Archive: 2013

Gloria Jeans, Russia’s leading apparel retailer, posted a 50% increase in sales in 2012, compared with 2011, to RUB23. 3bn (US$753m).

Workwear supplier Mascot International is now in the process of building additional manufacturing facilities in Laos.

Adidas has agreed to compensate 2,800 Indonesian clothing workers owed US$1. 8m in severance pay following the closure of the Kizone sportswear factory.

A factory where a shelter collapsed last month injuring 23 people was making clothing for Swedish fashion retailer H&M without its knowledge, the company has...

The Philippines’ silk industry needs capital and government support in terms of promotion to take advantage of the huge global market, a government official said.

There is something enigmatic about the high worker turnover that is typical for the Lao clothing industry (on average 40-60% annually).

Greenpeace International investigations have revealed the dumping of industrial wastewater containing toxic and hazardous chemicals, and caustic water, directly into the Citarum River, West Java,...

Last year, Serbian knitting factory Trikotaza Ivkovic recorded a 30% growth in business, opened a company in the US, started exporting to the UK, Denmark...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to design and implement a set of measures aimed at stimulating domestic production of linen, cotton, wool...

Turkish company Altinmarka is the new owner of the wool processing factory in Parvomay, which was acquired for BGN9. 3m (US$6. 1m).