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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
Uzbekistan cotton sector still using forced labour
26th June 2020
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WASHINGTON – Uzbekistan has made significant strides in reducing the amount of forced labour in its cotton sector but has failed to eliminate it completely.
US petrochemicals boom threatens rPET sector
26th June 2020
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TEXAS – A leading US commodities expert has warned of the huge threat to global cotton markets by the US’s ongoing support of the petrochemicals
