The beginning of the systemic transformation was a period of structural challenge for Polish industry. In case of the textile industry it meant almost total collapse. Polish textile and clothing enterprises were supplanted by producers offering products of often poor quality, mainly from Asia....

The beginning of the systemic transformation was a period of structural challenge for Polish industry. In case of the textile industry it meant almost total collapse. Polish textile and clothing enterprises were supplanted by producers offering products of often poor quality, mainly from Asia....

The implementation of the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) renders both threats and opportunities to India’s Textile and Clothing (T&C) industry in the wake of liberal international trade in the sector. Firms acquire greater international...

Fashion marketing explores connection between fashion design and marketing including development, promotion, sales and price aspects of fashion industry. Successful fashion marketing managers are aware that the most important fashion marketing elements are customer trend identification, building...

At the present time, a very important issue is the employment problem in manufacture industry, especially in textile and clothing industry. This sector is very important for our country because it contributes almost with 20% from the Romanian total export and absorbs 1/5 from the total...

Sustaining economic growth is an important issue for developing countries; some countries show growth spurts and collapse in a short time, and many are trapped by the so-called middle-income trap. Mauritius also boasted rapid growth during the 1980s and 1990s, the period marked as an African...

It is well-known that the development of a country, the improvement of man’s material and moral well-being, in one word his freedom and happiness depends on work. This problem is more urgent for the Romania, because of the fact that the adherence to EU structures supposes to create an...

Farbolux Biliński is a medium-sized, family-owned company located in the region of Łódź in central Poland – Łódź has been a major centre of the Polish textiles and clothing industry since the 19th century. The company specialises in dying, bleaching, washing, tumbling, cutting and...

Kvadrat A/S is a leading textiles company, specialising in the design and sale of high-quality interior textiles. In addition to designing textiles for furniture and curtains, the company has extended it portfolio to include textile-related products, while entering new markets such as the retail...

Royal TenCate is a leading multinational textiles company located in the east of the Netherlands, whose core business is textile technology, ‘intelligent textiles’ and geotextiles. Since its establishment, which dates back to the 18th century, the company has successfully transformed itself...

The Italian textiles and clothing sector plays a major role in the national economy. However, companies in the sector face increasing international competition. In the Liri Valley clothing district, for example, the effects of globalisation have resulted in company closures. Many of the existing...

With almost 1,000 employees, Utenos Trikotažas is the largest apparel manufacturer in the Baltic states. It specialises in producing medium to high-quality knitted jersey products and underwear for large clothing retailers. The company provides the full production cycle for its customers,...

The concentration of textiles and clothing companies in the Herning-Ikast-Brande area of Jutland in western Denmark is due to a long history of crafts in the region. In the 1980s, this concentration was very important to the companies involved, as it attracted many potential customers to the...

The objective of this study is to present a scenario analysis that may be used as a vehicle to develop long-term visions of possible opportunities, barriers and threats for the European textiles and clothing sector and the sustainable development of its workforce. The objective is pursued as a...

The textiles and clothing industry represents a significant sector of economic activity in world trade and also within the European Union. It is a highly diverse and heterogeneous industry which covers a wide variety of end products ranging from hi-tech synthetic yarns to wool fabrics, from...

This paper is one of five case studies which is a part of a larger project looking at the various effects that trade and investment can have on innovation. This paper studies the effect of the ending of the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) on innovation in the Sri Lankan textile and clothing sector....

This paper is the first of four country case studies which is a part of a broader research programme addressing trade and structural adjustment issues in non-member economies which was conducted as a follow-up to Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation (OECD, 2005) which...

this chapter focuses on textile and clothing sector in boosting industrialization in developing countries.