"The boss of online fashion retailer boohoo Group PLC says that there is a 'bright future' for garment manufacturing in Leicester after the company opened its first manufacturing facility in the city. ...
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"A fire destroyed a garment factory and reduced goods worth millions of rupees in the Landhi Export Processing Zone on Friday." ...
"Tesco has said that its hourly pay for shop staff and warehouse workers will be increased by 5.8% from £9.55 to £10.10. The retailer, which is the UK’s largest private employer, said the pay increase ...
"The GPCB also issued a closure notice and slapped penalty notice of Rs 50 lakh to the company for Environment Damage Compensation on April 5. Ankleshwar Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) officia ...
"Cross Textiles, a denim & lifestyle brand and producer with customers such as Jack & Jones, H&M, Inditex, Ralph Lauren and Mango, selected NX Filtration for the delivery of its direct nanofiltration ...
"As part of the IFC’s Cambodia Improvement Program, ten suppliers with cut-and-sew and garment-washing operations implemented resource efficiency measures in 2019 and 2020, saving energy and water con ...
"The 3rd edition of the MIPTV SDG Award was presented to the Association of Commercial Television and VOD Services in Europe (ACT) at a ceremony held in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on A ...
"The owner of Coach and Kate Spade is expanding its supply chain responsibility efforts by partnering with World Wildlife Fund to enable the certification of deforestation-free leather, one of the ind ...
"Amazon.com Inc., the world's biggest retailer, will face a shareholder vote calling for an independent audit of its treatment of warehouse workers after the top U.S. securities regulator turned down ...
"The fashion industry is about to cross a new Rubicon of choice and convenience. But that opportunity is also dragging a complicated, damaging legacy with it. For a long time “fast fashion” has been s ...
"International business and investment depend on the use of globally accepted currencies, particularly the U.S. dollar, to conduct business. Businesses operating in Myanmar do so based on laws, specif ...
"Strapped for hard currency, the Myanmar junta has moved to seize foreign currencies in the country by ordering that foreign exchange earned by locals must be converted into the local currency at the ...
"The video circulating of a blood-red river near the Pekojan Bridge in Semarang has shocked the people of the capital city of Central Java. This is the first time this incident has occurred in the his ...
"Trade unions say labor rights abuses in Burma have been on the rise since 2021. In addition to the closure of factories without pay, there are more and more businesses in industrial zones that do not ...
"At east 65 women working in a garment factory have been poisoned after inhaling a chemical after it was leaked in a factory located in Al-Sarhan District, in the Mafraq Governorate, northeastern Jord ...
"One big target is reducing greenhouse gas emissions and for the past two decades many brands have signed up to a scheme called the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent body that awards gra ...
Workers at Tianjin Fashion Milestone say they are forced to work a half-day each Sunday but receive no overtime payment. The factory, which employs around 1,000 people, does not provide workers with o ...
"Praveen Kumar, a resident of Garhi Pukhta, has a cotton factory in the Industries area of Sadar Kotwali area of Shamli district, which caught fire due to a short circuit. The factory owners rushed to ...
"A massive fire broke out at a handloom factory in Ramnagar, Ward 6, located on Babel Road in Haryana's Panipat district. The factory owner working on a machine was burnt alive." ...
"Politicians, professionals and labour leaders said at a commemoration meeting on Friday that the garment labour right bodies should be united for realising the rights of the workers. The government a ...