Hirdaramani Celebrates World Environment Day 2015

Textured Jersey Lanka (TJL), Sri Lanka’s leading sustainability-driven mill, together with the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS), Asia’s pioneering nature conservation movement, entered into a trendsetting five-year MoU which was signed recently at the Presidential Secretariat premises, in the presence of President Maithripala Sirisena.

As Sri Lankan annual apparel exports closed in on the crucial $ 5 billion mark, South America’s largest apparel market was given a preview of Lankan fashion when the Brazil International Apparel Sourcing Show 2015 (BIAS 2015) opened in Sao Paulo on 27 May.

MAS Intimates Managing Director and MAS Holdings Group Director Dian Gomes receives an award from PVH Chief Supply Chain Officer Bill McRaith in the presence of PVH EVP – Global Supply Chain Mark Green

MAS Holdings was recognised at the PVH Corp. Global Supply Chain Summit held in Phuket, Thailand recently.

50,000 workers already enrolled. JAAF plans more privileges and wider benefits in the next few months

Ahamed Rheyas exchanging documents with CH17 CEO Jumar Preena while CH17 Director Marketing Nimashi Wickramaratne and Harcourts Group Director Ivo Fernando look on

Textured Jersey Lanka PLC (TJL) has emerged the overall victor at the World Textile Awards in London, by winning the topmost award across all categories and being bestowed the much sought after global title ‘Firm of The Year’.

In 2014, AOD became the first ever Sri Lankan campus entry to the acclaimed Graduate Fashion Week in the UK. Championing this streak into 2015, the apparel giants Brandix and Orient Design collaborated with AOD design campus’ budding fashion star Ishara Jayathilake to create yet another winning collection.

The country’s apparel industry should look for new business models which could help Sri Lanka get ahead of the innovation curve, a sector specialist recommended last week. Brandix Lanka Ltd. Director Udena Wickremesooriya said Sri Lanka could become an ‘apparel isle’ similar to Silicon Valley by getting ahead of the innovation curve.

MasterCard Country Manager for Sri Lanka and Maldives R. B. Santosh Kumar recently met up with Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) Secretary General Tuli Cooray and discussed the Ransalu Pranama worker welfare program. Jumar Preena, Chief Executive Officer of CH17, the initiative’s owner and implementer agency was also present at the meeting.

One of the world’s largest apparel companies has adjudged the Brandix Group its Global Supplier of the Year across all product categories represented by its global vendor base, presenting Sri Lanka’s single largest apparel exporter with the pinnacle award at the company’s Global Supply Chain Summit.