Skip to main content
Fashion and Textile Business Excellence Cooperative

Training Programs

Training for Trends and Key Industries

The FTBEC offers training programs for trends and key industry issues. This training will be apparel and textile industry-focused, offering in-depth industry knowledge and insights. This training can be offered either online or offline. Offline training can include visits to labs in the Wilson College of Textiles, innovative retail stores, and companies and production facilities in North Carolina.

Customized Training for Workforce Development

The FTBEC offers customized trainings for any levels. Introductory courses can be offered to new employees who may not have apparel and textiles backgrounds. Intermediate courses can be developed for managers and directors. For busy executives, short programs with real essence and practical insights can be created.

Potential topics include:

  • Textiles 101
  • Fashion Retailing
  • Key Industry Trends in the US and Global Marketplaces
  • Innovative Business Models and New Technology Utilization in the Fashion Industry
  • 4th Industrial Revolution in the Fashion Industry: What, Why, and How Has the Industry Changed?
  • Sustainability
  • Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability
  • Global Brand Management and Marketing
  • Cross-Cultural Consumer Behaviors and Management

Training for Doing Business Abroad

The global marketplace provides apparel companies with huge opportunities. Thanks to the diverse forms of e-commerce, m-commerce, and social commerce, consumers can order through a foreign website and have goods delivered to their home in the U.S. This broadens companies’ selling opportunities and potential growth. Yet, when every country has its unique retail systems, differing market environments, and development stages, companies encounter challenges at various levels. The FTBEC offers customized trainings on major topics in global business including market entry mode (how to enter), timing (when to enter), and countries (where to enter), in addition to detailed product adaptation and marketing strategies at country or regional levels. A very practical country-specific training (e.g., China, India and Vietnam) can be also offered for expats before a departure to a foreign country.