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 Compliance from Factory Partners  
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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 more virtual vertical factory (VVF) partnerships with supply chain partners....
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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 mill Jong Pattana Co., Ltd. to an Indonesian garment factory....
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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 four hours’ worth of presentations, comments, and questions. Five presenters...
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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, Director of USAID’s VALUE Project, said: “This transaction is now...
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New VALUE Project Director Mike Blakeley (pictured left) spoke about ASEAN’s strengths as a source market, the Source ASEAN Full Service Alliance (SAFSA), and the upcoming SAFSA Seminar Hong Kong at a morning function of the American Chamber of Commerce’s (AmCham) Apparel and Footwear Committee, June 30. Sourcing executives from some of the industry’s...
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