It is my great pleasure to let you know that the 11th Prime Source Forum (PSF) Hong Kong, which will be held from 14-15 March 2016 in the Mira Hong Kong, continues to sustain its position as the annual meeting place for senior executives to discuss the challenges and opportunities that stakeholders across the global fashion supply chain are facing in the industry.

This April 12-13, Première Vision New York Designs comes to town with 83 design studios. This is a unique opportunity to come meet leading international studios from 16 countries together with top US players this spring in New York.

Despite misgivings about the slowdown in demand for leather from China in the first two months of 2016, MM&T got off to a brisk start and this continued into Day 2 of this major event.

A delegation of 36 European footwear companies just returned from a trade mission in Almaty, Kazakhstan as part of a European Commission funded campaign called “European Footwear: More than Fashion”. This unique event was the first ever European footwear mission outside Europe for Small and Medium Enterprises and aimed to support the internationalisation of footwear companies manufacturing in Europe. The mission included a European footwear exhibition at the Ritz Carlton hotel and a visit to three of the main shopping centres in Almaty, which gave the brands an opportunity to make direct business contacts with local retailers and distributors.