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
AMSTERDAM – Bringing garment manufacture closer to home is not necessarily the solution to reducing poor working conditions for employees
ADDIS ABABA – One of China’s largest textile manufacturers, Wuxi Cotton Mill, has become the latest inward investor to head

GREENSBORO – US-based apparel and lifestyle retail brand VF Corporation has purchased New Zealand-based Icebreaker as it looks to increase
Aggressive tax avoidance schemes might make financial sense but for a growing number of consumers, they’re simply not cricket. When

ISTANBUL — Customers shopping at Zara, the fast fashion retailer owned by the world’s largest apparel company, Inditex, recently found
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s heavily export-orientated garment industry continues to show signs of upturn despite ongoing challenges around social compliance
Amazon’s continued encroachment into the apparel retail space will step up a gear in 2018, with traditional department stores facing

SAMARKAND – Uzbekistan will stage next year’s prestigious IAF World Fashion Convention. The decision to hold the 2024 event in the Central Asian state was

STOCKHOLM – Swedish fast fashion giant, H&M Group has issued a €500m green bond with a maturity of eight years under its EMTN (Euro Medium

AMSTERDAM – Spinnova, the Finnish recycled textile material company, has this week presented its first blended denim fabrics made with wood-based Spinnova fibre at the

TOKYO – Fast Retailing Co, owner of Japanese fast fashion brand Uniqlo, forecast 18 per cent growth in annual profit this week. The company said

BRUSSELS – The European Apparel and Textile Federation, EURATEX, has called on the EU presidency to develop a new competitiveness strategy to relaunch the European

DHAKA – The first ever initiative on climate action focusing on the fashion & apparel sector, the Bangladesh Climate Action Forum, concluded this week. Organised

LONDON – Italian fashion retailer Benetton is one of a dozen signatories to a new campaign calling for clearer information about the fabric composition of

LONDON – A new report claims global high street brands including Gap, adidas, H&M, M&S, Puma, Levi’s, Primark, Boohoo and Inditex are sourcing from Pakistani

LEICESTER – Workers, trade unions and labour rights campaigners staged a protest in Leicester this weekend over job losses in the city’s garment industry. Leicester
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