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AN INDIAN clothing supplier to international brands has told just-style of the challenges it faces as it starts to emerge from the near complete lockdown that prevented work being completed on summer collections. On May 4, several state governments allowed local clothing manufacturers to restart work until May 17, when fresh guidance is anticipated from the central government and states.…

THE COVID-19 pandemic has proved a mixed blessing for Hong Kong-based garment supplier Esquel. While export earnings have plummeted, Esquel has pivoted by adding non-medical use face masks to its product line, which it will sell under the company’s own label Determinant – boosting its profile.…

THE COVID-19 pandemic will not just threaten business failure for many clothing brands and manufacturers, it may herald the end of the current high production, fast fashion model and result in fewer, smaller collections from more sustainable supply chains, experts have told just-style.…

With many brands and manufacturers unable to visit factories due to travel bans and lockdowns during the Covid-19 crisis, experts have told just-style that there are numerous ways they can still proceed with responsible sourcing, using trusted local representatives. Hervé Ostrowski, chief operating officer at Hong Kong-based supply chain compliance solutions provider QIMA, advised that “brands must have reliable boots on the ground…who can still carry out onsite audits when possible.”…

COURT documents unsealed yesterday (May 28) containing indictments by a grand jury for the US District of Columbia district court detail an international web of financial deception laundering more than USD2.5 billion towards North Korea, including payments specifically earmarked for the country’s nuclear weapons programme.…

USE of the so-called ‘wonder material’ graphene in the energy sector is growing fast, with its thin sheets of carbon atoms in a honeycomb shape, stronger than diamond yet flexible, offering excellent thermal and electronic conductive properties. Given it also offers an extremely high surface to material ratio, graphene energy storage and capture uses are being developed to make batteries, supercapacitors, and solar panels.…

Malaysia’s digital textile printing industry and market is growing at a steadfast pace, with local demand driven by regional designers and fashion brands, particularly when producing Islamic wear, such as scarfs and shawls.

However, the industry faces challenges securing enough orders to fully utilise its capacity.…

IT is fair to say that cheese and other processed dairy products have not traditionally played a key role in tickling the Kenyan collective palate, but that was yesterday. Now, as the country, east Africa’s economic dynamo, grows a middle class interested in consumer consumption, there has been exponential growing demand for dairy products of all kinds.…

The Covid-19 pandemic has given email fraudsters an opening to increase the effectiveness of their duplicitous communications and sharpen the harm that they cause to companies and individuals receiving these malicious messages.

“All forms of cyber fraud are way up,” said Mason Wilder, senior research specialist at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).…

The European Parliament has called for more money to be allocated to the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) as it signed off the European Union’s (EU) 2018 accounts, in a process known as ‘discharge’ – as the EU’s budgetary authority the parliament is solely responsible for clearing the accounts of the bloc’s institutions and agencies. …