Bagir and Obama

June 9, 2009 - 6:48 AM by · 6 Comments
Filed under: Business, coexistence, design, Environment, General, Politics, Technology 

Is he wearing Ecogir?

Is he wearing Ecogir?

President Obama isn’t the first guy to try and create a better working relationship between Israel and its neighbors…or so Israeli suit manufacturer Bagir is aiming to point out to whoever’s listening.

Turns out that Bagir’s latest technological suit, ECOGIR, which is made from recycled plastic bottles and has been written about on this site, is manufactured at Metco, a tailored clothing factory in Port Said. And 50% of what Bagir manufactures in Port Said goes to the U.S. while the other half heads to the UK market. In the U.S., EcoGir is available at Sears stores and online at Sears.com, where it’s called the Covington Perfect Poly-Wool Blazer. The Covington Perfect Poly-Wool Blazer

According to Offer Gilboa, Bagir’s CEO, the company “is grateful to the Obama administration for showing support in this area and appreciate the new administration’s effort in the regional peace process. Bagir has demonstrated a working relationship can not only be possible, but also profitable and congenial.”

Bagir, like Delta Galil and Tefron, the two other Israeli textile companies that do business with their Jordanian and Egyptian neighbors, has been working with Egypt since the U.S. signed a historic trade partnership with both Egypt and Israel five years ago. The agreement created Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) in Egypt and Jordan, which allow for duty-free export of certain Egyptian and Jordanian goods that contain Israeli inputs to the U.S.

The QIZs have created working relationships that continue despite war, disagreements and political machinations. Work continued this winter(see page 14), in spite of the fighting in Gaza, and during other periods of upheaval.

You figure that if people can get along well enough to make suits out of recycled bottles, they could figure out other methods of getting along.

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