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Co-operative agreement to improve working conditions in Uzbekistan

Organisations campaigning to improve conditions in the Uzbek textile industry have received a boost with the signing of a two-year memorandum of co-operation that aims...

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Malaysian textile heritage revitalised

A pop-up experiential hub, IKAT (Immersive Knowledge and Textile) 2, was held over two days in Kuala Lumpur in January, aiming to conserve and revitalise...

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French luxury label opens store in Bangkok shopping complex

French luxury fashion brand AMI Paris has launched its first store in Thailand in partnership with local fashion distributor PP Group, betting on the country’s...

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Turkish e-commerce giant to enter Czech market

Turkish fashion company Trendyol, which is owned by Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group, plans to enter the Czech e-commerce market in the first quarter of...

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Lay-offs sweep export-oriented industries in Indonesia

Despite earlier reports of declining unemployment and resilient growth, Indonesia’s economy still took a hit from weaker global demand last year, leading to almost 300,000...

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SSI Group signs joint venture with Prada in the Philippines

SSI Group has formed a joint venture with Prada Group through its subsidiary Stores Specialists, with the luxury retailer looking to expand the Italian firm’s...

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Next stage in Cambodian textile waste project

German development agency GIZ and Global Fashion Agenda have outlined the next steps in their initiative designed to restructure the apparel waste sector in Cambodia...

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Benefits of contracting in BiH for foreign companies

The textile sector is one of the traditional industries in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and one of the main operating models is the so-called “lohn...

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Bulgarian fashion academy’s Golden Pin Awards

As part of the Academy of Fashion’s Golden Pin Awards 2023, the prestigious Designer of the Year award was presented to Radostina Dolapchieva, already a...

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Estonian wool sustainable packaging maker raises €2.5m

Estonian start-up Woola, which makes sustainable packaging from wool, has raised €2. 5m (US$2. 7m) to work on creating protective packaging to replace plastic.

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