The latest reports from just-style’s research store include a roundup of shifts in sourcing strategies, key challenges for factory safety and auditing, and a report on apparel and footwear in China.
- Management briefing: Sourcing shifts: Changes and challenges
As brands and retailers set higher production standards and create ever more complex supply chains, they need to consider all the risks when switching suppliers. This management briefing also looks at changes in China and other supplier countries, and technology to help track and oversee sourcing shifts.
- Management briefing: Factory safety and auditing: The key challenges
Clothing brands and retailers have ramped up their focus on supplier factory safety over the past 18 months. As well as the challenges of implementing new requirements in Bangladesh, this management briefing looks at similar issues across Asia. We also report on how auditing software can help boost supply chain safety, and the fragmentation of global standards.
- Insect repellent apparel: A novel approach to pest control
This report provides a wealth of information, insight and analysis on the effects of insects on humans, the demand for insect repellent products, and the market for insect repellent apparel. Furthermore, the report provides insight into the advantages, applications and types of insect repellent apparel, insect repellents used to treat apparel, methods of imparting insect repellent properties to garments, efficacy testing and regulations, and an outlook for the future.
- Profile of Craghoppers: A leading supplier of world travel and adventure clothing
Craghoppers, founded in 1965, is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of clothing and accessories for the world travel and adventure markets. It is also a supplier of technically advanced outdoor wear. Over the years since its foundation, Craghoppers has established a reputation for bringing innovative fabric technologies to the outdoor market. The report highlights the company’s development, products, sales and marketing, sponsorships and endorsements, financial performance, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, as well as providing an outlook for the future.
- Performance apparel markets: Product developments and innovations, 1st quarter 2014
This report provides information on the latest developments in: fabrics for performance apparel; flame resistant (FR) protective apparel; insulation products; protective apparel; sportswear; wearable technology; and yarns for performance apparel. It also includes news from some the innovative companies involved with the developments.
- Apparel and footwear in China
This report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data (2009-2013) and analysis by distribution format, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, leading brands, and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market. Forecasts to 2018 illustrate how the market is set to change.
- Apparel and footwear retailing in the digital era (part 1): Exploring innovation
As the internet brings about sweeping changes in apparel and footwear distribution, this briefing pinpoints key innovations in selling fashion online, focusing on the areas of fit and sizing, impulse buying, affordable luxury, curation and personalisation. This report also analyses the performance of fashion-focused online start-ups, as well as the inroads being made regarding omni-channel retailing, as the boundaries between in-store and online shopping become increasingly blurred.
- Footwear in Sweden
Get a detailed picture of Sweden’s footwear market. Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change. Understand the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands. Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.
