UK supermarket chains, including Aldi, Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose & Partners have joined together as founding sponsors of the Responsible Recruitment Toolkit (RRT), a one-stop, practical capacity-building tool supporting businesses to embed responsible recruitment practices in their supply chains. The tool will offer expertise to suppliers. Pic: Responsible Recruitment Toolkit Recruitment and labour provision have been identified as presenting amongst the greatest w

Joor, the largest wholesale platform and data exchange for fashion, beauty and home, is entering Germany, solidifying its dominance across Europe. Joor has added German brands to its wholesale marketplace, including S Oliver Group labels Comma and Liebeskind and other brands such as Dorothee Schumacher, Juvia, Komplott, lala Berlin, and Ulla Popken. Pic: Joor Germany’s apparel market value is the highest in Europe, and is expected to reach over $60B in 2022, according to Statista. “Joor

The first integrated apparel manufacturing park in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district, called ‘Gobi Apparel Park, will come up at Kolapalur village in Gobichettipalayam. With a cost of ₹ 106.58 crore, it is expected to provide jobs to 7,000. Funded by the textiles ministry under the state Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP), it can host 12 companies. A company opened office there early this week, according to a report in a top English-language daily. The park would have effluent an

The Telangana state government and the Textile Association of India recently felicitated Mrugank Paranjape, managing director and chief executive officer of the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX), in recognition of his special contribution to the textile sector. He was felicitated at the CEO Conclave 2019, a two-day event in Hyderabad last week. The award is a direct result of the relentless determination displayed by our workforce while catering to risk management needs of stakeho

The Print Make Wear fast fashion factory feature at FESPA Global Expo 2019 to be held during May 14-17, 2019 in Munich will double in size compared with its launch in 2018 in response to positive visitor feedback. The feature was introduced at the flagship FESPA event in Berlin in 2018 for visitors interested in printed fashion textiles and garments. Pic: AD Communications Taking the form of a live production environment, Print Make Wear addresses every step in the garment production proces

Having identified the five priority areas, Coats has set ambitious targets to be achieved by 2022. The five areas are water, energy, effluent and emissions, social and living sustainably. Coats identified the areas by first considering the values and ethics which are most important to employees, customers and investors as well as the end consumer. Pic: CoatsThese key stakeholder groups are making increasingly influential demands for action on sustainability across all markets and industries,

Nielsen and NPD have joined hands to build a large-scale, comprehensive omnishopper consumer panel, pairing Nielsen's consumer packaged goods (CPG) measurement with NPD's general merchandise consumer measurement to bring insight into today's emerging omnishoppers, including all shoppers across all channels, and all products across all categories. The two have released details around this alliance that reimagines the future of omnishopper measurement and marks a key milestone in Nielsen's mea

There were recent signals of Mexico taking steps to protect its textile industry as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said producers had been left ‘defenceless’ by earlier governments. The government earlier reduced tariffs for textile and footwear imports from nations with which Mexico has no trade agreements. Obrador indicated a U-turn on those moves. “We’ll review this case, always thinking about protecting national industry,” global newswires quoted Obrador as saying. Obrador dub

CuRe Polyester Recycling Technology, a new investment in low energy polyester recycling has been launched, treating any type of used polyester, removing colour and turning it back into clear pellets with the same properties. The goal is to recycle used polyester waste streams in polyester suitable for high demanding applications like carpets and textiles. Pic: Cumapol The recycling process is developed by Cumapol, DuFor and two Universities of Applied Science (NHL Stenden and Windesheim). Ot

Kohl’s is one of the 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies. The World's Most Ethical Companies is an annual assessment conducted by the Ethisphere Institute that looks at five key categories of a company including its ethics and compliance programme, culture of ethics, corporate citizenship and responsibility, governance, and leadership and reputation. Pic: Kohl's This year marks Kohl’s first recognition by the Ethisphere Institute as one of two 2019 honorees in the retail industry. Ethisphere