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Oxfam Australia report charts living wage progress
MELBOURNE – Oxfam Australia has released its 2021 ‘Naughty or Nice’ list in which it argues that some of the
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Why alpaca is perfect fit for fashion’s SDG goals
AREQUIPA – More than one third of all alpaca fibre exports from Peru could be Responsible Alpaca Fibre (RAS) certified
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Retailers slammed for hiding from safety pledges
Nine years since a deadly fire at a major Bangladesh garment supplier, campaigners are urging Walmart and other retailers to
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Greenpeace calls for laws to curb fashion’s excesses
HAMBURG – The global fashion industry will not address its destructive impact on the climate without regulation, according to a
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FibreTrace launches traceable Benin cotton pilot
GLO-DJIGBÉ – Traceable textile specialist FibreTrace has announced a partnership with industrial park developer Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP)
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US$1 trillion to decarbonise fashion supply chains
WASHINGTON – Decarbonising global fashion supply chains to achieve a net-zero fashion industry by 2050 will cost more than one
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Xinjiang cotton reaching fashion supply chains
SHEFFIELD – Banned cotton from Xinjiang in China is still making its way into global fashion supply chains and final
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GPS tracking sting finds Nike destroying returned trainers
OREGON – US sportswear brand Nike is destroying newly returned trainers, according to a team of investigative journalists from Germany.
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Fashion supply chain costs soaring, survey finds
LONDON – The era of sourcing-cost price deflation in fashion supply chains is over, according to a new survey of
Net sales surge as innovation pays for Inditex
12th January 2018
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ARTEIXO – Sales jumped by ten per cent at the world’s largest fashion retailer, Inditex, in the first nine months of 2017, to €17.96bn. The
H&M expands Alibaba collaboration amid sluggish sales
12th January 2018
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STOCKHOLM – H&M has taken a significant step towards increasing its share of the burgeoning Chinese apparel market by expanding its collaboration with Alibaba. H&M
US ruling protects domestic polyester sector
12th January 2018
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WASHINGTON – US polyester manufacturers have applauded a decision by the US Department of Commerce to apply tariffs to fine denier polyester staple fibre (fine
Armani, Primark urged to disclose supplier lists
12th January 2018
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AMSTERDAM – A campaign led by Human Rights Watch, Clean Clothes Campaign, and International Labor Rights Forum is calling on Armani, Primark, Urban Outfitters, Forever
New tool links brands to Chinese supplier factories
12th January 2018
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NEW YORK – Six leading apparel brands, Target, Esprit, New Balance, Puma, Gap Inc and Inditex, have shared their supplier lists with two NGOs, the US-based
What price sustainability?
12th January 2018
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We’re all ethical shoppers right? Well not quite. New research shows 78 per cent of us base our purchasing decisions mainly on price. The EY
