ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2
Garments Industry: A Global Perspective 3
Global Trends in Garments 3
Garments Industry: A Pakistani Perspective 4
FLIGHT TO BANGLADESH 8
Competition 9
Application of Porter’s Diamond Model: 10 LABOR 10 RAW MATERIAL 10 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS 11 MACHINERY 11 R&D 12
Perspective of a local Garments Importer, Exporter and Distributor 16
BENCHMARKING ANALYSIS OF THE GARMENTS SECTOR 18
Poor Practices 19
Good Practices 21
GOOD PRACTICES/RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT 22
CONCLUSION 28
REFERENCES: 30
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all we would like to thank Almighty Allah. We would also like to thank Ms. Khadija Bari, Zahid Aslam - Managing Director BABRI, Mr. Amir Iqbal- Production manager of UNIBRO Textiles, Mr. Ikhtiar Baig- Federal Advisor to PM of Textile, Mr. Mushtaq Vora – ex-Chairman APTMA, Mr. Jawed Bilwani – Chairman PHMA, Mr. Zaheeer A. Hussain – CEO Textile City and Mr. Dawood Zakhura – member of central committee PRGMEA for their valuable help in making this report possible. We greatly appreciate the help.
Garments Industry: A Global Perspective
Textile and Garment can be taken as relatives performing in the same fraternity. Both industries depend on each other however one main difference between these two sibling industries arises at the very grass root level. Textile is more capital-intensive that is it require huge injections of finance and technology while the garments side is more labor-intensive and depends on human resource making it cheaper of the two options (strictly in the case of developing countries where labor is cheaper than machinery). The market for these two industries is colossal, thanks to the basic human necessity of hiding bare bodies. Global garment exports are valued at $ 310 billion and top 15 clothing exporters account for 80% of the exports. EU is the biggest exporter while China is second biggest exporter.
Global Trends in Garments
Geographical shift: Till
References: The Global Textile and Garments Industry by Infodev Publications Garments and made ups report by SMEDA Pride.org.pk Prgmea.org.pk