Garment retailers on space hunt

Garment retailers on space hunt
Business Standard, India
Pradipta Mukherjee / Kolkata April 03, 2014

Major garment brands are on a retail overdrive and are expected to create demand for over 100 units of quality retail space in the next one year, a development that will surely bring cheer to the many developers building retail space in the country.

Though some surveys have warned that there could be an oversupply situation in retail space in the end of 2014, the confidence and response of some of the major garment retailers reveal massive expansion plans driven by demand for quality retail space Read more about Garment retailers on space hunt

ITMA offering textile sample sale room


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Textile group joins High Point Design Center
The International Textile Market Association, producer of the Showtime fabric trade event held here each June and December, has joined the High Point Design Center and debuted the Market Square Textile Sample Sale Room to allow year-round sales of its members’ products to the design trade, including fabric, leather and trimming.
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Adams' garment art floats like gleaming, disembodied spirits

Adams’ garment art floats like gleaming, disembodied spirits
Sunday, April 01, 2014
Birmingham News, AL
PRIMA MATERIA. Recent Works by Katherine Adams. Tina Newton Gallery. Through April 30.

The collage/photograph prints by Katherine Adams are delightful, free-wheeling and sophisticated. She has developed a technique that manipulates photographs from a fixed state to a viscous one, enabling her to push and pull the colors into fragmentary abstractions. These newly created images float over a surface like spirit forces of colorful plasma, suggesting asymmetric Rorschach test patterns Read more about Adams' garment art floats like gleaming, disembodied spirits

Panasonic Lumix FX500 Digital Camera is Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen LCD

Panasonic Lumix FX500 Digital Camera is Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen LCD
High Tech Lounge, NY 

Touchscreens seem to be showing up everywhere these days and the realm of digital cameras is no exception.

The Panasonic Lumix Fx500 isn’t the first digital camera to feature a touchscreen display and it most certainly won’t be the last. It’s probably only a matter of time before we get multi-touch with haptic feedback or something too. Read more about Panasonic Lumix FX500 Digital Camera is Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen LCD

PE deals in textiles is a signal that India story is hot

PE deals in textiles is a signal that India story is hot
Economic Times, India

Will the global turmoil affect this India private equity deal space? Ever since the global financial turmoil began in January, this question has been frequently asked. Sequoia’s recent deal shows there is little impact on India yet.

Reportedly, Sequoia will invest up to Rs 120 crore in the rapidly growing garment retail business Nahar Retail. Better known by its brand name ‘Cotton County’, Nahar Retail attempts to do what very few have managed in India, build a profitable garment brand with an associated retail presence Read more about PE deals in textiles is a signal that India story is hot

India’s textile exports stitched-up by weak dollar

India’s textile exports stitched-up by weak dollar
Al-Bawaba, Jordan

Major marketing assault on Middle East markets starts with biggest-ever participation at Motexha 2014 the region’s largest garments & textiles show.India’s textile and clothing manufacturers – a vital component of the country’s economy – have launched an aggressive “Made in India” marketing push in the Middle East as they battle the impact of the weak US dollar and appreciating rupee on exports. Read more about India’s textile exports stitched-up by weak dollar