Shanghai's market watchdog announced Monday that some batches of products produced by leading foreign fashion brands, including H&M, FOREVER 21, American Apparel, Diesel and Lacoste, failed in the city's latest quality tests. According to ...
Tags: Apparel Brands, quality tests
The International OEKO-TEX Association’s Dr. Sam Moore, who represents OEKO-TEX in North America, will present a webinar introducing the new OEKO-TEX STeP certification system for sustainable textile production facilities on Tuesday, ...
Tags: Step Certification, OEKO-TEX
Leading UHF Gen2 radio frequency identification (RFID) technology provider Impinj, announced that retailer American Apparel is significantly improving inventory accuracy and on-shelf availability with a fully automated Senitron inventory ...
Tags: American Apparel
The AAPN Board of Directors approved a change to its name to better reflect the reality of both the industry itself and its network specifically. The change is subtle, one letter in fact. It is now the Americas Apparel Producers’ ...
Tags: Focus on Americas, AAPN
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) today welcomed the introduction of the U.S. Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013 (H.R. 2708), legislation that would reinstate recently expired tariff suspensions on ...
Tags: US Workers, Trade Legislation
Under Armour, announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Net revenues increased 23% in the second quarter of 2013 to $455 million compared with net revenues of $369 million in the prior year's period. Net ...
American Apparel, a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of branded fashion, announced preliminary sales for the month ended June 30, 2013. On a preliminary basis, total net sales for June 2013 were $55.9 million, ...
Tags: American Apparel, branded fashion
The US apparel retailers Walmart and Gap are aiming at improving the safety standards of the readymade garment (RMG) factories in Bangladesh by implementing new safety proposals in their stakeholder factories. Although Walmart and Gap ...
The entrepreneurs from Peruvian Gamarra commercial garment market have successfully discussed collaboration plans with representatives of major American apparel stores during their recent visit to the US. As part of the first ...
Tags: Apparel&Accessories, Peru, US
As the US Senate has passed the Marketplace Fairness Act on e-commerce retailers earlier this month, the brick and mortar apparel retailers are expecting a relief from the increasing competition with online retailers since the act will ...
Tags: Sales Tax, Apparel Businesses
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed the introduction of the Generalized System of Preferences Update for Production Diversification and Trade Enhancement Act (GSP UPDATE Act), legislation that would make U.S. imports ...
Tags: Apparel&Footwear, GSP Update Bill
American Apparel, the vertically integrated clothing manufacturer based in downtown Los Angeles, has announced an exclusive partnership with LAB CONCEPT, a contemporary lifestyle retailer in Queensway, to bring the brand to the Admiralty ...
Tags: Apparel, Apparel Industry
The North American Bangladesh Worker Safety Working Group, a collaboration of six leading U.S. and Canadian apparel and retail trade associations, sent a letter to the Prime Minster of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina Wazed regarding the serious ...
American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) President and CEO Kevin M. Burke released the following statement after a meeting to discuss worker safety in Bangladesh with several Bangladesh government officials, including Foreign Minister ...
A new study commissioned by the National Retail Federation and other trade associations shows that imported merchandise has considerably lowered the price of consumer goods for American families while creating millions of jobs for American ...
Tags: Textile World, Textile