E-searches for beauty, fashion are rising, cosmetics sector could see fast recovery
Reboot Online Marketing Agency has analysed recent Google Trends data and found that rising searches for cosmetics make beauty one of the sectors most likely to recover…
FIT names first cohort of Social Justice Scholars
Launched in December 2021, the Social Justice Scholars Program is a first-of-its-kind higher education initiative established to increase opportunity and accelerate social equity within the creative industries…
Nivea parent Beiersdorf switches to green power
“All Beiersdorf sites worldwide have switched to electricity from renewable sources as of 2019,” the company said in a statement.The move is part of an effort to…
Shift in consumer behaviour impacts retail sector
Rise in incomes of consumers, their younger profiles and growing access to the internet are identified as the driving forces for this shift by the FICCI-PwC report,…
Robert Buchbauer announces new sustainability goals for Swarovski
“More than ever, it is important that we take stock of our business’s place in society and evaluate the contribution we make to it. We cannot return…
Take teen girls off night shift, Indian factories told
Workers aged 16-19 will also be allowed to take time off during their periods and no one will be made to work more than nine hours under…
Tillman’s Ethical Fashion Group links with textiles-to-fuels recycler
And together, EFG and HUI will provide a “ground-breaking Fashion Pollution Solution” to clothing manufacturers and suppliers.While EFG matches 60,000 fashion businesses in 140 countries with sustainable suppliers around…
UK government launches scheme to help high street supply chains
The new funding announced by international development secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan includes investment from UK businesses to keep vulnerable workers in their supply chains in safe and secure…
Suppliers file to push La Senza into bankruptcy
A first petition was filed in Delaware by MGF Sourcing US and two other La Senza suppliers on January 24, 2020. The document claims that MGF, which is…
UK businesses slip into deepest downturn since 2016
The first “flash” early reading of the IHS Markit/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers’ Indexes (PMI) for Britain showed on Friday that the decline in both the services and…