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Press Release 17 January 2019
Apparel Sourcing Week, India brings leading manufacturers from Bangladesh to showcase strengths
| A wide selection of quality products in various categories at value prices is what Apparel Sourcing Week, India 2019 will be offering to its visitors. When benchmarked apparel exporters like Pacific Jeans, Apex Lingerie Limited and Epic Designers come together on the same platform to exhibit the best of their collections, there cannot be a better place to be for the retailers than Apparel Sourcing Week, India, which is to be held in Bengaluru on 15th and 16th March 2019. |
| Pacific Jeans, which is one of the largest groups in Bangladesh and is considered among the leaders in the denim market especially with regard to producing sustainable and innovative denim products, is one of the biggest attractions of the event. The denim connoisseur, which till date showcases only in Europe, has five production units across Bangladesh, annually producing 30 million pieces of world- class denim bottoms with an annual turnover of US $ 400 million. |
| Pacific has set up its own product development lab - Pacific Jeans Innovation Centre (PJIC) that works in close collaboration with the leading fashion designers of premium denim brands from USA, Europe and Japan, to regularly come up with value-added innovations. Excited about the potential opportunities in Indian retail, this progressive and product development-oriented company that imports 95 per cent of fabrics from overseas, will be displaying casual denim bottoms in line with Indian market demands. |
| For those retailers/brands that are into lingerie and innerwear, Apex Lingerie Limited, one among the seven biggest companies of Apex Holdings Limited in Bangladesh, produces women's and men's innerwear, night suits and shapewear – a wide range of products that has helped the company add to its esteemed list of clienteles, retail stalwarts like Walmart, Zara, H&M, Target, Hanes and Primark among several others. However, at the event, they will be majorly showcasing women’s lingerie, a growing category in Indian market. |
| Apex has its own state-of-the-art product development department staffed by textile engineers and professional fashion designers, who in synchronisation with Research and Development team, continue to develop new fabrics, elastics, prints and other embellishments. The fashion designers and experts at Apex then use these to develop fashion and apparel items that are then exported to several countries and continents. The company annually manufactures two million pieces of lingerie items, each of which could be a buyer’s delight at the sourcing event. |
| The Epic Group, Hong Kong, is another respected name in the apparel industry that will be showcasing at the inaugural edition of Apparel Sourcing Week, India. The group has four manufacturing facilities spread over Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Jordan. Epic has an annual turnover of US $ 500 million in the region and the capacity to produce 36 million pieces annually. The Group – which is hailed as the single largest producer of non-denim woven bottoms and shirts in Bangladesh – puts together four collections annually and comes up with 100 new fabrics each season. |
| Their woven bottoms and shirts have already earned them reputed clients across USA, Central America, Europe, Canada and Japan and are sure to win them quite a few more customers at the Apparel Sourcing Week, India in March. They will be displaying a mix of their products at the event. |
| Apparel Sourcing Week, India will be a window for every Indian and overseas retailer to explore and buy the best and innovative products according to their specific needs and customer profile. With participation from the best of manufacturers and growing interest among a lot of retailers, the Apparel Sourcing Week, India is on the right track to become a platform for sourcing in the Asia-Pacific region in the times to come. |
About Apparel Sourcing Week 2023
Apparel Sourcing Week 2023, a two-days Sourcing Show not only provides the Asian manufacturers a platform to showcase their products & manufacturing capabilities to the Brands & Retailers from all over the world including India, but also extends them a chance to attend the multiple seminars (headed by industry experts), workshops, open-house discussions and networking opportunities organised during these three days, which would help the manufacturers get a better understanding of Indian and International Retail and evolving dynamics of sourcing in various markets and retail formats.
About the Organiser
Apparel Resources is well known for its benchmark publications – Apparel Online, StitchWorld and Resource Guide published from India, Bangladesh & Vietnam. These publications have been around in the industry for over 35 years, supporting, guiding and standing by garment exporters and the retail industry globally, providing them a platform to source better.