Threadflip, the fashion marketplace for women to refresh their closets, announced it received $13 million in Series B funding to double down on its rapidly growing Concierge Full Service business model. Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) ...
Tags: Threadflip, Service, Textile
In view of the western sanctions against Russia, the President Putin signed a decree on 6th, will perform a ban for imports of western agricultural and food products for one-year. On 7th, the prime minister Medvedev announced specific and ...
Tags: Agricultural, Food, Economy
Core Solutions, a leading provider of global sourcing and extended supply chain automation solutions for the retail industry, announced that it has signed an agreement with Berkshire Blanket Inc. to implement CORE’s CBX software as ...
Tags: Core Solutions, CBX, Textile
UNIQLO announces that it will launch more Ultra Light Down (ULD) styles for fall winter 2014 than last season and offer ULD at all of its stores worldwide. Within the ULD range, Compact Down has proven extremely popular since its debut ...
Inkcups Now welcomes Karen Harris to the ICN family. Karen joins the finance organization of Inkcups Now as the new Manager of Finance. Karen brings with her over 25 years of accounting leadership experience. In the past, Karen has worked ...
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projections for 2014 indicate that the global cotton crop is forecast at 116.4 million bales, about 2 percent below the 2013 estimate of 118.3 million bales. While below a year ago, world ...
Tags: USDA, Global Cotton Crop, Apparel, Accessories
Brazil’s crude steel production fell 4.9 percent in June, year-on-year, to 2.6 million metric tons (mt), the country’s steel institute (IABr) said. “We’re seeing the portrait of what was being drawn during the ...
Tags: Brazil, crude steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
For week from 14th to 18th July, China cotton plants nationwide were in flowering period. The abundant sunlight in Northwest, Huabei and Huanghuai regions was good for cotton growth. The high temperature and drought in parts of Henan ...
Tags: China Cotton Price, Declines, Textile
Global crude steel production in June this year increased by 3.1 percent year on year to 137.122 million metric tons, while a 2.88 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending July 19, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,893,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 78.7 percent. Production was 1,852,000 net tons in the ...
Tags: US, Raw Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the Cotton Incorporated Lifestyle Monitor Survey, which has monitored consumer shopping habits and preferences for two decades, 62% of consumers agree that cotton clothing tends to be of better quality than apparel made from ...
Tags: Cotton, Manmade Fibers, Textile
The steel trade balance in Mexico grew in the last 10 years by 150 percent, according to a report issued this week from the National Chamber of the Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO. Foreign trade of steel has a deficit, according to the ...
Tags: Steel, Iron, Steel Industry
Mexico’s chamber of foreign trade has extended anti-dumping measures on welded steel link chain imports from China, local media reported this week. According to reports, the country’s ministry of economy will continue imposing ...
Tags: Anti-dumping, Foreign Trade, Mineral
On July 28, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in mid-July (July 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all CISA members - totaled ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q3 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), following annual growth of three percent in the first quarter of the current year, steel ...
Tags: steel, EU, Metallurgy, Mineral