The Italy Textile And Garment Federation Held Its Annual Meeting.

Recently, the Italy textile and garment Federation held its annual meeting. At the meeting, Claudio Marenzi, head of Herno SpA group of Italy family business, was announced as the new president of the Federation. He will be in charge of Italy textile fashion industry in the next two years.

　　 Italy textile and garment Federation It is the representative of the largest textile fashion Federation in the world. It is closely linked with the Italy government, public administration, economic associations, trade associations and social organizations. It is part of Italy's economic and manufacturing base. The association has 5 companies, about 420 thousand employees, and its member organizations represent the internationalization level of the entire textile industry in Italy, so as to maintain and promote the development of Italy's textile industry.

At the meeting, Carlo Calenda, Vice Minister of economic development of Italy, released the general situation of import and export of Italy textiles and clothing in 2012. In 2012, the total sales volume of Italy textile industry decreased by 8.4%, the total sales volume of upstream industry chain was 19 billion 600 million euro, and the downstream industry chain (including textile and clothing, Sweater The total sales volume of underwear, knitwear, socks and buttons was 31 billion 500 million euros, a slight increase of 0.3% compared with 2011.

In the export market, Italy's exports to the EU decreased by 5.3%, with the growth of 4.9% in addition to the main markets outside the EU countries, the increase in exports to the US market was 15.1%, Japan's growth rate was 14.9%, and China's growth rate was 18.3%. This trend has also been shown from the trade situation in the first quarter of this year.

Regarding the future development plan of Italy Textile Fashion Federation, Claudio Marenzi pointed out that in the future, Italy textile fashion industry will expand to the field, improve its quality, enhance its competitiveness and develop towards internationalization, and win the favor of domestic and international consumers to Italy products.

In addition, the association will carry out a new round of dialogue, discuss strategies for developing new market positioning, urge trade organizations to discard ideological differences and focus on the real needs of the labour market, and will pay more attention to the systematic study of enterprises' daily application in production, distribution and marketing. Despite the lack of adequate financial and financial support, the association will continue to promote Italy textile and garment enterprises to enhance their competitiveness in the global market.

At present, the biggest challenge facing the Italy textile and garment Federation is to help enterprises to turn from products to products. Branding Excessive development, despite the lack of strong financial support at present, enterprises must persist in accumulating industry skills, improving product services and enhancing product innovation capability. It is learned that the association will provide support to enterprises in terms of sales, communications and network resources in the future.