French fashion is getting smarter with the help of fabric woven with micro-sensors that can reveal when someone is weary or unwell. France-based Cityzen Sciences was at the Consumer Electronics Show on Friday with shirts made of "Smart ...
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The Timberland Co. has become the 75th vendor partner of the Grassroots Outdoor Alliance (Grassroots), a buying group of 47 outdoor specialty retailers with about $225 million a year in sales. ADVERTISEMENT The Timberland brand was ...
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Gadget lovers are slipping on fitness bands that track movement and buckling on smartwatches that let them check phone messages. Some brave souls are even donning Google's geeky-looking Glass eyewear. For the technology industry, this ...
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First Insight, Inc., a technology company transforming how leading retailers make new product investment and pricing decisions, announced an extended partnership agreement with The Limited, an iconic fashion retailer that offers ...
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The Stockmann Group’s preliminary revenue amounted to EUR 232.1 million in December 2013. Excluding the terminated franchising operations in Russia and Finland, revenue was down 6.1 per cent on the previous year. Christmas sales were ...
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Lindex lingerie collections for the spring 2014 season show a wide range of fashion news. “We start the season with romantic style collections. The feeling is soft and very feminine, the prints are often Asian inspired with a ...
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With the advent of New Year, the Makati City’s Yuchengco Museum is gearing up to host a special marketplace, featuring an array of Filipino fabrics, fashion and home décor accessories. Dubbed as Habiness!, the textile ...
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It’s been two and a half years. At Expofil, leader exhibition in the yarns and fibres sector, in February of 2011 Saluzzo Yarns (at that time Filature di Miroglio) announced to the world that from that moment on it would move to the ...
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There's a sensor in a bra, in your socks, on your wrist, attached to your chest, in the ears: wearable tech is spreading all over the body. The growing use of embedded wearable devices connected to a smartphone is spawning a massive ...
Despite the hoopla, wearable gadgets like wristwatches for checking your text messages or eyeglasses that capture video are unlikely to make a splash with consumers anytime soon, given the clumsy designs, high prices and technological ...
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The Cato Corporation reported sales for the five weeks ended January 4, 2014 of $100.1 million, a 3% decrease from sales of $103.3 million for the five weeks ended December 29, 2012. Same-store sales for the month decreased 4%. Sales for ...
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The massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES), hosted annually in Las Vegas, showcases the latest discoveries and innovations, including audiovisual, gaming, smartphones, computing, household appliances and in-car technologies. While we see ...
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In the lead up to this year International CES, wearable technology was the major buzzword driving discussions of trends. The show hasn't disappointed, with many brands bringing out new products that blur the lines between fashion, fitness ...
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With a population base of 222 million 0-15-year-old children and 16 million newborns each year, as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, China ranks second as the world’s largest consumer market for babies’ and ...
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Driven by robust sales performance from its clothing fabric business, Japan’s Komatsu Seiren Co. Ltd witnessed a modest rise in its revenue in Q2 FY 2013-14. The fabric manufacturer posted a 4.4 per cent rise in sales at 19,071 ...
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