Textile Outlook International

What Each Issue Contains

Every issue of Textile Outlook International runs to over 120 pages built from recurring elements: regular updates on world textile and apparel trade and production trends; profiles of textile and apparel companies and countries around the world; business opportunities in the global marketplace; political implications and information on trade blocs, tariffs and quotas; and innovations and technological developments in the industry. The mix is deliberate — trade data without company intelligence misses who is winning, and company profiles without trade data miss the conditions they are winning in.

The questions the journal exists to answer are the standing questions of industry decision makers. Where will the major markets be in the future? What products will they be demanding? Who will be your future competitors? Which key developments will affect your business? Drawing on its worldwide network of expert contributors, the journal supports that decision making with research, analysis and forecasts rather than news alone.

Two Issues as Examples

Issue 136 shows the journal in a crisis year: an editorial on the crisis hitting China's clothing industry, a profile of Gildan as a vertically integrated producer of low cost activewear, underwear and socks, a survey of the European yarn fairs for autumn/winter 2009/10, trends in EU textile and clothing imports, world markets for textile machinery covering yarn manufacture, and prospects for the textile and clothing industry in the Czech Republic. Issue 127, from January-February 2007, shows the standard mix at full length: Developments in Textile Colorants (24 pages), an editorial on world fibre production, a profile of KappAhl, the Nordic fashion retailer (10 pages), a profile of Oxford Industries (9 pages), Sourcing Apparel from India (55 pages) and World Markets for Textile Machinery: Part 3 Finishing (17 pages).

The individual report summaries linked from this page — the two company profiles, the India sourcing study and the finishing machinery survey from Issue 127, and the colourants report and fibre production editorial from the same issue's companion set — give a reader the measure of the journal before subscribing: the page counts, the subjects, and the analytical approach, from colourant chemistry to Nordic retail strategy. Contact details on the linked pages reach Belinda Carp at Textiles Intelligence for what is in the current issue.

The Publisher Behind the Journal

Textile Outlook International is published by Textiles Intelligence, a provider of global business information to the international fibre, textile and apparel industry. The company was formed in 1992 as a spin-off from the Economist Intelligence Unit and has customers in more than 60 countries spread across five continents. Alongside Textile Outlook International six times a year, it publishes Technical Textile Markets every quarter and offers over 30 in-depth research reports covering global sectors such as man-made fibres and nonwovens, geographical regions such as South East Asia and Eastern Europe, and topics such as internationalisation and sourcing.