From May 14 to 16 in Guatemala, textile exporters from the region will meet with international buyers at Apparel Sourcing Show, to explore business opportunities.
The objective of the event is to allow all members of the Central American industry value chain to expose their capabilities to buyers and promote the integration of the supply chain.
The Chamber of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica is recruiting businessmen who wish to attend a business roundtable, to be held from May 13 to 17 in the city of Brusque, Santa Catalina in southern Brazil.
Depending on the profile of each company, there is the option of covering tickets and lodging for one attendee per company at the event, informed authorities of the Costa Rican Chamber of Foreign Trade (Crecex).
In an industry fair to be held in May in Guatemala, organizers expect to generate around $700 million in trade deals.
The Apparel Sourcing Show will be held in Guatemala on the days from the 15th to the 17th of next month. This costume and textiles fair will be backed by buyers and suppliers from Brazil, Spain, Turkey, the USA and China.
Within the framework of the Apparel Sourcing Show, a delegation of Chinese textile entrepreneurs will be visiting the country in May, to explore business opportunities in the sector.
The Apparel Sourcing Show event will be held from May 23 to 25 at the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel, and will bring together textile companies from the Central American region and from other countries.
A meeting is being convened for the textile and clothing industry on March 16 in El Salvador, where the overall situation in the sector will be discussed.
From a statement issued by Proesa:
El Salvador is preparing for the third edition of the Forum of Textiles and Apparel (FOROTEX) 2016, a space where high-level international speakers present trends and strategies for competing in international markets.
80% of the volume exported by the Honduran maquila sector in the first half of 2014 corresponds to textiles, 15% to harnesses, and the remaining 5% to other goods.
A report by the Central Bank of Honduras (BCH) specifies that when comparing the figure for the first half of this year with the same period of 2013, "... A slight increase of $8.2 million is observed. "
The implementation of lean manufacturing systems reduces from two hours to five minutes the time it takes to make a garment.
This system, introduced in the textile fair Apparel Sourcing Show 2014, in Guatemala, unifies in a set sequence the "value" steps of the manufacturing process, completely eliminating "waste" steps resulting in higher productivity and resource optimization so that the number of operators needed to make a garment is only nine instead of fifty.
On May 20th-22nd the XXIII edition of the Apparel Sourcing Show will be held with the presence of companies in the region and international buyers.
The international event will be held at the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel, where it is expected that 500 exhibiting companies will take part along with five thousand potential buyers from various textile countries in Latin America and elsewhere.
In 2011 the country imported $251 million worth of clothes, an increase of 12% compared to the previous year.
Examples of some of the data in the report:
Imports of men and childrens shirts increased by 46% between 2010 and 2011, going from $18.1 million to $26.5 million imported in 2011.
Meanwhile, imports of suits, ensembles, jackets (coats), dresses, skirts, skirt-shorts,trousers, breeches, and shorts, and shorts for women and girls increased by 13% between 2010 and 2011, and represented the largest increase in monetary level, going from $66 million to $74.7 million imported in 2011.
The organizers of Inexmoda are promoting contacts with Panamanian businessmen in order to open new stores and develop business with Colombian fashion brands.
"Panama has been chosen because it is a strategic country on route of the tour made by Inexmoda and Proexport in Colombia and other countries to encourage investors to participate in this space created with the purpose of bringing together Colombian brands and international businesses interested in expanding their markets by opening new stores and develop their business under expansion models such as franchises, licenses, exclusive distribution and joint ventures, among other things," reported Capital.com.pa.
The twenty-first edition of the leading trade fair for the apparel and textile sectors in Guatemala at regional level, begins with 200 booths, 186 companies and 30 international corporations.
Machinery Suppliers, high technology, and textile companies will offer their products and services in a space of over 2,000 square meters
More than 100 companies in Latin America will gather to exhibit products related to textiles, clothing and accessories.
The public-private trade mission to a trade fair entitled ‘Magic 2011’ has succeeded in getting U.S. interest in importing textiles and clothing from Nicaragua.
Over a hundred contacts with potential buyers were made in the meeting which will be exploited with a "marketing effort," said Javier Chamorro, Executive Director of ProNicaragua.
The private sector, together with the government, is developing a marketing strategy in order to promote the Nicaraguan textile industry abroad.
In an effort to attract private capital, Nicaragua will participate in the international exhibition ‘Magic’ in Las Vegas.
This will be the first time Nicaragua takes part the fair, in which individual Nicaraguan companies have attended in previous years, but independently.
This time the country has the support of the investment promotion agency ProNicaragua, which aims to incorporate this type of promotional activity into the country’s export promotion strategy.
The National Association of Clothes Makers has proposes the creation of an exhibition fair for the textile industry in the country.
Augusto Corro, president of the Association, explained that an event of this type, where trade is allowed, it is important for the sector, given that exports of this segment have been declining.
The employer noted that the country has lost its position as leading exporter of textile products from Central America to the United States, a position it held during the 90's.