Pic: Ralph Koch for Mayer & Cie. Mayer & Cie. has been named a Top 100 award-winner for the third time as one of Germany’s most innovative small and mid-range businesses. The jury made special mention of the circular knitting and braiding machine manufacturer’s innovative processes. In all, 436 companies, including about ten […]

Most consumers (66 per cent) who are aware of microplastic pollution, know that most of it is caused by washing clothing made from synthetic fibres, according to US’ Cotton Incorporated’s Lifestyle Monitor Survey. Around 40 per cent are aware of the concerns that microfibres from clothing are polluting the global water bodies, up […]

European fashion apparel retailers are revamping their IT capabilities to keep up with changing consumer behaviour trends. These new retail technologies that are being implemented are enabling novel shopping experiences that allow for amenities like social commerce, voice commerce, curb-side pickup, and home delivery, a recent report has revealed. Retailers that are based […]

With 117 participating nations, around 63,000 visitors and 2,300 exhibitors, a brilliant re-launch of Techtextil, Texprocess and Heimtextil Summer Special was achieved. Across all three events, Italy, France, Turkey, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Pakistan and the US formed the top visitor nations. On all three business […]

Ontex, a Belgium-based provider of personal hygiene products and services, has announced that the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) has approved its climate action targets. SBTI is a collaboration between the United Nations Global Compact, the World-Wide Fund for Nature, the World Resources Institute and the Carbon Disclosure Project. SBTI confirms that the Ontex […]

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Flipkart, India’s homegrown internet ecosystem, has committed to setting an ambitious net zero target to decarbonise its own operations by 2030 and the larger value chain by 2040. This is in line with the global Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi) of keeping the global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius per the Paris Climate Agreement. […]

ESW, a global direct-to-consumer (DTC) e-commerce company, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Scalefast, a Los Angeles-based e-commerce solution provider. The acquisition further extends ESW’s market strength in apparel, beauty, personal care, and luxury markets into categories including entertainment, gaming and electronics. ESW’s unrivalled global and domestic DTC e-commerce ecosystem will be […]

Global multi-brand e-retailer Amazon is heavily dependent on two Asian major economies—India and China—for apparel and home textiles. The two countries together account for more than 54 per cent of the total 353 suppliers of apparel to Amazon. Likewise, in home textiles more than half of the suppliers are from India, while over […]

A new cargo train carrying 50 containers departed on January 12 from Urad Back banner (division) in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and is expected to arrive in Moscow in about 10 days. A new cargo train to Moscow departed from Quanzhou in Fujian Province on January 18. Both the trains are the […]