Lucrative export window for textile industry

The Edcon Group last week began to run a series of workshops aimed at capacitating the local textile industry to improve the quality of their products while also looking to conform to the specific demands of the retailer. BusinessWeek’s PAULINE DIKUELO attended the workshop and discovered that after years of limiting themselves to the local market, an opportunity that needs to be grabbed with both hands, has risen for local textile players to break the export boundary and supply the retailing group in their outlets spread across seven countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, Lesotho and Mozambique