Indian-made apparel and footwear could become a significant player in global sourcing for brands such as Zara, H&M, Marks and Spencer, and ...

Ties and knots created dynamic but gentle ruching in fabrics, alongside oversize red sweater-skirts that sported another skirt nonchalantly...

The government is considering a proposal to cut duty on exports of hides and skins of bovine from the current 40 per cent with a view to bo...

The delay in refund of GST paid by some exporters for imports has also hampered the shipments as it has resulted in shortage of working cap...

"India has never imported hides so far and has met the demand from domestic supplies. USA produces a lot of cattle hide but due to high lab...

The meat industry will be happy if buffalo is removed from the definition of cattle, as the bulk of its exports is buffalo meat, unlike lea...

"The situation will stabilise if buffalo is excluded from the ban," a government official said on condition of anonymity.

Exporters body is planning to write to the environment ministry asking it to allow trading of buffaloes at animal markets like goat and she...

Nearly 70 per cent of the needs of the leather industry are met from hides of carcasses of animal dying naturally. Only the rest is availab...

The labour costs are just about 60% of what we need to pay here. Power supply can be brought in at a third of what the expenditure is in In...

There has been a delay in raw material supply from different parts of India as leather units are unable to pay cash to truck drivers carryi...

TVR is barely a year old. So far, it has refrained from commercial advertising. Vipul feels the company is too young, too small for an ad b...

Blame the slowdown on the economy coupled with an increase in prices of raw materials, some of which are also in short supply. To top it al...

Huge opportunities exists in Ethiopia and Egypt for leather industry, says a 19 member delegation led by industry body CII, which paid a fi...

Leather export seems to be on a growth overdrive. The footwear segment, the fastest-growing segment in the leather basket.

The proposal to add 4,000 sq mt of space, at an estimated investment of Rs 17 crore at the Chennai Trade Centre, which plays host to the an...

The recent clampdown by China on polluting tanneries has come as a boon to Indian leather goods exporters.