chandigarh the fifa world cup has come as boon for jalandhars sports industry as goods makers here have received bulk orders making about 10 lakh promotional soccer balls for exporting to various countries due to rising demand from overseas and domestic market owing to the megaevent sports goods makers are expecting 3040 per cent jump in soccer balls sales this season a jalandharbased sports goods maker rattan brothers exported 80000 promotional balls through a fifa approved oem player to brazil where the sporting event is to be held starting tonight we have supplied 80000 soccer balls through fifa approved oem player rattan brothers director tilak khinder told pti today the company has also shipped over two lakh footballs to countries including australia france england hungry and new zealand another sports goods maker nivia sports is also expecting a big jump in sales there is a spurt in demand for soccer balls because of fifa world cup which generated a lot of orders within next two months we will be gaining from the fifa world cup the jump in our sales will be between 30 and 40 per cent as against sales of previous year nivia sports md rajesh kharbanda said kharbanda further said ecommerce portals like amazon and flipcart have placed big orders for balls there is also great demand for balls this time from smaller cities like tierii and tier iii moreover big retail shops are also buying balls he said a few sports goods makers here who faced stiff competition from china and pakistan while bagging orders produced balls by using imported machinery instead of making handstitched balls this time we imported machinery and produced mechanically stitched soccer balls which helped us keep up mthe pace with orders said khinder pti published on jun 12 2014 at 0525 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app tilak khinder rattan brothers jalandhar fifa world cup sports industry bulk orders homenewsfifa world cup jalandhars sports industry gets bulk orders