
High street woes continue with JC Penney job losses
TEXAS – US retailer JC Penney has announced it is to close its Milwaukee distribution and customer care centre with

TEXAS – US retailer JC Penney has announced it is to close its Milwaukee distribution and customer care centre with

TEXAS – An apparel industry working group set up to ensure down is produced responsibly lacks transparency and puts industry

AMSTERDAM – German sportswear brand, Adidas, has dismissed claims it should use its leverage to pressure one of its suppliers

GENEVA – Child labour is no longer being used in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields, claims a new report, potentially reopening the

PARIS – A survey of textile and apparel suppliers found more than half have accepted brand and retailer orders that

NEW YORK – Apparel shoppers are switching to Amazon in their droves according to new research, with the convenience and

AMSTERDAM – Almost 90 per cent of waste textile items collected in a recent EU backed study were found to
Apparel businesses are mistaken if they think that shifting to low cost sourcing countries is the key to long term

DHAKA – Researchers from Bangladesh have successfully dyed cotton fabric using seawater. The scientists dyed two batches of cotton fabric,

LONDON – A new report has warned of the risks of cotton that was picked using forced labour in Turkmenistan finding its way into apparel

NEW YORK – PVH, which owns the Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein brands, recorded revenues of nearly US$9.7bn for FY2018 ,with online revenues breaking the

AMSTERDAM – All 745 ready-made garment factories under the Bangladeshi government’s inspection programme have yet to eliminate high risk safety hazards, all of which were

STOCKHOLM – A new collection from H&M will use fibres produced from oranges, pineapples and algae biomass. The retailer’s latest ‘Conscious Collection’ is its most

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

LEEDS – George, the fashion and homewares arm of the supermarket Asda, has pledged to use only recycled polyester in its collections by 2025. The

DHAKA – Just 100 out of 1688 ready-made garment factories covered by the Bangladesh Accord have so far been handed over to Remediation Coordination Cell

LONDON – Better Cotton Initiative produce achieved record uptake in 2018. BCI retail and brand members sourced more than one million metric tonnes of Better

AMSTERDAM – The developers of a new tracing system say they are confident they will soon be able to fully trace organic cotton from the
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