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Launching our third Sustainability Report for FY 2023-24
Shahi Exports Unveils New Brand Identity to Mark 50th Anniversary
The Manufacturing Perspective | 2024
Shahi KPD is one of the first mills to achieve YESS Foundational Level Conformance.
50 Years of Excellence: Shahi’s Story of Innovation, Responsibility, and Enduring Legacy
Mrs. Sarla Ahuja, Founder, Shahi Exports As we mark 50 years, we reflect on a journey defined by…
From Doodling Rockets to Discovering the Magic of Science: Reimagining STEM Learning in Schools
Shahi Announces Joint Venture with Taiwan’s Little King Global for Synthetic Performance Fabrics Production
Inside PULSE: Developing Next-In-Line Leadership at Shahi
Shahi elevates sustainability at Bharat Tex 2024
Farm Residue to Fashion: Our Journey with AltMat
How often do we think about the raw materials used in our garments? Raw material production and their…
From Stitching Threads to Weaving Success
The Manufacturing Perspective | 2023
Shahi Exports Launches Sustainability Report FY 2022-23
Mitigating Forced Labor: Reflecting on our Pilot with YESS Standards
Sharing the Legacy of Empowering Women: The G20 EMPOWER Best Practices Playbook
Shahi Exports Becomes the First Indian Mill to Undergo a YESS Assessment
Shahi Exports and KMIT partner to support at-risk women against poverty, human trafficking
Shahi’s First Sustainability Report
IOM-UN Migration and Shahi Exports Join Hands to Facilitate Safe Migration through Migrant Support Centre
New Delhi, 15 December 2022: Economic Survey reported that between 2001-2011, the Inter-state labor migration in India averaged…
The Manufacturing Perspective | 2022
Shahi Exports Wins Two International Green Apple Awards
Shahi pilots DXM’s on-demand manufacturing platform with leading outerwear brand
Anant Ahuja joins the Board of the Better Buying Institute
New Delhi, 30 September, 2022: Shahi Exports, India's largest apparel manufacturer, announced that Anant Ahuja has joined the…
Creating Lasting Impact for Community Wellbeing
Sustainability Spotlight | The classic blue denim
To name a piece of versatile, durable, and timeless clothing, very few would hesitate to pick the go-to…
Puneesh Lamba honoured as the IoT ICON at the CIO Power List 2022
Puneesh Lamba, Chief Technology Officer of Shahi, received the recognition for IoT Icon in the CIO Power List…
Reducing audit fatigue by increasing adoption of SLCP across Shahi factories
How Shahi created a first-of-its-kind circular dress
Insights from speaking engagements: 2021
At Shahi, we believe in sharing our experiences and learning with all the stakeholders in the fashion industry…
Supervisory soft skills can transform factory culture and performance: GBL Study
Apparel factories typically operate through assembly-line production. Large teams of up to 70 workers stitch and assemble all…
Shahi is accelerating digital operations in the apparel industry
Efforts at Shahi have taken a shift in the last year, and going digital has become the mantra.…
Applications open for Shahi Industry Chair 4.0 at NIFT Delhi
Applications are open for the Shahi Industry Chair 4.0 at the National Institute of Fashion Technology Delhi. This…
The Recovery Series | Pandemic and the Employment Jeopardy: The story a year later
This blog post has been updated on February 11, 2022 to include information on VDA 2020-21 payments. This…
The Recovery Series | What does a migrant worker need?
This is the second part of a 3 part series on Shahi’s road to recovery from the gruesome…
The Recovery Series | Vaccinating a Workforce of 100,000 against Covid-19
This is the first part of a 3 part series on Shahi’s road to recovery from the gruesome…
Shahi Exports becomes India’s first woven apparel and textiles manufacturer to create Cradle to Cradle Certified® Gold products
In a massive step towards the transition to the circular fashion industry, Shahi Exports is proud to be…
Shahi featured in Documentary on GANT by BBC
The global average water footprint for 1kg of cotton is 10,000 liters. We believe that it is our…
Corporate Social Responsibility at Shahi Exports
A background on CSR in India In 2013, India became the first country in the world to legally…
Shahi’s journey to achieving 100% renewable electricity
The fashion industry, like many others, is energy-intensive. To find solutions to the climate change challenges it becomes…
Shahi featured on Season 3 of the Manufactured Podcast
Manufactured is a podcast started in 2020 with the intention of providing an insider perspective on sustainability in…
Shahi Exports in the Business of Fashion and Mckinsey’s The State of Fashion 2021 report
We are honored to have Shahi’s Head of Organizational Development, Anant Ahuja, featured in an interview in The…
Using textile waste to enhance cotton production: Results from a field trial with HKRITA
Shahi and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HRKITA) are collaborating to advance their shared…
Shahi endorses ILO’s COVID-19 global Call to Action in the garment industry
We recognize that to fulfill our commitment to protect workers’ wellbeing, all stakeholders in the industry need to…
Insights from speaking engagements: 2020
We love to connect with our industry peers and all other important stakeholders to share our experiences and…
COVID-19 outbreak: Repurposing our factories to produce PPE for frontline healthcare professionals
To cater to the rising demand of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, we have produced…
Collaboration insights-I: Business and Academia
Collaborations and partnerships between stakeholders are critical to solve the world's most pressing challenges across people, planet and…
Awarded “Best Performer Employer” by Ministry of Rural Development, GoI for three consecutive years
It was an honor to receive the "Best Performer Employer - Rank -1" National Award 2019 under Deen…
Speaking at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
It was an honor to share our experiences on incorporating gender equality principles in business operations at the…
Insights from speaking engagements: 2019
We love sharing our work and learnings with industry and other important stakeholders. This post is an ongoing…
By women, for women: How we co-created a menstrual hygiene management program with our female workforce
Closing the skill gap: How Shahi’s skilling efforts enable more women to enter the workforce
India’s Female Labor Force Participation has fallen from 36.7% in 2005 to 26% in 2018. The apparel industry,…
Committing to women’s reproductive health at Women Deliver 2019
Women Deliver is the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and well-being of girls…
Launching Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) in India
As India’s largest apparel manufacturer with over 60 factories, we are proud to be a signatory to and…
A year on from Unit 8: What we’ve learned
Just over a year ago, a serious incident took place at one of our 65 factories, Unit 8,…
Empowering women who power the global fashion industry
Our industry is reliant on female labor. At Shahi we employ more than 70,000 talented and capable women…
Will 2019 be the year suppliers are represented on the global stage?
Creating sustainable solutions for the apparel industry needs the entire supply chain to work together. So why are…
Iron Woman: Fighting anemia among our female employees
India has the largest number of anemic women in the world, with more than half (51%) of all…
Partnership with Columbia Sportswear to provide clean water to communities
Columbia Sportswear, one of our key customers, is committed to reducing its water footprint across the supply chain.…
Scaling P.A.C.E. to women in our supplier factories
In 2007, Shahi was the first company to pilot Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement (P.A.C.E.), a proprietary life-skills…
Can the apparel industry help to reverse India’s declining female work participation rate?
A commentary piece in the Economics Times by Arvind Panagariya, former Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank…
Gap Foundation’s 40th anniversary celebrations
In September 2017, Shahi was invited to be a part of Gap Foundation’s 40th anniversary celebrations. Three of…