
UK Government rejects Uyghur slave labour proposals
LONDON – The UK Government has rejected proposals aimed at preventing companies sourcing goods made by Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang, China.

LONDON – The UK Government has rejected proposals aimed at preventing companies sourcing goods made by Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang, China.

ARTEIXO – Spanish fashion giant Inditex has reported first-quarter net profits of €421m, easily beating analysts’ expectations. However, the figure is

NEW YORK – The world’s leading thread manufacturer has partnered with a US molecular tagging business to bring fully traceable

LONDON – The UK government will launch a single enforcement body to protect workers’ rights and clamp down on unscrupulous

DHAKA – Bangladesh garment exporters should be financially incentivised to shift to the production of clothing from man-made fibres (MMF),

BEIJING – China has ramped up its war on Western brands by accusing clothing brands Nike, H&M and Zara of

WASHINGTON – Bestseller, Primark and H&M have been accused of prioritizing profit over human rights by resuming sourcing from Myanmar

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LENZING – Austrian fibre-maker Lenzing and wood pulp supplier Södra have signed an agreement to dramatically boost the production of

TEXAS – Textile Exchange has published a major new cotton LCA that shows how sharply impacts can vary across production systems and geographies. The study,

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

BEIJING – Shein has used new customer survey data to claim “circular fashion” habits are already common among its shoppers. The online retailer said repeat

STOCKHOLM – H&M Group reported falling sales and flat financial performance in 2025, with net sales down 2.6 per cent to US$24.15bn from US$24.81bn. Sales

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

BRUSSELS – The EU has launched an €11m fund to support textile recycling technologies for mixed post-consumer clothing waste from blended products. The call, under

BRUSSELS – 15 MEPs have urged the European Commission not to limit upcoming textile ecodesign rules to recyclability and recycled content alone. In a letter

BREMEN – Cotton farming is under growing pressure from weak farm economics, climate disruption and rising production risks. This is the warning of the International
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