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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
Nike snubs investor-led Workforce Disclosure Initiative
27th March 2019
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LONDON – Nike has for the second year running failed to engage with an initiative whereby global investment groups probe listed companies on how they
70 killed at factory producing textile chemical intermediaries
27th March 2019
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YANCHENG – A huge chemical plant explosion in China has killed at least 70 people and injured hundreds of others. 640 people were hospitalised following
Unions denied access to flagship Ethiopia textile park
27th March 2019
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HAWASSA – Thousands of workers at Ethiopia’s biggest industrial park have been striking demanding that unions be allowed access to the park to help press
