Released on: January 15, 2008, 9:57 pm

Press Release Author: Bharat Book Bureau

Industry: Apparel & Fashion

Press Release Summary: Contribution of the textile sector to Indian economy is
reflected in terms of industrial production

Press Release Body: Contribution of the textile sector to Indian economy is
reflected in terms of industrial production, employment generation and foreign
exchange earnings. It contributes about 4% to the GDP, 14% to industrial production,
and 16% to India's country's export earnings. Thus the textile industry plays an
important role and is one of the key growth engines of the economy.

This Industry Insight answers the following key questions:
- What are the major sectors and trends in Indian textile & Clothing Industry?
- What is the Men's and women's apparel contribution to the total apparel market in
India?
- Global & Indian Scenario of Textile Industry?
- What are the Growth Trends, Segments, Consumer Behavior, Branding and Apparel
Retailing?
- What are the export opportunities, present scenario in International Trade and WTO
developments for?

Readers will develop and understanding of growth drivers of Indian Textile &
Clothing Industry along with issues & Challenges, regulatory Issues.It profiles Top
21 Major players containing details about the company, Products, Recent Strategies
describing the management. This report is a valuable resource for use for developing
company strategies and useful for expansion of business in this rapidly growing
industry.

This report is beneficial for
- Retailers like Wal-Mart
- Multi National textile companies outsourcing from india
- All major players in india across the value chain
- Regulators
- Indian associations
- Traders/Distributors
- Suppliers and intermediaries
- Export houses
- Institutes offering textile engineering and courses in Textile & Apparel (NIFT & NID)





Table of Contents : -

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. HIGHLIGHTS

3. INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 3.1 GLOBAL SCENARIO 3.1.1 MAJOR EXPORTERS AND IMPORTERS 3.1.2
SEGMENT-WISE MARKET SIZE OF CLOTHING 3.1.3 RETAILING SCENARIO 3.1.4 POST MFA
SCENARIO AND OUTLOOK 3.2 INDIAN SCENARIO 3.2.1 EVOLUTION 3.2.2 TEXTILE PRODUCTION
3.2.3 CLOTHING AND APPAREL 3.3 INDUSTRY STRUCTURE 3.3.1 TEXTILE VALUE CHAIN 3.3.2
SECTOR-WISE SCENARIO

4. CLOTHING AND APPAREL 4.1 SEGMENTS 4.1.1 MEN'S SEGMENT 4.1.2 WOMEN'S SEGMENT 4.1.3
KIDS' SEGMENT 4.2 CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR 4.2.2 CHANGING CONSUMER PREFERENCES 4.2.3
PURCHASING TREND OF MALE EXECUTIVES 4.2.4 PURCHASING TREND OF WOMEN EXECUTIVES 4.2.5
CUSTOMER PREFERENCES 4.3 BRANDING 4.3.1 BRAND APPAREL MARKET SIZE IN INDIA 4.3.2
TRENDS IN BRANDED APPAREL 4.3.3 MAJOR MNC BRANDS IN INDIA 4.4 APPAREL RETAILING
4.4.1 FORMATS OF APPAREL RETAILING 4.4.2 LATEST ON RETAIL IN INDIA

5. INTERNATIONAL TRADE 5.1 PRESENT SCENARIO 5.1.1 COTTON 5.1.2 YARN 5.1.3 APPAREL
AND CLOTHING 5.1.4 MAN-MADE TEXTILES 5.2 EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES 5.2.1 CHINA VERSUS
INDIA 5.2.2 MAJOR PLAYERS 5.3 WTO DEVELOPMENTS

6. GROWTH DRIVERS 6.1. DOMESTIC MARKET 6.1.1. RISING DOMESTIC DISPOSABLE INCOME
6.1.2. CHANGING CONSUMER PREFERENCES 6.1.3 OGANISED RETAILING PICKS UP 6.1.4
TECHNICAL TEXTILES 6.1.5. TUF SCHEME 6.2 EXPORT MARKET 6.2.1. INDIAN APPAREL EXPORTS
IN GROWTH ORBIT 6.2.2 EMERGING OPPORTUNITY: HOME TEXTILES 6.2.3 RETAIL OUTSOURCING -
A GROWTH ENGINE 6.2.4 DESIGN OUTSOURCING AND EMBROIDERIES

7. ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 7.1 INFRASTRUCTURE - A CHALLENGE IN EXPORT MARKET
7.2.DISTRIBUTION IN DOMESTIC MARKET - A CHALLENGE 7.3. LACK OF FDI IN TEXTILE &
APPAREL SECTOR 7.4. SCALE OF OPERATIONS7.5 LOWER PRODUCTIVITY LEVEL 7.6. RIGID LABOR
LAWS 8. REGULATORY ISSUES

8.1LABOUR LAWS 8.2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 8.3 FDI AND FII GUIDELINES 8.4.
TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION FUND (TUF) 8.5. SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (SEZ) AND TEXTILE PARKS
8.6 GOVERNMENT TRAINING PROGRAMME

9. MAJOR PLAYERS 9.1MADURA GARMENTS (INDIAN RAYON) 9.2 ARVIND MILLS LTD 9.3 RAYMOND
LTD 9.4 ALOK INDUSTRIES LTD 9.5 WELSPUN INDIA LTD 9.6 BOMBAY DYEING 9.7 ABHISHEK
INDUSTRIES LTD. 9.8 SANGAM INDIA LTD 9.9 PROVOGUE INDIA LTD 9.10 WILLS LIFESTYLE
(ITC) 9.11 GOKALDAS EXPORTS LTD 9.12 INDO RAMA SYNTHETICS (INDIA) LTD 9.13 VARDHMAN
TEXTILES LTD 9.14 BOMBAY RAYON FASHIONS LTD 9.15 S KUMARS NATIONWIDE LTD 9.16
SURYALAKSHMI COTTON MILLS LTD 9.17 CENTURY ENKA LTD 9.18 KRISHNA KNITWEAR TECHNOLOGY
LTD 9.19 RSWM LTD 9.20 SRF LTD 9.21 GHCL LTD

10. OUTLOOK

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