The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted Indonesia’s digitisation efforts within its apparel sector. Only a few large companies have adopted new industrial revolution 4.0 technologies amid a slump in exports, government officials and industry executives have...
Concerns continue around the major energy theme of sustainability and the ever-prevalent issue of greenwashing...
UK online fashion retailer Asos is to invest GBP14m (US$19.07m) in a new tech hub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in a move that will create 184 new jobs over the next three years.
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November, Just Style’s editor Laura Husband hosted a panel with the apparel industry on the challenges and opportunities for tackling climate change right now.
Boohoo Group has published its international factory list detailing 1,100 factories following an extensive period of mapping and auditing which initially began in 2020.
| Indicator | Count |
|---|---|
| Company filings mentions | 13 (−8▼) |
| Jobs | 8,648 (+5,164▲) |
Ralph Lauren Corporation has become the latest to join Global Fashion Agenda’s Strategic Partner Group, supporting its mission to prioritise sustainability in fashion.
The Cambodian government has increased the minimum wage for its textile, garment and footwear workers to $194 a month - a hike of $2 that is effective from January next year.
A new supply chain programme has launched in the US offering training in a critical, growing area for retailers.
Merchant Bay, a Dhaka-based readymade garment startup, has raised US$260,000 in pre-seed funding to help with a digitisation project for the sector.
Concept: Japan-based outsourcing company transcosmos has unveiled a package service that comprises a chatbot and...
Concept: Estonian startup Sentinel has released a solution to detect fake media content on the...
Concept: Researchers at the Institut Mines-Télécom Atlantique in Nantes, France, Tohoku University in Japan, and...
Concept: California’s industrial automation solution provider startup OSARA has developed an AI-equipped software that enables...
Concept: British connectivity solution provider startup FloLive has built cloud-based software-defined connectivity (SDC) solution floNET....
Concept: Israeli centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform provider Upstream Security (Upstream) has launched ‘C4’ (centralized...
Concept: British claims management company WNS Assistance has partnered with insurtech startup and motor managing general...
Concept: A research team from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) has developed...
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