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APPAREL SOURCING CLUB-DAY │ 5th EDITION The fourth edition of the Apparel Sourcing Club DAY took place on Thursday, 02 July 2026, bringing together 34 selected manufacturers with more than 50 Sourcers. After the DAY is before the DAY, so we are planning our next event diligently, presenting new manufacturers from new regions worldwide, while creating […]
DAY 2026 │THURSDAY, 02 JULY 2026 │ FRANKFURT, GERMANY APPAREL SOURCING CLUB-DAY │ 4th EDITION TIME AND PLACE The fourth edition of the Apparel Sourcing Club DAY took place on Thursday, 02 July 2026, from 9:00 – 18h00 at the Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof in Frankfurt am Main. For the fourth time, the event brought together […]
Institutional Mission to Uzbekistan From 22 – 26 June 2026, the Apparel Sourcing Club Partner, Sven Eriskat, travelled to Tashkent to work with the national textile and clothing association ‘Uztextilprom’ and to speak with relevant stakeholders about how to induce the cooperation between German and Uzbek companies. Stakeholders have indicated that they will support the […]
CAPTURING MISSIONS TO KENYA IN FEBRUARY / MAY 2026 | TEXTILE MACHINERY PROJECT IN SEPTEMBER 2026 The CLUB is checking-out East Africa as a potential sourcing destination. For this purpose, two fact-finding missions to Kenya have been implemented in February and May 2025. Kenya is a traditional manufacturing country for textiles and apparel. In the […]
THE CLUB @ APLUSA: THE MOVE FROM FASHION TO WORKWEAR! The world of workwear is moving fast, more and more areas of application are covered, branding or protecting us. It is also a new domain entered by those companies offering apparel for fashion or leisure and sports. To explore how the ‘transformation’ can be mastered, […]
ALBANIA, BOSNIA AND NORTH MACEDONIA @ APLUSA 2025 The Swiss Import Promotion Programme hosted three country pavillions at this years AplusA trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany from 04 – 07 November 2025: The Manufacturers: Albania – Hall 12 | C81 ABATEX SHPK operates with state-of-the-art machinery like seam sealing machines and specializes in producing high-quality […]
MOLDOVA FACTORY VISITS & BUSINESS FORUM │ 14 – 17 SEPTEMBER 2025 The Moldovan Textile and Clothing Association with the support of the ‘Innovate Moldova’ project funded by the Swedish development agency, invited our members to travel to Moldova between 14 – 18 September 2025, to visit manufacturing facilities and participate in a Business Forum. […]
CAMBODIA, THAILAND & VIETNAM │ 14 – 24 SEPTEMBER 2025 From 14 – 24 September 2025, the CLUB travelled to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to keep up with the developments in those apparel sourcing destinations. Several manufacturers were visited to capture products, qualities, capacities and prices. At the same time, meetings were hosted with the […]
GERMAN WORKWEAR GOES TUNISIA │ 14 – 18 OCTOBER 2025 The GERMAN FASHION association organises a sourcing mission to Tunisia, to capture capacities and qualities. In total, group of approximately ten German workwear companies will be travelling to several locations in Tunisia, to visit manufacturing units and to enter into discussions with selected potential suppliers. […]
INVITATION: MISSION TO ETHIOPIA │ 26 – OCTOBER – 01 NOVEMBER 2025 The Sustainable Industrial Clusters Project (S.I.C.) is a flagship initiative implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth. and Development Office (FCDO) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). S.I.C. aims […]