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
Italian biopolymer producer API and packaging machinery manufacturer Sacmi have joined forces to develop a new 100% biodegradable mineral water bottle cap. According to API, the compostable cap has been made from a compound belonging to ...
Tags: Water Bottle Cap, Packaging, Printing
Sport Chalet, Inc., a specialty sporting goods retailer, announced that the new Fall/Winter Reebok CrossFit collection, which includes apparel, footwear and accessories for both men and women, is available for purchase in stores and online, ...
Tags: Reebok, Crossfit Collection
The FabricLink Network (FLN), focused on some of the most interesting “smart” trends and technologies in textiles, is proud to help introduce this year’s inaugural Industrial Design Center at Summer Market. This opening ...
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 ...
Sealy adds gel latex to its Optimum specialty sleep line. ARCHDALE, N.C. - Bedding major Sealy is seeking to optimize its specialty sleep business with the introduction of a new gel latex line under its Optimum by Sealy Posturepedic ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, bed
Total retail search volumes grew 15% in the second quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. Search volumes on tablet devices outpaced those on any other device, increasing 132% compared with growth on smartphone ...
Planet Fashion Grande is a unit of Planet Fashion a retail initiative of Madura Fashion & Lifestyle. Since its launch in 2011 in Bangalore, Planet Fashion Grande has proven to be a successful business model and has now opened its third ...
Tags: Planet Fashion, Apparel
Darn Tough Vermont, American manufacturer of the only premium, performance socks with an unconditional lifetime guarantee, reports that Q2 2013 sales and profitability were the best ever for the second quarter in its, and parent Cabot ...
Tags: Q2 Topline, Apparel
MANGO, Spain's most international fashion brand, is putting its MANGO KIDS collection on sale tomorrow at the brand's online store. The collection will also be available at selected stores from early August. The new line of children's ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, children's clothing
Prada opens its first freestanding store in Osaka, Japan, in the upscale Shinsaibashi district. The store, designed by architect Roberto Baciocchi, offers the men's and women's ready-to-wear, leather goods, accessories and footwear ...
Tags: Prada, First Freestanding Store
In June 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,882.7 billion yuan, up by 13.3 percent year-on-year (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 11.7 percent. The follows are nominal growth rates if there’s no ...
Tags: Total Retail Sales, Consumer Goods
JDA Software Group, The Supply Chain Company, announced that Mulberry Group plc, the English luxury brand, selected JDA Demand and JDA Fulfillment in the first quarter of 2013 and will deploy the solutions using JDA’s Cloud Services ...
Tags: JDA, Mulberry, Supply Chain
Sportlifestyle company PUMA has appointed Torsten Hochstetter (46) as Global Creative Director, effective 15 July 2013. Based in Herzogenaurach, Hochstetter will be responsible for designing, creating and developing the Sport Performance ...
Tags: Sportlifestyle, PUMA
The Buckle, Inc. announced that comparable store net sales, for stores open at least one year, for the five-week period ended July 6, 2013 increased 3.4 percent from comparable store net sales for the five-week period ended July 7, 2012. ...