SGMASolapur Garment Manufacturers Association

Past exhibitions

SGMA has run the Uniform Garment Manufacturers Fair since 2017 — first in Solapur, then in Bengaluru, Mumbai and now Chennai.

  1. 92025

    9th Uniform Garment Manufacturers Fair — Mumbai

    NESCO Exhibition Centre, Hall 4, Goregaon (E) · 26–28 November 2025

    The exhibitors from this fair are in our directory.

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  2. 6–8

    6th to 8th editions

    Details to be added

    SGMA will add the venues, dates and photos of these editions.

  3. 52022

    5th Uniform Garment & Fabric Manufacturers Fair — Hyderabad

    Hyderabad · November 2022

    The fair was launched at a teaser ceremony in April 2022 in the presence of Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, who also visited the uniform displays of SGMA members.

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  4. 42019

    4th Uniform Garment Manufacturers Fair

    December 2019

    Presented by SGMA together with the Associated Garment Cluster Foundation. Exhibitors showed school, corporate and hospital uniforms, fabrics and accessories.

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  5. 32019

    3rd Uniform and Garment Manufacturers Fair — Bengaluru

    Dr Prabhakar Kore Convention Centre, Bengaluru · 8–10 January 2019

    The fair promoted Solapur's garment industry and made uniform sourcing quicker and easier for retailers. 200+ brands took part, including Mafatlal, Only Vimal, Bombay Dyeing and Siyaram's Unicode, and over 10,000 retailers and sourcing professionals visited from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra and beyond.

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  6. 22018

    2nd Uniform Garment Fair — Solapur

    Solapur · 2018

    A B2B fair bringing uniform, garment and home-textile (towel and chaddar) manufacturers under one roof, across about 100,000 sq ft under a central dome. A special handloom pavilion of the Government of Maharashtra promoted the handloom industry, door-to-door marketing ran across 14 states, and Indian embassies abroad helped promote the fair. Visitors could meet more than 200 manufacturers.

  7. 12017

    1st Uniform Garment Fair — Solapur

    Solapur · 2017

    India's first trading and sourcing platform exclusively for uniforms, shirts and kids' wear. More than 100 brands took part and over 5,000 buyers came from across India over three days, meeting brands, seeing new products in an innovation gallery and forming business alliances. Delegates from Sudan, Israel, Qatar, Dubai, Nigeria, Malaysia and other countries attended, exploring the idea of “Make in Solapur”.

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Also: Textile India 2017, Ahmedabad

Textile India 2017, inaugurated by the Prime Minister, presented India as a global sourcing and investment destination — about 125,000 sq m of exhibition space, 1,000+ exhibitors, 2,500+ international and 15,000+ domestic buyers. Solapur's garment industry represented the Maharashtra pavilion.

A tzitzit vest made and exported from Solapur was selected to be presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the Solapur pavilion. Ministers who visited included Shri Nitin Gadkari, Smt. Smriti Irani, Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Shri Ananth Kumar, Shri Subhash Deshmukh and Shri Arjun Khotkar.

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