Western shoppers are fueling a revival for made-in-Asia goods

HONG KONG / NEW DELHI (May 9): Sanjay Janghala walks across a humming factory floor as 400 employees of Orient Craft Ltd. stitch together women’s blouses and embroidered dresses.

"That’s for Ann Taylor, that’s for Gap," said Janghala, the factory head, before stopping to pick up a white dress. "This is for J. Crew. This is all value added. This is all cut by hand."

This factory outside of New Delhi is just one of Orient Craft’s 26 facilities in India, which together export nearly 250,000 pieces of clothing a day -- more than 60% of which flow to the US Annual revenues at the closely held company have grown steadily to more than US$300 million ($421.7 milion).

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