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R|Elan™ and Neva partners to create the next-gen range of performance wear

Published: August 22, 2019
Author: TEXTILE VALUE CHAIN

Neva’s Spring Summer’20 collection to use R|Elan™’s innovative Kooltex and FeelFresh fabrics

 R|Elan™, the next-gen fabrics from Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), has joined hands with Ludhiana based Neva Garments Ltd., a leading value fashion retailer, to create and market apparels made from an innovative range of R|Elan™ Kooltex and R|Elan™ FeelFresh performance fabrics.

The arrangement will enable Neva to offer the best quality R|Elan™ fabric based solutions to it’s consumers, who are seeking more and more comfortable apparels in activewear, athleisure, sportswear, sleepwear and innerwear.

Neva Garments Ltd and R|Elan™ jointly held a trade partner’s meet and a fashion show to showcase the new SS’20 range of apparels at Grand Imperia Banquet, New Delhi. Around 350 retail partners who attended the meet, admired the upcoming range of high-performance apparels, including new-age functionality offerings from Neva.

Neva Garments Ltd.’s success thrives on its strategy to provide the best value to its consumers. Neva believes in offering high quality apparels at the economical prices to its consumers. Neva’s thrust on enhancing quality standards, adopting innovations and imparting functionality, makes it unique in the very competitive apparel industry.

Whilst, speaking about the partnership, Mr Nirmal Kumar Jain, Managing Director, Neva Garments Limited said “We are proud to be associated with R|Elan™ as it has opened up the whole new gamut of offerings in the functional and performance enhancement apparel segment. Neva, traditionally, has been a cotton dominated brand in all its segments. However, now our association with R|Elan™ provides us avenues to explore the new growth opportunities. We are well-known for Quilted Thermals and we have strong loyal customer base across India. Despite, only four years of our existence in active wear, we are witnessing a rapid growth in the segment.

We are confident that our consumers will seize the opportunity to possess functional and performance enhancement apparels as we use R|Elan™’s new generation fabrics with various functional properties like moisture management, wicking, odour-free antimicrobial etc. The products like R|Elan™ Kooltex, R|Elan™ Feelfresh, R|Elan™ Airtherm have a great potential to combine with cotton and also on a stand-alone basis it forms the great garments with aesthetics and functionality without major increase in costs.  We call them ‘Smart Garments’ and we see a tremendous potential for these products among our consumers.

We have already started leveraging the strong synergies between Neva and R|Elan™ and we are contemplating to extend this partnership in both domestic and international markets in varied applications like activewear, athleisure, sportswear, innerwear, sleepwear, socks etc. We expect our bond will grow stronger as we explore newer opportunities together.”

Commenting on the partnership with Neva, Mr Gunjan Sharma, CMO – Polyester Division, RIL, said: “It gives us immense pleasure to partner with a dynamic and innovative brand like Neva that believes in providing the best quality apparel to consumers at very affordable prices. With RIL’s technological edge to infuse new-age functionality and merging it with Neva’s manufacturing and marketing prowess, we are certain to come up with stunning innovative fabrics to meet the growing demand for high-performance apparels”.

R|Elan™ provides consumers next-generation fabrics that are in sync with the latest fashion trends, and fulfil their lifestyle needs as well.

 

About Neva, Ludhiana:

Neva Garments Ltd was established in 1998 with an aspiration of providing unique and international quality clothing lifestyle to every Indian and this thought alone gives it the impetus in going ahead and consistently raising the standards of industrial practices and innovations.

Starting from Ludhiana, Neva has consistently surpassed customer expectations through its dedicated and disciplined employee base of more than 1200, wide distribution network across Indian sub – continent and more than 300 channel partners who have associated to help gain a retail base of over 7000. These products also have presence in overseas markets.

Sensing the changes, the market is undergoing and anticipating future selling trends; Neva has strategically decided to foray into Large Format Stores and Multi Brand Outlets. This will enable the customer to see and choose from the large range of the brand’s products.

About R|Elan™

R|Elan™, the next-gen fabrics have been created from specially engineered fibres and yarns using the cutting-edge technological expertise, state-of-the-art R&D and the robust testing systems.  These smart fabrics have been designed to enhance comfort and aesthetics and it is the most sought after fabric by renowned domestic and global brands, retailers and apparel manufacturers. In short, R|Elan™ is Fabric 2.0 – fabric of the future.

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