Carton H Speed

America (still) has no industrial policy

...rana.foroohar@ft.com Letter in response to this column: How American industrial policy can avoid corporate capture / From Benjamin H Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs,...

March 18, 2024

PDD Holdings

China’s Temu grabs suppliers ditched by rival Shein over factory standards

...Shein touts its “long-term relationship” with its network of garment manufacturers as one of its competitive advantages over fast-fashion rivals such as Zara and H&M, forging those ties by paying quicker...

February 13, 2024

FT Live

Business of Luxury Summit

Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year

LexPersonal & Household Goods

Viral TikTok fashion trends pose new threat to fast fashion’s leaders Premium

...But the legal attacks owe as much to the unexpected speed at which the Chinese industry can capitalise on the latest TikTok trends....

February 7, 2024

Xiaomi Corp

China’s smartphone maker Xiaomi bets on EVs even as Apple pivots

...The SU7 has a range of up to 830km on a single charge, a top speed of 265 km/h and a zero-to-100km/h acceleration time of 2.78 seconds, which Counterpoint Research smartphone analyst Ivan Lam attributed...

March 29, 2024

InterviewSpace exploration

UN space tsar calls for increase in junk clean-up efforts

...Nasa estimates roughly 9,000 tonnes of debris are orbiting the earth at speeds of up to 25,000km/h — old rocket bodies, defunct satellites, or fragments from exploded engines....

January 8, 2024

Global InsightLeo Lewis

Japan’s super train needs democratic force

...There has been scoffing and inevitable questions about the need for such outrageous speed in a country that is, by pressure of demographics, simultaneously shrinking and slowing down....

April 9, 2024

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

Inside BusinessSilvia Sciorilli Borrelli

The threat to the Italian heritage in car manufacturing

...The minicar, with a maximum speed of 45km/h, does not require a driver’s licence and sells for €9,800 and upward....

February 29, 2024

The Big Read

Can Europe’s trains compete with low-cost airlines?

...of 160km/h....

March 7, 2024

The Week Ahead

UK party conference season begins while Spain wrestles with coalition plans

...That has certainly been the case for retailing behemoth H&M, which discloses third-quarter figures on Wednesday....

September 24, 2023

Fashion

The trouble with children’s clothing

...Even if her lightning-speed growth meant that she wouldn’t fit into her clothes and shoes within a year, they were cheap and easily replaceable....

April 3, 2024

Moral Money

Can seaweed stop us ingesting microplastics? Premium

...Apparel giant H&M was among Renewcell’s investors, as the FT reported back in 2019....

February 28, 2024

ExplainerNuclear proliferation

How could nuclear weapons be used in space?

...It has deployed the hypersonic Kinzhal missile in Ukraine, a strategic “super weapon” whose speed was supposed to make it hard to shoot down — but Ukrainian air defences have regularly managed to intercept...

February 25, 2024

Serious MoneyClaer Barrett

Even the posh are turning to pawnbrokers

...Costly, perhaps, but the real attractions for the well-off are speed and discretion....

February 5, 2024

ReviewDance

Paul Taylor dance company, New York — poetic dramas

...Its recent fortnight season at Lincoln Center’s opera-house-size David H Koch Theater (October 31-November 12) was well attended and an important opportunity to observe the Taylor legacy....

November 23, 2023

US inflation

Powell says US inflation battle not over but defends ‘prudent’ pause

...“The level to which we raise rates is actually a separate question than the speed with which we move,” he said. “Earlier in the process, speed was very important. It is not very important now.”...

June 21, 2023

FT Live

Financial Times @COP

FT Live events coinciding with COP

ReviewMusic

EFG London Jazz Festival — a resounding finale with tributes to Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis

...Pianist Aaron Diehl conjured past piano greats at lightning speed and repositioned them into his own vivid train of thought....

November 21, 2023

Letter

Letter: SUVs are one thing, but regular city cars kill too

...Having said all this, a regular city car weighs more than a tonne and is also likely to kill a child in a collision at 50km/h — the speed limit in most European cities....

April 7, 2023

US banks

Unpicking the US deposit insurance debate

...Some were akin to reducing the speed limit for loaded trucks from 98 miles per hour to 95 miles per hour without even measuring the speed properly. Politicians and regulators are failing us....

May 17, 2023

LexShein

Shein/Temu: ultra-fast fashion lacks durability for investors too Premium

...The duo’s rapid success means they are becoming a threat online to Inditex and H&M, which also operate extensive store estates....

July 19, 2023

Martin Wolf

How to finance a faster shift to a better world

...Above all, only thus can lending be multiplied in scale and speed. The report recommends “country platforms”, to co-ordinate increased national and external financing....

October 17, 2023

House & Home

Is the UK housing market really in recovery?

...The speed and size of interest rate cuts this year are still unclear....

February 16, 2024

UnhedgedRobert Armstrong

The Fed: no secrets, no promises Premium

...Even where it has a monopoly or duopoly position in ride-hailing, it is not clear that its service has clear cost/speed/comfort/convenience advantages over alternatives such as bicycles, buses, subways and...

May 4, 2023

News in-depthBT Group Plc

Allison Kirkby, the Glaswegian telecoms turnaround expert taking over BT

...Jansen, who joined BT from outside the industry in 2019, has set in motion plans to invest £12bn to push high-speed broadband out to 25mn homes by 2026....

August 1, 2023

News in-depthRetail sector

How the Zara juggernaut crashed the wedding party

...Although Inditex does not like to expand at breakneck speed, García Maceiras said it was capitalising on an unexpected consequence of Covid-19....

June 23, 2023

The Big Read

Eurostar in recovery: is there light at the end of the tunnel?

...The early days of the cross-Channel service were also marred by delays in the provision of track where their trains could reach their 300km/h top speeds....

July 5, 2023

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