Egyptian garment maker El Nasr Clothing & Textile Co. (Kabo) reported a net loss of 1.3 million Egyptian pounds ($237,000), the stock exchange said.
Energy giant Reliance Industries has launched an initial survey for diamonds in central India, the Mint newspaper reported, citing unnamed government and company officials.
Motivated at age 15 by the tears in his father's eyes when the former farmer was forced to accept a factory job, Brunello Cucinelli is anything but an orthodox capitalist.
The trappings of Bernard Madoff's once luxurious lifestyle -- jewels, furs and expensive trinkets -- will be auctioned in New York to benefit victims of the Wall Street swindler.
With cheap labour, investment incentives and unrestricted exports, one Chinese textile group has turned to Egypt as an ideal location to produce its ready-made garments, beating stiff competition at home.
Several hundred workers at the clothing group Escada hailed new chief executive Megha Mittal as she paid a visit to its headquarters in Munich, southern Germany.
Sri Lanka delivered its formal response to a European Union probe that found it in breach of international human rights laws and said it was hopeful of retaining a lucrative trade concession with the bloc.
Phillips-Van Heusen Corp, a clothing manufacturer that owns the Calvin Klein brand, said its Izod brand will sponsor the IndyCar Series, marking the open-wheel racing sport's first title sponsor since 2001.
Under Armour Inc signed a multiyear deal with a top mixed martial arts fighter to endorse its underwear and other products, moving the athletic clothing and shoe maker into one of the world's fastest growing sports.
Malaysia's exports, the mainstay of the economy, slumped 24.2 percent in September from a year ago, according to official data.
U.S. shoe and clothing maker Kenneth Cole Productions Inc posted a surprise quarterly profit, helped by effective inventory controls and lower costs, but forecast fourth-quarter results below market expectations.
The price of gold, which recently shot to a record high above 1,070 dollars, has a bright future thanks to improving demand caused by the financial crisis, industry experts said.
China wants to address the imbalance in its trade with Kenya by encouraging Chinese firms to import more from east Africa's largest economy, its envoy to Nairobi said.
AngloGold Ashanti, the world's No.3 gold producer, lowered its annual production target for the second straight quarter after suspending output at a South African mine for safety checks.
The front-runner in Honduras' presidential race has become a key to resolving a four-month conflict between a president ousted in a coup and the de facto leader who replaced him.
