Employee Morale Project

Popular clothing companies, some of which you may be representing right now, outsource the production of their merchandise to Chinese factories.

The majority of clothing manufacturing resides within Asia, Central America and South America. In these regions there are risks associated with

Now it manufactures cotton shirting, denim, knits and bottomweights (Khakis) fabrics. In 2001 it started Advanced Materials Division which marked its entry into technical textiles business. It is India's largest denim manufacturer apart from being world’s fourth-largest producer and exporter of denim.

Some of the indicators of low morale can include a loss of interest and enthusiasm, excessive absenteeism, excessive sick leaves, excessive turnover, increase in accidents, increased number of complaints and grievances, negativism, noticeably less positive attitudes, to name a few.

Apparel industry in Sri Lanka has become one of the most important contributors to Sri Lanka’s GDP. In fact, the industry has grown enormously well during the past 3 decades bring opportunities for locals, internationals, and organizations. Moreover, Sri Lanka apparel industry has definitely helped the country’s development in numerous ways.

Tirupur, a small town in Tamil Nadu is the largest export center for knit wear production in India accounting for 20% of direct exports and 50% of all exports if re-exported sales to the big cities in India are included. Neetha’s study shows that the mills in the early phase 1925-70 were employing only male workers. In the next phase between 1970-85 production started to get more fragmented. Production facilities moved to Tirupur from Calcutta after a series of strikes. This period witnessed the decline of the local handloom industry leaving many

The English textile industry focuses on production of yarn, silk, cloth, etc. Manufacturing and distributing clothing. It is often created with material or using synthetic products. Many Jobs require spinning, looming, and warehouse. The following inventions include in the production were, Textiles, Steam Power, and Iron Funding.

Brazil ranks as the fourth largest exporter in the world excluding export of cotton fibre and the second largest employer in the country. The Brazilian textile and fashion industry has 30,000 companies and it is worth up to $63bn. This industry produces 9.5 million garments every year. There is a higher demand for Brazilian designers such as Oskelin, Carlos Miele, and Alexander Herchcovich within the growing middle class society. Brazilian Fashion Designers Association (ABEST) was started less than 10 years and now they have 54 members exporting textile to 48 countries. However, Brazilian Textile and Garment Association (ABIT) imports 60% of the garments worth up to $1.450bn from China and it is a 500% increase since 2006. The board of ABIT has raise awareness about the Brazilian textile industry at a governmental level and offer assistance to become more competitive. The problem is the production cost levels and the cost of labour in Brazil is higher. In addition, the international trade rules and procedures of Brazil are more complex and the international trade is not supported by any international agreements. As a result, the domestic market of Brazilian textile industry only produces for local retailers and customers. Brazil is an interesting case among the developing huge producers of textile around the world with its solid local business sector (Pasquinelli, 2012).

According to the data, the total volume of textiles exported from China has started a continuous rapid growth since 2001 (the year of China’s accession to the WTO) as shown in the first graph above, which roughly

The value of the top 10 exports of clothing in 2016 (US$), is shown in the graph 1. The data indicates that China (in the Global South) is the highest exporter of clothing in 2016 with 161.4 million US$. Whereas the USA (in the Global North) is the lowest exporter of clothing with 5.7 million US$. This demonstrates the great divide between countries of the Global North and South. The EU is ranked second with 117 million US$, though this relates to exports to other EU countries and the extra-EU accounts for exports to countries outside the EU. This data indicates that many companies are using countries where it is cheaper to produce clothes. Though it is apparent that there is a shift and more garments are being produced within the EU for the EU.

It has 1,725 direct suppliers, 6,298 factories involved in production. The 66% of the factories activity is manufacturing, and other units like cutting 5%, Fabric 10%, Finishing 9%, Printing 3%, Dyeing and Washing 7%.

Competitive Environment The Clothing industry is a very competitive in nature and due to this several sub segments have been created in the market and coupled with the number of players involved, in addition to the seasonal nature of the

Along with increasing the productivity of the workers, the industry as a whole has to be supported by the government by increasing and developing the present infrastructure, i.e. development of backward linkage, improve port facility, improve communication facilities, reduction of custom delays, setting up of export processing zones, etc. to improve the competitiveness of the Bangladesh garment industry.

The textile industry is a competitive industry with multiple sectors that represent unparalleled opportunities for global growth and success nationally and internationally. The textile industry is vulnerable to political and economic conditions that are monitored through regulatory trade agreements by the WTO; supply and demand along with market growth and competition keeps the industry evolving. For the scope of this analysis, detail will be focused on the textile industry as a whole with particular emphasis given to the U.S. textile manufacturers.

The Garment Industry of India is a Rs 1 trillion industry. Almost 33% of its knitwear production and about 20% of its woven-garment production, both by volume, enters export markets. Overall about 25 % of the volume of its garment production goes into export markets, leaving 75 % for domestic consumption.