"Barla Giribabu owns a piece of land in the south of India where he has grown cotton for the past two decades. Like most farmers in India, his landholding is small. On top of the limited land size, vo ...
"John Lewis is among the companies “named and shamed” in a government list of employers found to be paying staff below the legal minimum wage. The employee-owned partnership was one of 191 companies i ...
"In Britain’s clothes-making capital, many workers are still being paid less than the minimum wage and a taskforce set up a year ago has resulted in no labour abuse prosecutions. Standing outside the ...
"Around 30-35 per cent of textile and garment factories in Vietnam have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS). VITAS chairman Vu Duc Gia ...
"Italian company Officina+39 has embraced the Bluesign way and joined the prestigious joint network of stakeholders to actively support sustainability and best practices in the industry. As a Bluesign ...
'"Retail solutions provider Mainetti, which works with the likes of Marks and Spencer and Superdry, has announced a strategic expansion into Turkey in a bid to meet increasing demand among internation ...
"Vintage and worn jeans, with their localized faded effect on knees, pockets and highlighted details, remain attractive and fashionable. But the way to achieve such looks in production is no longer co ...
"The UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) is working with IBM, Tech Data, and the Future Fashion Factory to design, prototype and pilot a new technology platform based on IBM technologies to help ...
"Leaders of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association said that the wide scale vaccination of Covid-19 for RMG workers would begin on August 8. They said that the lists of the wor ...
"A fire broke out at a leather factory in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila Wednesday afternoon, less than a month after a massive blaze killed 51 people at a food-processing factory in the area. Firefigh ...
"Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. today announces a partnership with one of India’s top universities to help promising students become global leaders of tomorrow. The company has signed an agreement with the ...
"Wrad, a Focus Design company whose mission is to challenge the status-quo through sustainable innovation and social change, has partnered with Italian leader in production of garment treatment techno ...
"A gen-Z shopper looks at how her generation is changing their approach in consuming fashion. [...] As part of the gen-Z myself (right on the cusp of millennial), I have been witnessing this fashion m ...
"The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh has done crucial work to make factories in Bangladesh safer. It could only do so because brands signed a legally binding agreement committing them ...
"Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) President Faruque Hassan on Tuesday said they have initiated a fund to help people affected by the Covid-19 considering the current ...
"*This tracker was last updated on August 4th, 2021. Our Accord Brand Tracker pulls heavily from the research of the Clean Clothes Campaign. For more information on individual brand actions, please vi ...
"TerraCycle recycles everything from Solo cups to Febreze canisters, but are they doing more harm than good? [...] A new lawsuit filed against TerraCycle in March 2020 alleges that it and its biggest ...
"With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending five episodes this series looking at pressing climate issues. In this episode we’re talking fast fashion. Summer is ...
"Shop workers at Next have won the first stage in a fight for equal pay that could lead to a payout of up to £100m. More than 400 mainly female workers in the fashion and homewares retailer’s stores s ...
"Fashion resale platform Poshmark has announced that its services will launch across India in the coming months. The company, whose marketplace enables users to sell unwanted items between them, is a ...
