Despite making its name as a fabrics manufacturer, US company Glen Raven is looking beyond its traditional strengths to take advantage of lucrative opportunities throughout Asia.

Liz Claiborne subsidiary Juicy Couture will open a retail store in Toronto, Canada.

With the old textile quota regime abolished, producers are repositioning themselves to capture a piece of the global market. Courtney Fingar  reports on the likely winners and losers.

The new year brought a new look for the global textile market, with the expiry of a quota system that has coloured it for three decades. Whether this is an improvement on the old look depends on who you ask.

The World Trade Organisation’s Multi-Fibre Agreement, which ended on January 1 this year, is now viewed by many as having distorted world textile trade.