je.st
news
Tag: garment
Agreement reach after 72-day Myanmar garment worker strike
2018-11-01 12:14:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
An agreement has been reached between owners of the Fu Yuen Garment Factory in Yangon, Myanmar, following the sacking of 30 workers and protests involving 300 others.
Tags: agreement
reach
strike
worker
Buyer pressure on cost weighs on garment suppliers
2018-10-31 15:01:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
More details have emerged on the disconnect between the purchasing practices of apparel brands and retailers and the ramifications for suppliers - with relentless pressure to reduce costs blamed for raising the risk of disruption, and environmental and human catastrophe.
Tags: cost
pressure
buyer
suppliers
Nanollose makes first garment from tree-free rayon
2018-10-31 10:41:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Australian biotechnology company Nanollose says it has successfully created its first test-garment made from Nullarbor fibre, a sustainable alternative to rayon and cotton.
Tags: makes
rayon
garment
treefree
Pakistan textile, garment exports edge up in Q1
2018-10-29 14:25:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Pakistan saw the value of its textile and garment exports edge up nearly 1% in the first quarter of the year, with the latter sector weighing on the overall result.
Tags: edge
pakistan
textile
exports
The failure of the US garment industry - Part I
2018-10-29 13:14:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
For the past 20 years, imports have accounted for between 97%-98% of all garments sold in the United States. But while everyone seems to agree that cheap labour from poor countries has all but destroyed the domestic US manufacturing industry, that assumption is not borne out by the data. In fact, the data shows that labour rates - high or low - have nothing to do with imports, garments or otherwise. Here, in the first of a three-part series, David Birnbaum takes a look at the failure of the US garment industry.
Sites : [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] next »