Brandix goes organic for top international brands

Internationally-certified organic cotton ladies’ pants manufactured by Sri Lanka’s Brandix Group have broken into the 2008 spring and summer collection of top international retailer NEXT, opening up a lucrative new category for the country’s largest apparel exporter.

The Group’s lead casualwear production facility for NEXT in Giritalé has already supplied more than 10,000 ‘semi-cargo’ pants to the retailer and anticipates continuing orders as the season progresses, Brandix Casualwear CEO Pravin Kalpage said in a press statement.

NEXT is the third major international chain to place orders for organic garments from Brandix, he said. The group has also received orders for 37,000 pieces of organic apparel from Marks & Spencer (M&S) the top notch UK retailer, and from Woolworth in Soth Africa. The organic fabric for these orders is imported from India.