In May 2019 The Hindu reported that Indian garment maker KPR Mill planned a production facility in Ethiopia and an initial investment of about $5 million.
Indian textile capital joining Chinese and Western buyers fit the same industrial-park strategy that sold Ethiopia as a low-wage sewing hub for export markets. Early checks are not the same as lasting local jobs or technology transfer, but they mark who was betting on the parks in 2019.
Readers tracking Horn manufacturing should keep Indian FDI notes beside Hawassa wage debates and later political shocks that froze many foreign plans.
Kept as business archive, the KPR announcement is a small FDI checkpoint on Ethiopia’s garment map.
Sources: The Hindu