
Investors head to Kenya for apparel expansion
DUBAI – The continued investor interest in Africa as the Next Big Thing in apparel sourcing appears to be showing

DUBAI – The continued investor interest in Africa as the Next Big Thing in apparel sourcing appears to be showing

LONDON – Shares of British fashion chain, French Connection, rose by 20 per cent – to their highest value since

ZURICH – Leading Swiss standards organisation, Oeko-Tex, has developed a new testing procedure to help companies in the global textile

LONDON – The gender pay gap at rapidly growing UK ultra fast fashion business, Missguided, is 46.3 per cent, while

NORTH CAROLINA – Cotton and wool are perceived by consumers as the most sustainable fibres according to a new environmental

DHAKA – The Bangladeshi Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser has called for the re-imposition of sanctions against Myanmar in the

NEW YORK – US-based publicly held corporations are beginning to report typical pay gaps between their CEOs and typical workers

LONDON – The apparel resale market will hit US$20bn by 2022, according to new research, as a new generation of

LONDON – UK retailer, Marks & Spencer, has finally signed the 2018 Bangladesh Accord amid growing public pressure. M&S follows

SHANGHAI – Lycra Company is targeting China’s stretch yarn market through a new partnership with Texhong International Group focused on renewable fibres. Under the deal,

TOKYO – Spiber has relaunched under new leadership, with the Japanese biomaterials company sharpening its focus on commercialisation. Chief executive Maya Kawana will lead business

LONDON – A new survey suggests poor product information is fuelling avoidable fashion returns, causing brands to still lose sales and margin. Akeneo’s 2025 Consumer Returns

LONDON – Archroma and Turkish denim manufacturer ORTA are launching a denim collection dyed with colourants made partly from wool waste. The collection will be

LONDON – Bangladesh strengthened its hold on the global denim trade in 2025, extending its lead in both the EU and US markets. Shipments to

GIA LAI – H&M-backed textile recycling business Syre has signed a deal with engineering group ABB as it pushes ahead with its first plant in

BRUSSELS – The EU has announced a major overhaul of its customs code which will hit fashion brands selling cheap parcels direct into the EU.

AMSTERDAM – Fashion for Good has launched a project to test whether mass balance accounting could be used for biomass-attributed PET for clothing. The work

STOCKHOLM – Renasens has raised €10m to scale a textile recycling technology that uses supercritical CO2 to recover fibres from blended waste. The Swedish start-up
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