The Chief Delegates (CDs) of each AFTEX-member country travelled to Hong Kong for a briefing on the Source ASEAN Full Service Alliance (SAFSA) program, August 25. The event coincided with the “Southeast Asia Sourcing Conference and the SAFSA Model” seminar hosted by VALUE the...
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On Friday Aug 26th SAFSA hosted an informational seminar at Intercontinental Grand Stanford. Each presentation can be found below; Michael Blakeley – Sourcing in SE ASIA: The SAFSA Model, Andrew B. Schroth – TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP TEXTILE & APPAREL SOURCING, Tony Yiu – Ensuring...
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The VALUE team visited several current and prospective SAFSA suppliers in Indonesia in July, including SAFSA garment factories PT. Argo Manunggal and Gold Mark Development Limited and SAFSA textile mill C.V. Badjatex. Goldmark and Badjatex wish to expand their SAFSA involvement by forging even...
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Thunulux PCL and Erawan Textile, both of the Sahapat Group, have agreed to join SAFSA as a virtual vertical factory (VVF) member. Thanulux is a woven shirt factory while Erawan is a woven fabric mill. Both are Bangkok-based. VALUE also introduced Thai VVF textile...
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Global sourcing executives listening to SAFSA sourcing approach at the SAFSA seminar New York Sixteen major U.S. brands/retailers, including seven SAFSA priority targets, sent senior sourcing executives or higher to attend the SAFSA New York Seminar, July 26. All delegates remained engaged throughout the...
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SAFSA members signed another contract worth more than US$ 1 million in June. This is the second million-dollar-plus deal that SAFSA is aware of that is a direct result of the partnership-building since the inaugural SAFSA Global Forum in Singapore last year. Mike Blakeley,...
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