The European Commission(EC)and datacentre industry consortium The Green Grid are collaborating on policies to improve efficiency in datacentres. Non-profit industry lobby group The Green Grid includes datacentre users,policy ...
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The Ohio State University announced that J.America and Fanatics,Inc.have been named the university's licensed apparel and retail partners.This is a result of a rigorous selection process requiring demonstrated commitment to both Ohio-based ...
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Helena Helmersson,Head of Sustainability of Hennes&Mauritz AB(H&M)has elaborated little bit on the issue of wages in the textile industry.As most other fashion brands,we don´t own the factories.Instead we buy garments from ...
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Can you imagine,around 35 representatives from the most well-known worldwide apparel brands and retailers sitting on the same side of the table in the Indian textile hub of Coimbatore?On the other side of the table were leaders of the South ...
Tags: apparel brands, employees, textile, Indian textile hub of Coimbatore
Mr. Richard Howitt MEP, European Parliament Rapporteur, on Corporate Social Responsibility took an overview of Government sponsored programme- DISHA, run by Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). Driving Industry towards Sustainable Human ...
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In a letter written to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister, Dr. A Sakthivel Chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), has requested Government to increase the share of domestic sourcing in FDI ...
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The Clean Clothes Campaign expresses their shock and outrage at the failure of German company KIK to ensure that workers in its supplier factories are employed in safe working conditions after it was confirmed that Ali Enterprises, which ...
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Virgin Media, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere are refusing to sign up to a new code of conduct for internet service providers (ISPs) aimed at guaranteeing full and open access to the internet. Ten ISPs, including BT, O2 and Talk Talk, ...
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Google and Amazon pay for faster connections Lack of transparency over traffic management EC could force net neutrality issue Consumers need to know about net management The questions of how to handle the growing amount of traffic on ...
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On 30 April 2012 the Ikea group repeated calready made in August 2011,in which employment of political prisoners in the production is most strongly condemned.In August the programme WDR Markencheck reported that in the 1970s and 1980s Ikea ...
At its annual general meeting on 9 March 2012 in Madrid, AIEM, the Spanish timber importers and timber industry, association voted unanimously in favour of the revised code of conduct for the import of wood products. AEIM has thereby ...
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Today representatives from the European Commission visited SKF's facilities in Gothenburg, Sweden and Schweinfurt, Germany to gather information about possible anti-competitive behaviors among certain bearing manufacturers. SKF has a strict ...
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ASLEC and HEMSA have agreed to merge and form a new organisation called the Highway Electrical Association(HEA). The two organisations,which represent highway electrical contractors and lighting manufacturers in the sector,said the ...