In 2011, the overall size of the Textile & Clothing industry in the EU-27 represents a turnover of 179 billion € and investments of around 5 billion €. Despite the strong impact of the global economic recession in 2009, the 146.000 T&C companies still employ over 1,8 million workers.

In 2010, the overall size of the Textile & Clothing industry in the EU-27 represents a turnover of 172 billion € and investments of around 5 billion €. Despite the strong impact of the global economic recession the previous year, the 127.000 T&C companies still employ over 1,9 million workers

In 2009, the overall size of the Textile & Clothing industry in the EU-27 represents a turnover of 167 billion € and investments of around 5 billion €. Despite the strong impact of the global economic recession, the 128.000 T&C companies still employ over 2 million workers.