UK's leading international fashion retailer, Karen Millen, has deployed the omnichannel supply chain solution, Merret, by Retail Assist, a leading retail IT solutions and services Company providing UK and international retailers with ...
Tags: tailoring, coats, eveningwear, women's clothing, Karen Millen
According to recent projections compiled before the recent China stock exchange meltdown, Chinese grocery had been set to grow by a third between now and 2020 and reach US$1.5tn per year, according to the UK’s Institute of Grocery ...
Tags: grocery market, smartphones
In the busy shopping area of Solana in Beijing's Chaoyang district, young women and men dressed in the latest fashion wander around the mix of foreign clothing stores carrying their latest purchases. In this trendy commercial landscape, ...
Tags: H&M, GAP, Apparel Brands
Foot Locker Inc. reported net income for the company's second quarter ended August 1, 2015 was $119 million, or 84 cents per share, compared with net income of $92 million, or 63 cents per share, last year, a 33 percent increase on a ...
Tags: Foot Locker, athletic industry
Companies opt to relocate plants to Southeast Asia to cut labor costs, reports Lyu Chang. The label of "made in China", which was synonymous with the global solar industry, is in danger of fading out as a growing number of firms move ...
Tags: solar industry, silicon cells, solar panel
India’s apparel industry is continuing its upward growth curve with the overall index value recording 6.2 points, according to The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India’s (CMAI) Apparel Index for April-June 2015. Much like ...
Tags: apparel industry, Clothing
Apparel and home textiles marketer Ralph Lauren is launching its innovative PoloTech smartshirt, which it called a seamless blend of sleek, modern style with real-time biometric technology. A Ralph Lauren press release informed that the ...
Tags: Apparel, home textiles, smartshirt
For the second fiscal quarter of 2016 ended August 1, 2015, net sales at apparel marketer Gap Inc went down 2 per cent impacted by translation of net sales in foreign currencies into US dollars. For the three months to August 1, 2015 Gap ...
Tags: foreign exchange, Gap, Currency Impact
Oiselle, the women’s athletic apparel company, signed on to become the official apparel of the Yale Women’s Cross Country and Track and Field programs starting in Fall 2015. This marks Oiselle’s first and only university ...
Lear Corporation, a global supplier of automotive seating and electrical distribution systems, has announced that it has acquired intellectual property and technology from Autonet Mobile, a Santa Rosa, California-based developer of software ...
Pantone said it sourced the 210 colors it added to its palette by leveraging international trend-spotting along with consumer and client color research it conducted. Pantone has added 210 colors to its fashion, home and interiors color ...
Tags: arts, crafts, Pantone's color system
Two American entities - Liberty Interactive Corporation and zulily, inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Liberty Interactive will acquire all outstanding shares of zulily for $18.75 per share. ...
Tags: apparel, Liberty Interactive Corporation, company acquisition
The short-term outlook for biomaterials in coatings and related sectors in Europe has been looking grim in the wake of the fall in the oil price. However companies along the biomaterials value chain in the region are not overtly concerned. ...
Tags: biomaterials, coatings
“It is only a matter of time before white LEDs using blue LED chips will disappear from the market,” said Shuji Nakamura at a forum on GaN technology in July organized by Nikkei Asian Review. The comment from the inventor of ...
Tags: LED chip, Blue LED, Purple LEDs
Trading improved in the final quarter of ScS' financial year, resulting in total like-for-like order intake for the 26 weeks to 25th July 2015 being up 1.4% on last year, reports ScS in its latest trading update. Total like-for-like sales ...
Tags: trading upgrade