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		<title>Schumer Introduces Legislation to Protect Fashion Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC – Following a year of detailed negotiations with fashion industry stakeholders, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) today introduced the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (S. 3728), a realistic and practical approach that will offer intellectual property protection to unique and original fashion designs.
Supported by the American Apparel &#38; Footwear Association (AAFA) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zara turns focus to e-commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[India: Spanish textiles firm Inditex Group has said it will open an e-commerce store for the Zara brand later this week. Inditex’s CEO and deputy chairman Pablo Isla has defined the launch as &#8220;an important strategic step.&#8221;
The launch will include Spain, France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Portugal with the company saying it will be followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hermes adds global equity portfolio manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zu Cowperthwaite joined Hermes Fund Managers in Boston as a portfolio manager on the firm&#8217;s global equities team, confirmed John Chisholm, an institutional portfolio manager with the firm.
Her post, responsible for stock selection in the global consumer sector, is new. She becomes the global equities team&#8217;s eighth member.
Ms. Cowperthwaite was co-portfolio manager of a Loomis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilebuyers.com/hermes-adds-global-equity-portfolio-manager</link>
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		<title>New Textile Plants Constructed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zhejiang Litian Group signed an agreement with Wensu local government in August 12th to invest a 100,000 spindles line, 10 ring spinning lines, 300,000 sets of home textile lines and two weaving bags lines.
Zhejiang Litian Group is a large company invloving in home textile, fabrics manufacturing, plastics, printing and trade. Under this agreement, this project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricky Bearden Succeeds Ted Sheely As Cotton Incorporated Chairman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York, NY &#8211; Paris, Texas cotton producer Ricky Bearden was unanimously voted in as the Cotton Incorporated Board Chairman for the 2010 through 2012 term. Bearden succeeds California grower Ted Sheely, who held the post for the prior two years. Mr. Bearden brings more than 30 years of practical experience as a cotton producer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business leaders demand quick release of stimulus package</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bangladesh: UNB, Dhaka The government does not plan to lower the interest rate right now, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Tuesday. &#8220;We&#8217;re not in a position to assure you of lowering the interest rate,&#8221; Muhith said while replying to business leaders at a meeting held at the secretariat on Tuesday. Presidents of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BGMEA lauds govt decision to revive 270 sick RMG units</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bangladesh: BGMEA Thursday appreciated the government&#8217;s latest decision of reviving 270 sick garment factories to help rehabilitate the units by resuming production.
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) in a statement said the decision has proved that the government is industry and labour-friendly.
The government&#8217;s decision came considering the important role of the ready-made garments (RMG) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilebuyers.com/bgmea-lauds-govt-decision-to-revive-270-sick-rmg-units</link>
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		<title>Dayanidhi Maran Welcome Incentives Announced To Push</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Union Textiles Minister Thiru. Dayanidhi Maran, has expressed satisfaction over the recently announced Annual Supplement 2010-11 to the Foreign Trade Policy 2009- 14. He hoped that the incentives offered would result in increase in exports of handicrafts items and this initiative would help the sector maintain the growth and achieve its export target of Rs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilebuyers.com/dayanidhi-maran-welcome-incentives-announced-to-push</link>
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		<title>Sops to Textile Units in Eleventh Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[India: As per information available with the Ministry of Textiles, a total of 334 textile mills were enlisted with the Textile Commissioner’s Office, Mumbai, during the Eleventh Plan. These included 177 non-SSI spinning units, 11 non-SSI composite mills, 138 SSI spinning units and 8 Exclusive Weaving Mills. Information relating to the units that came up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textilebuyers.com/sops-to-textile-units-in-eleventh-plan</link>
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		<title>Australian Industry Group comment on federal election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia: “The prospect of a hung parliament and a Senate where a minor party holds the balance of power in its own right, is a worrying outcome for business. It will potentially lead to instability, uncertainty and short-termism in policy development, all of which poses risks and challenges for the economy,” Australian Industry Group Chief [...]]]></description>
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