
Price squeeze continues for garment factories
AMSTERDAM – Research among more than 700 apparel suppliers globally has found continued downward pressure on prices faced by factory

AMSTERDAM – Research among more than 700 apparel suppliers globally has found continued downward pressure on prices faced by factory

LONDON – The British Fashion Council (BFC) has claimed a no deal Brexit could cost the UK fashion sector up

YANGON – More than 4,500 workers from 50 garment factories in Myanmar recently demonstrated demanding that the newly revised law

EXCLUSIVE – Rubana Huq, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), has sought to provide some much-needed clarity around

BERLIN – Budget men’s dress shirts beat their luxury counterparts in German tests which compared them on durability, comfort, care

PARIS – The G7 sustainable Fashion Pact of French President Macron should also have included pledges on worker conditions and

DUBLIN – Primark has expanded its cotton programme which trains farmers in methods aimed at minimising the environmental impact of

AMSTDERDM – A new garment factory safety initiative in India has been accused of ignoring worker voices and the mistakes

TEXAS – Textile Exchange has announced that its annual conference in Vancouver this year will be climate neutral. The US

SAN FRANCISCO -Troubled footwear brand Allbirds is abandoning shoes for AI infrastructure in one of the most abrupt pivots ever seen in consumer markets. The

HAMBURG – More than 40,000 smallholder farmers in India and Tanzania are now growing cotton under the Regenerative Cotton Standard. This is according to the

DHAKA – Bangladesh has made some progress under the ILO’s roadmap, but unions say factory conditions remain far behind the reforms promised. The warning comes

LONDON – Fashion brands responded to the 2025 tariff shock by pausing orders, pushing for lower prices and shifting costs onto suppliers. This is the

VALENCIA – Spanish recycled cotton fibre business, Recover, and Chinese denim manufacturer, Prosperity Textile, are to develop a new denim collection. Production will take place

ENSCHEDE – Dutch textile recycling innovator SaXcell has confirmed plans to open a pulp plant in the Netherlands in early 2027. The company is also

LONDON – Primark claims 5 per cent of clothing units sold in 2024/25 were ‘circular by design,’ 20 per cent of jersey and 8 per

AMSTERDAM – Fashion for Good has launched a new project to help unlock post-consumer textile waste for textile recycling in Europe. Adidas is the lead

EINDHOVEN – RE&UP, Madewell and ISKO have turned 20,000 pairs of post-consumer jeans into feedstock for a new textile-to-textile denim capsule. The collection launched on
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