Zimbabwe Textile News Summaries

ZIMBABWE: US$ One Million NID Project for Craftswomen of Africa
The project will be launched in Zimbabwe in February 2012 with the team from NID visiting Zimbabwe for identification of 25 craftswomen, who would be later trained in India, in collaboration with New Basket Workshop Foundation, an African NGO.

ZIMBABWE: Demand to raise cotton prices
Cotton prices in Zimbabwe are likely to rise owing to firm demand on the international market.

ZIMBABWE: Future of Zimbabwe's cotton industry under threa
A shortage of seedcotton looms in Zimbabwe, as foreign buyers have asserted themselves in the cotton industry and are buying the multiplication seed for export, Xinhua has learnt.

ZIMBABWE: Govt plans legal instrument to govern cotton farmers
With an aim to govern cotton growers and contractors to safeguard the farmers from being ripped off by the companies buying the crop, the government...

ZIMBABWE: Measures to weed out unscrupulous cotton traders
Good sense is expected to prevail in the cotton industry, which has fallen prey to side-marketing. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has announced an array of measures to weed out unscrupulous traders.Merchants would be required to

ZIMBABWE: Textile sector unhappy over new duty regulations
The Government’s has recently expanded the duty net to include clothing in the list of imported products which are defined as luxuries whose customs duty should be paid for in foreign currency. The government's recent duty regulations

ZIMBABWE: Heinz sells its stake in Olivine to cotton company
U.S. food giant H. J. Heinz Co., one of Zimbabwe's first major foreign investors has sold its Zimbabwe interests to a government controlled cotton company Cottco. Cottco, is the main cotton buyers and processors in which the government

ZIMBABWE: Garment company gets US$ 200 million loan
Passion View Garment, a garment making firm has been sanctioned a $200 million loan as working capital by the Small Enterprises Development Corporation (SEDCO) to start operations. The SEDCO loan would be used to buy materials to start production.

ZIMBABWE: Cotton industry plans considerable production increase
Zimbabwe's cotton industry plans to expand production from an estimated 270,000 this year by increasing the hectarage put under cotton by 40 per cent every year.

ZIMBABWE: Cotton crop yet to be picked due to transport shortage
Several acres of cotton is still to be picked from the fields due to the shortage of transport and high cost of transportation.

ZIMBABWE: Systematic increase in hectarage to achieve set cotton output
The systematic increase in hectarage and recruitment of new farmers by the National...

ZIMBABWE: Textile company on recovery path
The textile giant, David Whitehead Textile Limited, is valued at $312 billion. The company needs an investor to inject the much needed capital for its revival.

ZIMBABWE: Textile exhibition opens
Textile, paint and sculptor exhibition, named "Woman of Stone and Cloth" opened on March 12 in here...

ZIMBABWE: Textile Unions begin pushing for a review of employee contracts
Textile Unions began pushing for a review of employee contracts by textile firms following a highly-critical Labour Court judgement this week that accused sector operators of gross negligence over worker welfare...

ZIMBABWE: Cotton industry should invest in R&D: Mr Zhuwawo
The cotton industry has been urged to invest in research and development of biotechnology to be the leader at the forefront in promoting biotechnology, Science and Technology Deputy Minister...

ZIMBABWE: Textile sector passing through recession
Zimbabwe's textile sector passing through trouble over the past five years. About 8 000 workers have lost their jobs over the same period while the fate of 16 000 more is uncertain due an influx of cheap Chinese imports that have hurt demand for domestic products...

ZIMBABWE: Clothing industry hit by shortage of fabric
Country's clothing industry has been hit by shortage of fabrics resulting in the shrinking of jobs in the sector...

ZIMBABWE: The ‘Head to Foot’ fashion exhibition aims youth
The National Gallery of Zimbabwe launched the ‘Head to Foot’ fashion exhibition on 12th October...

ZIMBABWE: Textile industry breaks through to erstwhile non-traditional market
The textile and clothing industry has managed to break through to the erstwhile non-traditional American market; a newspaper reported here on July 26...

ZIMBABWE: Govt to take over David Whitehead, Fresca
Government's plans to take over David Whitehead Textiles and Fresca Holdings (Fresca) are now at an advanced stage following revelations that due diligence exercises into the two financially-distressed firms have been completed; Pias Munemo, IDC's projects development executive said...

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