German retail start-up Fashion Cloud merges with Dutch peer Nyon

Fashion Cloud said that as a result of the deal, Nyon’s expertise and products in fashion buying, including the buying tool OrderWriter and data-sharing platform FashionExchange, will…

H&M launches circularity design tool, unveils circular party collection

It’s a two-part launch as, by 2025, it aims to have 100% of its brands’ products designed for circularity and it said that over the long term,…

German union calls strike at Amazon warehouses

Verdi has organized frequent strikes at Amazon in Germany since 2013 to press demands for the retailer to raise pay for warehouse workers in accordance with collective…

H&M opens entries for the 2020 Global Change Award

Now in its fifth year, the award aims to speed up the process of finding, supporting and scaling projects that have the potential to make the fashion…

In diamond centre Antwerp, Russian gems are already shunned

Major Western jewellers, from Tiffany’s to Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels have all been keen to distance themselves from Russia’s lucrative diamond trade. Imports of Russian…

Invista to sell advanced textile business to Shandong Ruy

Invista will retain ownership of its nylon, polyester, polyols and licensing businesses and related brands. This includes Invista’s world-leading nylon 6,6 intermediates business, its global nylon polymer…

Discounts surge in June, but interest in high street shopping also up – report

Sales aggregator site LovetheSales.com has been diving deep into UK shoppers’ online habits during the lockdown in recent months and its latest report says that “some of…

Last week before Christmas will bring no store traffic uplift

The decline prediction comes from specialist visitor traffic tracking firm Springboard, which expects overall footfall to drop as much as 3.5% year-on-year in week 51 of the…

Lenzing- A tour of the Austrian wood pulp fibre factory

Equipped with compulsory helmets and yellow waistcoats, badges for the security gates and gloves to bear the Austrian winter, the tour of to the 200-hectare historic Lenzing…

Levi Strauss to invest $3 million in fight against Covid-19

“We’ve […] heard from many of you asking what Levi Strauss & Co. is doing to help respond to the crisis,” said the CEO. “We know our response will…