Global garment and footwear manufacturer Superhouse Ltd has become the latest company to sign up to exhibit at the Workwear and Corporate Clothing Show at the Birmingham NEC on 1st and 2nd April 2009. 
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Bena (rhymes with Rene ) Burda, the founder of Maggie's Organics - the leader in manufacturing Fair Trade clothing and accessories made with Certified Organic Fibers is championing a crusade to create worker-owned cooperatives to energize local economies and empower workers. 
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The economic meltdown and the resultant recessionary trends have slowly but surely started showing its true colours. The tentacles of the meltdown are not showing any discretion between developed, developing and under developing countries. It is leaving in its wake devastation, similar to a tsunami. 
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World cotton production in 2008/09 is forecast at 112.9 million bales, down 6.4 percent from the previous year when production was at a near-record. The decline in global production, which is the largest in six years, derives from a drop in major producing countries. Between 2007/08 and 2008/09, production in the United States, Brazil, Uzbekistan, and China are estimated to decline 29.6 percent, 15.1 percent, 7.3 percent, and 1.4 percent respectively. 
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The International Labour Organization's (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia released its "21st Synthesis Report on Working Conditions in Cambodia's Garment Sector," which assesses compliance with Cambodian labour law and international labour standards in garment factories. 
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State-owned Janata Bank Ltd will open today a branch at Motijheel exclusively to cater to the need of non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs), first of its kind in the country. 
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