Downtown-based PPG Industries is sitting on about $2 billion in cash as it goes into the fourth quarter, which is usually a cash-generating quarter, said Chairman and CEO Charles Bunch, and how the coatings and specialty materials company ...
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A documentary revealing the miserable conditions faced by Cambodian factory workers producing goods for the fashion retailer H&M was aired on Swedish national television last night. Campaigners and the media are calling on H&M to respond to ...
Tags: H&M, fashion retailer, cloth, cheap clothing, slave wages
Anglo American plc("Anglo American")announces that Cynthia Carroll has decided to step down as Chief Executive,with the Board's agreement.Cynthia will remain in her post until a successor has been appointed and an appropriate transition has ...
Tags: Anglo American, Cynthia Carroll, global financial crisis
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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Victoria and Albert Museum(V&A)celebrates the most beloved characters in the history of Hollywood and the'silver screen'in an exhibition called''Hollywood Costume',which opens on October 20,2012 and runs until January 27,2013. Costume ...
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The store features Nike do Brazil's key categories: Football (soccer), Running, Sportswear and Action Sports, in the brand´s first such store in Latin America. There are only 15 similar spaces in the world, located in key cities in ...
What sustainability means in the cotton value chain can't be determined by any individual, sector or nation. Rather, it should be defined by finding the common ground that exists among all of the stakeholders. That was the guiding concept ...
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The Garment Sector Roundtable(GSR)was launched in January 2011 to bring together multiple garment industry stakeholders in Bangalore,including multi-national brands,domestic manufacturers,industry associations,trade unions and research ...
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Calvin Klein Underwear(CKU),a division of The Warnaco Group Inc and Calvin Klein Inc,a wholly owned subsidiary of PVH Corp,announced that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Calvin Klein Underwear brand. Since its introduction as ...
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Gap Inc announced a significant initiative to improve building and fire safety standards across the company's approved third-party garment manufacturing factories in Bangladesh.Underscoring the tangible steps taken in the country over the ...
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The European Container Glass industry in Europe is an important contributor to the European economy and produces high quality container glass products for a global market.Europe is the biggest producer of container glass in the world.Glass ...
Under the headline Water and Innovation,Solutions for Development The German Experience a delegation from German Water Partnership deepened the expert dialogue that had started in an earlier visit in 2011. Dieter Ernst,Board Member of ...
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U.S. cotton industry leaders visited with the Turkish cotton industry on September 7-13 to convey the U.S. cotton industry's continued commitment to timely delivery of high quality cotton to that important customer. The Cotton Council ...
Tags: cotton industry, continued commitment, important customer, CCI
AIXTRON SE announced that more than 200 participants,mostly manufacturing customers,attended its MOCVD seminar for LED production held at the AIXTRON China Ltd.Training Center&Lab in Suzhou,China. The seminar was co-organized by the China ...
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Public anxiety over data sharing is in danger of becoming of a major issue of the information age, and businesses and government need to act in order to reduce fears. That's according to The Data Dialogue, a newly launched report from ...
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