Manufacturing
Garments and textiles
Garment factory owners warn of falling productivity
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) claims falling productivity levels and rising infrastructure costs in the Kingdom’s garment sector could put the country at a disadvantage with its neighbouring competitors. ...
Bun Sengkong and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-factory-owners-warn-falling-productivity
Pressure mounts on garment industry
Falling productivity and rising infrastructure costs are putting Cambodia’s garment industry at a disadvantage as it tries to compete with rivals Vietnam, Bangladesh and Myanmar, a leading union said yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25317/pressure-mounts-on-garment-industry/
Factories create 12,000 new first-quarter jobs
Forty factories were registered during the first three months of the year, creating over 12,000 jobs, according to new data by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-create-12000-new-first-quarter-jobs
Exports to the US slip slightly
Cambodia’s exports to the United States, the second largest importer of local goods after the European Union, declined slightly during the first quarter of the year compared with the same quarter last year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24662/exports-to-the-us-slip-slightly/
Garment sector grows another 13 pct: report
Cambodia’s garment and footwear exports grew by 13 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2016, Chinese news agency Xinhua said on Monday, citing a report by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-sector-grows-another-13-pct-report
Higher wages hit GTI bottom line
The increase in the government-set minimum wage in the garment sector and lower prices have hit the bottom line of Grand Twins International (GTI), the only company in the sector listed on the stock exchange. The company yesterday reported revenue for the year ended December 31 ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23572/higher-wages-hit-gti-bottom-line/
Swifter footwear sales help push garment growth
Cambodia’s garment sector – a key driver of the economy – exhibited modest growth last year, with total exports topping $6.3 billion in 2015, up from $5.8 billion one year earlier, according to an industry report released yesterday. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/swifter-footwear-sales-help-push-garment-growth
Garment worker pageant troubles critics
The Ministry of Labour is bringing back a beauty pageant for garment workers, which unions and commentators have deemed a “regressive” distraction from deep-seeded inequalities in the sector. ...
Erin Handley and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-worker-pageant-troubles-critics
Traditional silk industry struggles to keep its shine
To get high quality silk scarves or silk products ready to sell in shops or markets takes at least two or three days of hard work by weavers, most of whom work in small villag ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22615/traditional-silk-industry-struggles-to-keep-its-shine/
Claims of Cambodia outpacing VN's garment exports denied
Recently, several local newspapers reported that Cambodia surpassed Viet Nam to become the fifth largest exporter of garment and textile products to the EU. ...
Vietnam Net Team
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/152094/claims-of-cambodia-outpacing-vn-s-garment-exports-denied.html
Cambodia’s textile market share outdoes Vietnam’s in European Union
Although Vietnam was ranked among the top ten in apparel exports to the European Union in 2015, it was outperformed by one of its neighboring countries. ...
Tuoi Tre News's team
http://tuoitrenews.vn/business/33470/cambodias-textile-market-share-outdoes-vietnams-in-european-union
With job cuts on horizon, factory’s staff walks
Roughly 2,000 workers from the Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited garment factory in Phnom Penh went on strike yesterday after the factory announced it would be reducing staff numbers by 500 over the coming months, union representatives said yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/job-cuts-horizon-factorys-staff-walks
Time to outgrow garment manufacturing, gov’t advisor says
As the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) raises Cambodia’s profile as a member of one of the world’s largest trade zones, investors around the world are considering Cambodia as a gateway to the region and it should take advantage of this opportunity by diversifying its economic ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21466/time-to-outgrow-garment-manufacturing--gov---t-advisor-says/
Cambodia aims higher in manufacturing sector
After decades of solid growth driven by its garment industry, Cambodia is seeking to shift its economy into more sophisticated light manufacturing, such as electronics and auto-parts. Most of these manufacturers are Japanese and they are slowly coming online in Cambodia’s special economic zones, aiming ...
Daniel De Carteret, Chan Muyhong
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-aims-higher-in-manufacturing-sector/3184557.html
Footwear kicks in as factory exports surge 17 percent
The total value of exports from the garment, footwear and other factories rose 17 percent year on year to $7.1 billion last year, according to a report from Ministry of Industry and Handicraft released yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20849/footwear-kicks-in-as-factory-exports-surge-17-percent/
Nearly 150 garment, footwear factories in Cambodia close down in 2015
Nearly 150 garment and footwear factories in Cambodia have shut down this year, while more than 50 new ones opened, local media reported on Monday, citing a report of the Commerce Ministry. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6711677/2015/12/27/nearly-150-garment-footwear-factories-cambodia-close-down-2015
Takeo’s Bati district could become a hotspot for garment factories
Land prices in Krang Thnong commune, in Takeo’s Bati district near National Road 2, have recently multiplied by up to ten times compared to five years ago after two garment factories started being constructed in the rural community this year, locals claim.Meanwhile, the area might ...
Dit Sokthy and Hanamariya Halim
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/takeos-bati-district-could-become-hotspot-garment-factories
Cambodia to gain as Adidas pivots from China
Adidas, one of the country’s biggest garment buyers, says it will expand production in Cambodia over the next five years as part of its pivot away from China to lower-cost producers in Southeast Asia. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-gain-as-adidas-pivots-from-china-103163/
Cambodia to gain as Adidas pivots from china
Adidas, one of the country’s biggest garment buyers, says it will expand production in Cambodia over the next five years as part of its pivot away from China to lower-cost producers in Southeast Asia. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-gain-as-adidas-pivots-from-china-103163/
Garment sector weighs new reforms
Garment and footwear industry stakeholders yesterday converged in Phnom Penh to discuss how to develop the sector to be sustainable and competitive.Run by the French Development Agency (AFD), the textiles conference at the capital’s Sunway Hotel heard that improving employees’ living and working standards, and ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-sector-weighs-new-reforms
Kampong Speu garment workers continue strike
Protesting working conditions, nearly 300 garment workers in Kampong Speu’s Chbar Mon town entered their tenth day of strikes yesterday as the Arbitration Council prepared paperwork to resolve the dispute. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-garment-workers-continue-strike
Gov't denies factory closure rumours
The Ministry of Labour has urged the arrest of the “mastermind” behind an apparently spurious rumour spreading across shop floors that garment factories would close their doors for the entire month of December. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-denies-factory-closure-rumours
Cambodia approves draft union law amid criticism
Cambodia’s government is moving forward in adopting a controversial law on trade unions, despite opposition from labour rights groups and garment manufacturers. Latest figures show Cambodia’s garment and footwear exports in the first six months of 2015 reached US$3 bn, a rise of 12.7% on ...
Leonie Barrie
http://www.just-style.com/news/cambodia-approves-draft-union-law-amid-criticism_id126630.aspx
Wages not cutting into exports
Despite industry concerns that a minimum wage increase to $128 earlier this year would hurt Cambodia’s garment exports, the garment and footwear sector – a mainstay of the economy – showed robust growth for the first half of 2015, netting around $3 billion, according to ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wages-not-cutting-exports