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Brands make recycled polyester pledge
TEXAS – A group of leading international apparel brands have publicly pledged to increase their use of recycled polyester (rPET)
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Woes continue for J Crew Group
NEW YORK – US apparel retailer J Crew Group has announced a sobering set of financial results for the third
VF Corp backs foam dyeing technology
TEXAS – US denim brands Wrangler and Lee have put their financial weight behind a new foam dyeing process which claims
Europe’s sweatshops uncovered in report on garment production
AMSTERDAM – Bringing garment manufacture closer to home is not necessarily the solution to reducing poor working conditions for employees
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
Bio-based nylon focus of Aquafil initiative
23rd May 2018
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TRENTO – Aquafil, an Italian producer of polyamide in Italy, is spearheading a new initiative aimed at increasing the amount of sustainable fibres, with an
US$3m funding for biotech dye business
23rd May 2018
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PARIS – A French biotech dye business which engineers microbes to produce natural dyes for textiles has received US$3m in funding to enable it to
New evidence of forced cotton picking in Uzbekistan
23rd May 2018
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BERLIN – There are calls for the World Bank to acknowledge “violations in loan agreements to Uzbekistan” because of “credible evidence of forced labor” in
