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The Flanarant - Is China really going through a slump?
2016-05-18 17:27:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Slowing economic growth and growing competition are hitting the profits of Chinese retailers, while the country's clothing exports to the US dropped 39% year-on-year in March. Mike Flanagan takes a closer look at what this might mean for the apparel industry.
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The Flanarant - Are apparel prices really rising?
2016-02-09 10:41:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
There's hardly an apparel industry commentator on the planet who's not forever going on about rising cost prices, writes Mike Flanagan. But he also wonders how often any of them look at what buyers are paying.
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Flanarant - New Year forecasts begin with excess expectations
2016-01-13 18:22:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Don't believe those New Year forecasts, warns Mike Flanagan, as he debunks a few stories about four issues that are likely to be important in garment sourcing for some time.
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Flanarant - Apparel sourcing strategies continue to diverge
2015-12-15 12:40:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Last week's announcement by Adidas that it expects its costs to rise sharply over the next five years underlines some crucial changes buyers in different countries have seen in their sourcing operations since the beginning of this century, explains Mike Flanagan.
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The Flanarant - Will the TPP pass into law?
2015-11-11 18:32:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Flanarant - Will the TPP pass into law? Last week, on 5 November, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) published the detailed text of the agreement that its 12 potential members had reached exactly a month earlier. Publication coincided with a number of events illustrating just how unpredictable the deal's approval by those countries' legislatures is likely to be. They raise a number of questions:
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