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ANALYSIS: Mauritius emerges as sustainable sourcing hub
2014-05-15 16:28:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Strategically located along the trading route between Asia and Africa, Mauritius is fast emerging as a major sourcing hub for textile and apparel products. Despite low-cost competition from Asia, the industry has successfully navigated its way through a plethora of challenges in the last few decades to emerge as a now high-tech, dynamic, and vertically integrated sector. Michelle Russell takes a closer look.
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mauritius
hub
sustainable
ANALYSIS: Mauritius makers upbeat for AGOA renewal
2014-05-12 15:54:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
In little over a year, the AGOA trade preference programme is due to expire. The programme, which provides duty-free entry into the US for certain goods, has been particularly effective for Mauritian textile and apparel manufacturers, most of whom are optimistic the deal will be renewed. Michelle Russell reports.
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makers
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renewal
Mauritius overview: Textile and apparel firms talk tactics
2014-05-08 18:12:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Mauritian textile and apparel industry has overtaken sugar to become the country's largest export, with a turnover of around US$885m in 2013, a marginal increase of just 0.07% over the year before. Local textile and clothing manufacturers are working hard to sustain this growth, with several sharing their future ambitions with just-style.
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overview
apparel
firms
MAURITIUS: Investment key to textile and apparel export growth
2014-05-05 22:07:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Mauritius Export Association (MEXA) says the country's textile and apparel industry needs investment in additional capacity if it is to reach a double-digit increase in exports in the long term.
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growth
investment
export
ANALYSIS: Mauritius makers confident of export growth
2014-05-05 21:47:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Mauritius Export Association (MEXA) is confident the country can reach a double-digit increase in textile and apparel exports in the long term, despite depression in markets like the UK and South Africa. But it all hinges on an expansion of capacity in fibre, yarn and fabric manufacturing, as Michelle Russell reports.
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growth
export
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