IAF speaks at CITI’s Global Textiles Conclave 2018 in Delhi

IAF President Han Bekke and Secretary General Matthijs Crietee on Tuesday November 27th attended the the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry’s (CITI) Global Textiles Conclave 2018. Han Bekke led a panel at this conference which included representatives of PVH and JC Penney, Birla Century and the Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters Association.

The event was opened by India’s vice-president Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu and India’s textile minister Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani and very well attended. Our immediate past president Rahul Mehta (CMAI) was also a speaker and moderator and he arranged for a private meeting with the textile Minister at her office at the Ministry. The Minister announced plans for a restart of Size India and also a project on mapping the size and composition of the Indian apparel industry, both as advised by IAF’s Indian member CMAI.