{"id":276270,"date":"2019-05-17T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEF4KeZINOWivadQBXqn0D3oqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowiYr-CjD1iIoDMOm16QU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:33","slug":"indias-kpr-mill-said-it-would-open-a-garment-plant-in-ethiopia-with-about-5-million-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276270","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s KPR Mill said it would open a garment plant in Ethiopia with about $5 million to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"India\u2019s KPR Mill said it would open a garment plant in Ethiopia with about $5 million to start\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Readers tracking Horn manufacturing should keep Indian FDI notes beside Hawassa wage debates and later political shocks that froze many foreign plans.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as business archive, the KPR announcement is a small FDI checkpoint on Ethiopia\u2019s garment map.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/kpr-mill-expands-to-ethiopia\/article27166159.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KPR Mill expands to Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;The HinduGarment maker establishes production facility, to invest $5 million initially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19RY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754800,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276270\/revisions\/754800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}