27th June 2018
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How our industry used Rana Plaza to turn Bangladesh from a basket case to a model of ethical development
On April 24, 2013 the Rana Plaza catastrophe made Bangladesh notorious and our industry a pariah. Today – thanks to the way our industry reacted to the catastrophe – Bangladesh has become a beacon for how poor countries can pull themselves out of poverty and transform human rights and gender equality.
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Brexit: why don’t commentators spot the inevitable?
Britain's liberal media claim the country won't go ahead with the "soft" Brexit its government proposed because it's got a "weak" Prime Minister. Our problem isn’t a “weak” Prime Minister: it’s a media bubble without any experience of how the rest of us live.
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UK home improvements chain B&Q announced the near-abolition of its discounts for older people from September 3
Brands push Nicaraguan President to “respect rule of law”
Major clothing and textile brands demand from Nicaragua’s President an end to State “repression”
Philip Green: “life undone by abject greed”
A biography published today of Arcadia owner, Philip Green, describes his life as “ambition undone by abject greed”.
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28th June 2018
New foreign clothing and textiles investment collapses in Vietnam
Foreign textile-related investment in Vietnam has fallen this year to “several” new projects from the 129 projects worth $600 mn approved in 2016. 2017 itself saw a 30% fall in new projects...
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1st June 2018
M&S admit: it’s too fixated on fashion
Announcing its annual results on May 23, Marks & Spencer publicly agreed with what its older customers have been saying for years: it's too fixated with fashion. Slide 9 at...
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