Tag: Clothing
Big growth opportunity for Capetonian clothing and textile SMEs with City-funded Origin8 programme
The City of Cape Town is calling on Cape Town-based small and medium-sized enterprises in the clothing, textile, footwear, and leather (CTFL) sector to apply now to participate in ‘Origin8: From...
CCTC Launches Origin8 Programme to accelerator SME Growth in the Clothing, Textile, Footwear and...
The Cape Clothing & Textile Cluster (CCTC) is excited to announce the launch of “Origin8: From Start-up to Scale-up”, a programme that is designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...
From start-up to scale-up: SMEs discover what big clothing and textile customers are looking...
On Tuesday, 21st May, over 40 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the clothing, textile, footwear, and leather (CTFL) sector gathered for the KwaZulu-Natal Clothing & Textile Cluster Origin8 workshop. This...
Clothing industry graduates stitch new opportunities with City-funded leadership programme
MAYORAL Committee Member for Economic Growth, Alderman James Vos joined the Cape Clothing and Textile Cluster (CCTC), the City’s partner in the industry, for a graduation ceremony to celebrate 66 young...
Proudly South African TFG is growing the clothing manufacturing sector
By Sue Segar
IN 2008, Graham Choice, founder of Prestige Clothing and now TFG’s Managing Director of Merchandise Supply Chain, discovered an old shed containing redundant machinery in the small farming town,...
Major new clothing and textile distribution centre set to open in Cape Town
This week, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, Alderman James Vos, visited the development site of a new clothing and textile distribution centre for Truworths International Limited which, once...
136 Cape Town youth boosted by learnership and work placements in the local clothing...
THIS month saw a further 119 learners graduate from the Cape Skills and Employment Accelerator – a City of Cape Town-funded project, administered by the Craft + Design Institute’s (CDI), that...
City and Wesgro work hand in glove to secure investments
This week is the start of the new financial year with a renewed focus on programmes aimed at assisting all sectors and levels of the economy, from work-seekers to entrepreneurs, small...
No Christmas bonus for SA’s top retailers
SA’s floundering economy has resulted in two of its largest clothing retailers, Mr Price and Woolworths, reporting disappointing growth for the festive season.
Their trading updates triggered the biggest single-day drop on...
LOCAL versus EXPORT The dilemma of an emerging clothing brand in South Africa
With the growing awareness of the inequity brought about by globalization, “The Fashion Revolution” advocates Fair Trade, ethical, sustainable fashion, made and distributed at a local level. The question being asked...
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