The three-day India Knit Fair, organised by Apparel Export Promotion Council, India Knit Fair Association and Tirupur Exporters Association, began here on Wednesday.
The event was showcasing spring/summer collections of apparels made by the textile entrepreneurs in Tirupur knitwear cluster to the potential buyers and buying agents.
The items on display included knitted T-shirts, children's wear, night wear, trendy dresses for women and trousers meant for the ensuing summer and spring seasons in 2016.
Though the fair was held twice a year for almost two decades now, a large section of knitwear exporters feel that the fair need to undergo changes according to the changing scenario and must become a better platform for B2B interactions between a wide base of foreign buyers and the manufacturers here.
“Monotonous way of organising the event need to be changed and B2B atmosphere should be created effectively to sustain the buyers'/manufacturers’ interest in the fair,” said Raja M. Shanmugam, a senior member of Tirupur Exporters Association and state council member of Confederation of Indian Industry.
S. T. S. Chokalingam, who had participated in the previous editions of IKF and decided to opt out of this edition, was of the view that greater dynamism need to be instilled in the conduct of the fair otherwise which real business could not be generated by the participants.
“Main problem that detracted me from participating in the event has been that only lesser number of serious buyers who could give us business are eventually turning up,” Mr. Chokalingam said.
