China expands footprint in Ethiopian textile sector
ADDIS ABABA – One of China’s largest textile manufacturers, Wuxi Cotton Mill, has become the latest inward investor to head
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VF Corp buys natural fibre specialist Icebreaker
GREENSBORO – US-based apparel and lifestyle retail brand VF Corporation has purchased New Zealand-based Icebreaker as it looks to increase
Fair play?
Aggressive tax avoidance schemes might make financial sense but for a growing number of consumers, they’re simply not cricket. When
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A cry for help?
ISTANBUL — Customers shopping at Zara, the fast fashion retailer owned by the world’s largest apparel company, Inditex, recently found
Further growth for Cambodia garment exports
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s heavily export-orientated garment industry continues to show signs of upturn despite ongoing challenges around social compliance
Amazon threat looms large for retailers
Amazon’s continued encroachment into the apparel retail space will step up a gear in 2018, with traditional department stores facing
C&A event celebrates organic cotton in Madhya Pradesh
8th May 2018
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BHOPAL – The C&A Foundation recently gathered cotton sector stakeholders in India to look at ways to boost organic cotton output in Madhya Pradesh –
Li & Fung introduces ‘sewbots’ in supply chains
8th May 2018
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HONG KONG – Global apparel supply chain management and logistics business, Li & Fung, has partnered with a US company whose robotics technology can make
DNA technology boosts Australian cotton traceability
8th May 2018
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MOREE – Efforts to fully trace Australian cotton along the entire supply chain have been given a boost with news that cotton ginning business Louis
H&M evasive on living wage issue
8th May 2018
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STOCKHOLM – H&M has responded to international calls for it to fulfil previous living wage pledges by issuing a statement which raises far more questions
