Calvin Klein, Hilfiger eye Kenya’s planned textile city

Workers make clothes at an EPZ plant in Athi River. Construction of the Textile City will start in July. Photo/FILE

US-based global fashion houses Calvin Klein, Timberland and Tommy Hilfiger are eyeing space in Kenya’s planned Textile City, which will be set up in Athi River.

Construction of the city will start in July. Officials of the top clothing brands were in a delegation of 50 firms that were hosted by the Industrialisation secretary in a three-day fact-finding mission that ends today before the investors move to Uganda.

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