The Sustainable Apparel Coalition () has launched Higg Co., a public benefit company that will develop the technology that delivers the Higg Index, a holistic suite of sustainability assessment tools used globally by brands, retailers and manufacturers to measure the environmental and social performance of a company or product.Higg Co. will provide the trusted technology industry needs to be able to implement the Higg Index at scale while the SAC will continue to focus on driving sustainability

Biofuze is produced using a unique patent process yarn. © Paradise TextilesFirst introduced at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, Paradise Textiles, the textiles arm of Alpine Creations, a leader in textile and apparel biodegradable manufacturing, has announcedBiofuze, its new range of man-made fibres that exhibit enhanced biodegradability at their end of life.“We believe environmental sustainability is everyone’s responsibility,” said Paradise Textiles co-founder Ashok Mahtani. “With the in

ACIMIT member companies exhibiting at Texhtextil, earlier this month. © Innovation in TextilesAround 360 companies will be representing Italian textile machinery manufacturing sector at the upcoming ITMA show, with an occupied exhibition area of 30,000 square metres, which makes Italy the top country in terms of number of exhibitors and occupied surface.ITMA, a leading showcase for manufacturers of textile machines, who display their up to date innovations to an international professional audien

Retailers should actually pay €33more for a pair of jeans to take into account hidden costs such as damage to the climate and workers’ rights, encountered during production of jeans, says aby Impact Institute and ABN AMRO. At present, the costs such as water pollution and water consumption, illicit labour practices, are not currently being paid.In the report ‘The Hidden Costs of Jeans’, researchers from the Impact Institute investigated a typical production chain for jeans: fromplantations and d

The fourth edition of Denimsandjeans Vietnam, which is scheduled for June 12-13, 2019, in Ho Chi Minh City, has released the list of exhibitors. Over 40 denim companies from 10 countries will exhibit at the event, which will also have participation of several reputed garment exporters. Two design houses from China will also be present at the show.Pic: Denimsandjeans VietnamFive garment exporters from Vietnam—TCE Vina Denim, T&T Garments, Navi Jeans, Resource Garments, and Knit Indigo—will ex

Deckers Brands, a company into designing, marketing and distributing footwear, apparel, etc, has recorded net sales of $394.1 million in Q4 of FY2019 ending March 31, 2019. This shows a decrease of 1.6 per cent from $400.7 million for Q4 of FY2018. For full year of FY2019, net sales increased 6.2 per cent to $2.020 billion from $1.903 billion in FY2018.Pic: DeckersDeckers Brands portfolio of brands includes UGG, Koolaburra, Hoka One One, Teva and Sanuk. The UGGnet sales for Q4 decreased 7.2 per

Welspun India Limited (WIL), part of the $2.3 billion Welspun Group, has registered 46 per cent year-on-year growth during Q4 FY19 in domestic branded business with focus on ‘Spaces’ and ‘Welspun’targeting differentsegments. The company continues to focus on innovation and 38 per cent of its sales were through innovative products.Pic: ShutterstockIn the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018-19 that ended on March 31, WIL’s total income stood at ₹16.009 billion, registering a growth of 4.3 per cent over

Sportswear has now become a fashion trend among non-athletic people. Awareness is growing to mass people for health and fitness in developing countries and the global sportswear market is tremendously booming.Increasing participation of women in sports and fitness activities is another major driver for this growth. In 2018, the market value of sportswear was US$ 84.1 billion. It is predicted to be worth the US $ 108.7 billion by 2025 with CAGR of 3.3%.Said a recent research report published by Q

The future of exhaust dyeing has arrived:TM’s disruptive, patent pending, sustainable cationic textile dyeing technology, The Nano-DyeTMProcess, sets a new benchmark for exhaust dyers in the cotton and cotton blend textile arena with the start-up of its first two continuous, mass production systems in Bangladesh with one in March 2019 and the second this May 2019.Nano-DyeTM’s award-winning prototype system released in 2014 led to this monumental milestone. Through collaboration with leading text

First quarter comparable digital channel sales of Target Corporation grew 42 per cent, on top of 28 percent last year. Comparable digital sales contributed 2.1 percentage points to Target's overall comparable sales growth. In the first quarter of fiscal 2019, the comparable sales of Target grew 4.8 per cent on traffic growth of 4.3 per cent.Pic: Target CorporationTotal revenue of $17.6 billion increased 5.0 per cent from $16.8 billion last year, reflecting sales growth of 5.1 per cent combin