Volume of Business Between Middle East & India Grows

Siddharth Sinha, CEO of Vogue International Agencies FZE, watches as one of his Egyptian workers sews blue jeans on the production lines October 27, 2008 at the Velocity jeans factory in Ismailia (130 kilometers north of Cairo, Egypt.) Siddharth, along with his father Air Marshal Man Mohan Sinha, have been operating their jeans factories in Egypt since 2001, employing 2700 Egyptian workers while supplying jeans to major companies that include Levis, Target, and Zara.

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Siddharth Sinha, CEO of Vogue International Agencies FZE, watches as one of his Egyptian workers sews blue jeans on the production lines October 27, 2008 at the Velocity jeans factory in Ismailia (130 kilometers north of Cairo, Egypt.) Siddharth, along with his father Air Marshal Man Mohan Sinha, have been operating their jeans factories in Egypt since 2001, employing 2700 Egyptian workers while supplying jeans to major companies that include Levis, Target, and Zara.