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Drawing 10,283 visitors from 230 Indian cities and five countries, Gartex Texprocess India 2025 reaffirmed its stature as a key business platform for the Indian textile industry. Featuring 125 exhibitors and covering the entire value chain, the expo served as a robust platform for textile technologies, innovations and sourcing.

Organised by Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd and MEX Exhibitions Pvt Ltd, the event also incorporated The Denim Show, Screen Print India – Textiles, and the Fabrics & Trims Show, offering industry stakeholders a unified source for knowledge exchange and business networking.

WTAI (Wazir - Textile & Apparel Index) FY25

The annual review of the textile and apparel industry for Fiscal Year 2025. This report offers a detailed snapshot of the sector’s overall performance, highlighting key financial and operational trends over the past year.

Textile Industry Performance (as per the Wazir Textile Index - WTI)

FY25 vs. FY24:

The WTI Sales Index recorded a year-over-year growth of 7%.

The WTI EBITDA Index rose by 6%, indicating improved operational earnings.

Following its highly anticipated and successful debut at Spring Fair 2025, Moda x Pure will make its return as a standout destination at Autumn Fair 2025, taking place from 7-10 September at the NEC Birmingham.

Bringing together four vibrant sectors—womenswear, clothing & footwear, fashion accessories, and jewelry & watches—Moda x Pure is fast becoming the must-visit destination for fashion retailers and industry professionals.

Our goal is to continue offering an inspiring space where innovation, creativity, and commerce come together under one roof.

Wazir Advisors | White Paper: Yarn Realization - Key to Profit in the Global Competitive Landscape for Indian Spinners.

The global textile industry is navigating a phase of significant disruption marked by escalating raw material costs, geopolitical tensions, supply chain instability, and intensifying global market dynamics. Spinning mills, positioned at the heart of the textile value chain, are now facing tighter yarn-fibre spreads and growing pressure on margins.

In this scenario, maintaining profitability requires a sharp focus on cost control and operational excellence. India’s spinning sector is at the forefront of these challenges. Mills are also grappling with supply chain constraints and intensified competition from countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China.

Commandments for India's corporate sector, including labor-intensive sectors such as textiles, are to diversify products effectively; businesses can:

Conduct market research: Understand customer needs, preferences, and trends.
Leverage existing strengths: Utilize core competencies, expertise, and resources.
Identify new opportunities. Explore adjacent markets, industries, or product categories.
Develop new products. Create innovative solutions that meet customer needs.

Advanced Management Program in Protech by NITRA
The Northern India Textile Research Association (NITRA) is hosting a four-day program on protective textiles (Protech) under the National Technical Textile Mission (NTTM).

About NITRA
NITRA is a renowned textile research organization with over 50 years of experience. It's a certified center of excellence in protective and automotive textiles.

Denim Show: Powering the Complete Denim Value Chain

Denim is a global fashion cornerstone, yet its creation involves a multi-layered value chain. The denim industry is dynamic and evolving from raw yarn to garment finishing. Denim Show connects every aspect of this ecosystem, providing a platform for innovation, collaboration, and sustainability across the entire denim value chain.

This is a chance for fashion brands and retailers to preview emerging trends in fabric textures, indigo tones, and weaving techniques. It’s also an opportunity to collaborate with mills at the development stage to stay ahead of fashion cycles.

Join our groupWe all hear statements daily from television, newspapers, politicians, and traders that the prices of food items, vegetables, medicines, and FMCG products are increasing by 10% to 30%, and are expected to increase further.

In such circumstances, over the last 2-3 years, the cost of production has increased, but garment and hosiery business owners, producers, and manufacturers have not raised prices and are not raising them either. A simple fact is that we, along with our families, especially the women in our households, are worried about the rapid rise in the prices of tomatoes, potatoes, chocolates, medicines, etc.

What should we do?

Over the past 4–6 years, CRC has invested deeply in research and innovation. As a result, we’ve developed what I call the “Box and Unbox” model—a unique approach to modern retail spaces. Roughly 50% of the space is “boxed,” meaning air-conditioned, enclosed environments. The other 50% is “unboxed”—open, vibrant, and organically integrated with the surroundings.

By “unboxed,” I mean we’ve curated an engaging high street experience. We’ve created a 20-meter-wide street promenade, a 1.5-acre amphitheater for music and events, and about 4 acres of green, cascading landscapes—all of which are in the process of receiving LEED certification.

Navigating U.S. Duty Pause: Global Impacts

Strategic Supply-Chain Realignments
Tariff uncertainty will reshape global sourcing strategies:
Diversification: U.S. importers may split orders across India, Mexico, Egypt, and Central America.
Strategic Partnerships: Joint ventures, warehousing hubs, and nearshoring arrangements will reduce duty risks.
Digital & ESG Compliance: Traceability and sustainability tools will be mandatory for continued market access.

However, long-term growth requires continued investment in infrastructure, dynamic labor laws, and sustained industry commitment.

The Trump administration announced hefty trade tariffs to be imposed on countries around the world. The high percentages imposed on US imports from garment producing countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Lesotho, and Vietnam mean that garment production will be heavily affected by these measures. The Clean Clothes Campaign network calls upon US and global garment companies to ensure that the costs for these new policies are not offloaded on those that can least afford it, the workers, and instead to absorb costs themselves rather than pushing them down the supply chain.

The panel discussion held during one of the knowledge sessions at the Startup Mahakumbh 2025 currently underway at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi (India) featured distinguished dignitaries, including Mahaveer Singhvi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs; Pankaj Jindal, Joint Secretary (TPL-II), CBDT; Ms. Bandana Priyashi, Secretary, Department of Industries, Government of Bihar; and Dr. Jitendra Kumar, Managing Director, BIRAC. The session was moderated by Ms. Ragini Kumar, Manager, Startup India.

Some of you here today—and perhaps even some of our budding startups in the audience—represent a truly bright future.