MARKET & ECONOMY​

After years of tailoring and military inspired designs dominating men’s fashion and style, 2016 saw a swing back to a more comfortable and relaxed style of dressing giving rise to the Athleisure trend.

ICA Bremen will deliver its six day ‘Cotton Classing & Testing’ training programme, from May 9-16, 2017 followed by the popular ‘Learning about Machinery’ training course from May 18-19 in Germany.

The Rieter Group achieved an order intake of CHF 905.2 million in the 2016 financial year, which represents an increase of 13 per cent compared to the previous year (CHF +103.6 million).

Effective January 2, 2017 Groz-Beckert has taken over the Ferd. Schmetz Group, which is a long-established producer of industrial sewing machine needles and has around 700 employees worldwide.

KARL MAYER, the market leader in the fields of warp knitting, warp preparation and machinery for technical textiles, is celebrating its 80-year anniversary this year.

As major British apparel retailer Next Plc slashed its work order volume, Bangladesh has already started feeling the pinch of Brexit, claims a senior official of a sourcing company. The UK is the third largest garment export destination for Bangladesh after the US and Germany.