urged the government to bring textile job works including embroidery, cutting and garmenting under the 5 per cent GST slab. As tasks like finishing, packing, washing or pressing, dyeing, knitting and more are outsourced by manufacturers, the association has appealed to place them under the lowest slab. In a letter…