CATGO Releases 2011 Annual Report: “A New Vision”

The Cotton Arbitration and Testing General Organization (CATGO) has released the 2011 edition of its Annual Report, entitled “A New Vision.” The 100-page document includes 14 entries from cotton industry thought leaders from around the globe, beginning with a four-page feature – A New Vision for Egyptian Cotton – from CATGO Chairman Dr. Mahmoud El Bagoury.

The other entries in this year’s editi:

• Textile Industry and Global Financial Crisis: World, Africa & Egypt, by Christian Schindler, Director General, International Textile Manufacturers Federation
• World Supply and Demand, by Ray Butler, President, International Cotton Association 
• Review of Cotton Prices, by Elke Hortmeyer, Head of Economic Research & Communications, Bremen Cotton Exchange
• A Predictable Predicament, by Jesse Curlee, President, Supima
• World Cotton Production, Consumption & Trade in the 21st Century, by the International Cotton Advisory Committee’s (ICAC) Terry Townsend, Armelle Gruere, Andrei Guitchounts, Alejandro Plastina
• Cotton Demand Enhancement: Why bother?, by Jeffrey Silberman, Executive Director of the International Forum for Cotton Promotion, and the Chairperson of the Textile Development and Marketing Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City
• The Broken Cotton Futures Market, by William B. Griffin, Program Director, International Cotton Institute
• How Government Policies and Consumer Pressure for Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions in US Cotton Could Affect How and Where Cotton is Produced, by the University of Arkansas’s Lanier Nalley, Mike Popp, and Zara Niederman 
• Update on Irrigation of Cotton, by ICAC’s Rafiq Chaudh
• Price Volatility for Cotton and Other Commodities, by ICAC’s Alejandro Plastina, 
• World Cotton Situation Record Prices Are Caused by Short Supply, by ICAC’s Andrei Guitchounts
• Instrument Testing of Cotton: General and Africa-Specific Aspects, by Axel Drieling, Faserinstitut Bremen 
• A New Playbook for Cotton’s New Game, by Mike McCue, editor, Cotton International magazine

To download a PDF copy of the report, please click here.