Adidas continues Cambodia purchasing growth; manufacturers call for wage cut June 24, 2020 Cambodia’s Garment Manufacturing Association has asked the government to suspend the country’s minimum wage as companies struggle to deal with falling demand. While the apparel industry has done poorly recently, shipments from Cambodia to the U.S. have not suffered as much as others from the C... Read more →
PVH, H&M cut imports as Bangladeshi apparel faces COVID-19 demand drop June 10, 2020 Bangladesh’s apparel industry has faced significant challenges due to cancelled orders from retailers across Europe and the Americas during COVID-19. That resulted in manufacturing output falling by 55.6% in May according to industry associate BGMEA. U.S. seaborne imports of apparel from Bangl... Read more →
Levi Strauss, Adidas face second-order Cambodian COVID-19 disruptions March 11, 2020 The Cambodian garment industry faces widespread shutdowns due to a shortage of raw materials linked to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak according to the country’s labor ministry. Cambodia represented 1.5% of global apparel exports in 2016 while apparel and textiles represented 67.0% of Cambod... Read more →