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...Back then, the White House convened Nike and other apparel giants to get them to start dealing with exploitation and establish standards that led to some improvement....
...Still, spending remained robust when compared to last year, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse data that estimated retail sales excluding autos climbed 7.2 per cent last month with strong demand for apparel...
...Investors had known “that jewellery and apparel were big markets where women spend money, and you could invest in them and make money”, he says....
...In the UK, healthcare workers have complained about a lack of protective equipment....
...The mews is a trove of top-quality new and vintage apparel and retro riding kit....
...According to 2017 data, textile and apparel manufacturing employs 109,000 (excluding the self-employed), and produces £9.1bn of products....
...The Covid-19 crisis prompted the business overnight to think about the growing popularity of casual wear — and not before time, said Wheeler....
...Pawan Munjal, managing director of motorcycle maker Hero MotoCorp, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of two-wheelers, is optimistic....
...The chairman of the Apparel Export Promotion Council, A Sakthivel, said members were hit by delayed shipments of buttons, interlining and other items from China....
...The Trump administration in recent weeks allowed some tariff exemptions for medical supplies US officials had sought to bolster domestic stockpiles of protective equipment and other goods used to combat...
...As protective face coverings become an essential accessory due to the lingering virus, many companies see selling masks as an opportunity to attract customers and boost their brands....
...During the crisis, all eight of its factories have switched to producing personal protective equipment for Canadian hospitals....
...In California, the company Los Angeles Apparel, founded by former American Apparel head Dov Charney, has turned over factory production to medical supplies, hoping to create 300,000 masks and 50,000 gowns...
...“We’re not going to swing the doors open and go back to what was happening before,” says Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, the travel publisher....
...He is also tracking words people have made up to describe the clothes visible during video calls — “upperware” — or “infits”, as opposed to outfits, for at-home apparel....
...Even fit and healthy Sydney residents, including children, have taken to wearing protective face masks to filter out fine particulates in the smoke that inflame the lungs and irritate eyes and throats....
...For apparel it’s genius but for the rest I don’t see how it works. The margin on everything else is much lower.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Indian government must support the apparel sector / From Rajendra Aneja, Aneja Management Consultants, Mumbai, India...
...Rather than relying on the single trigger of a dead or live attenuated virus, mRNA vaccines might be able to trip a protective response from the immune system that would make neutralising antibodies capable...
...UK housing minister Heather Wheeler said the government want to support short-term lets because they were good for the economy....
...What you’ve been saying Natural climate solutions backed by solid science are available today: letter from Peter Wheeler, London, UK While Martin Wolf’s analysis of the recent report from the Intergovernmental...
...As is evident from all the images in the press and on TV, Mr Southgate is very proud to dress as an Englishman with the correct style of neck apparel....
...And, finally, it is looking like plain sailing from here on for Wood Group’s £2.2bn acquisition of oil services rival Amec Foster Wheeler....
...In India, where Vodafone has thousands of suppliers and a large logistics operation, the company responded five years ago by requiring all staff and contractors on two-wheelers to wear helmets — several...
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