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NEW INDUSTRY 4.0 INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY IS OFFERING CLOTHING SECTOR MAJOR ADVANCES IN EFFIICIENCY AND CREATIVITY
INDUSTRY 4.0 – WHAT IT MEANS AND WHY IT MATTERS FOR FASHION SUPPLY CHAINS
Experts have told just-style of the urgent need for clothing manufacturers to embrace Industry 4.0, to boost productivity and harness creativity. Mark Burstein, president at Florida, USA-based NGC Software, which provides supply chain and PLM solutions to the apparel sector, said that Industry 4.0 would help pull the apparel sector from siloed PLM solutions and isolated assessments of supply chain management: “This is where most of the fashion industry is today,” he explained.…
NEW TRADE ANALYSIS CENTRE TO HELP EU WINE MAKERS COMPETE
The European Commission has launched a new European Union (EU) Wine Market Observatory, an EU-organised body drawing on wine sector expertise to generate and make available market analyses, short-term outlook reports and assessments of medium-term prospects for Europe’s wine sector. A formal launch meeting in Brussels on November 4 was told its goal is to give EU wine makers more insight on potential wine markets and how their competitors are innovating in pricing, production and trade, helping EU winemakers understand and manage market volatility.…
GERMANY IS DOING WELL AS AN INVESTMENT LOCATION BUT COULD DO BETTER
Recent high-profile surveys on the attractiveness of Germany as an investment location paint a conflicting picture, but generally experts agree the country is a good place to invest. Professional services firm EY reported a 13% year-on-year drop in inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) deals in 2018, to 973, while the OECD recorded inbound FDI value January-July 2019 to reach USD22 billion, from just USD 1 billion in the previous semester. …
PAKISTAN DIGITAL TEXTILE MARKET EXPANDING, WITH MUCH MORE GROWTH TO COME
With Pakistan’s digital textile printing industry production growing at an average of at least 5% annually in recent years, according to the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), with the country’s digital textile printing industry being an important focus of investment in a sometimes-troubled textile sector.…
POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS INCREASE GREEN ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT WORLDWIDE
As national, regional and international legislation nudges the world away from its reliance on fossil fuels, corporations are increasingly sourcing renewable energy through the mechanism of green power purchase agreements (PPAs), whereby companies (and also utilities) act as an off-taker, making commitments for future renewable energy payments.…
USA HEMP SUPPLIES COULD INCREASE FOR BEAUTY SECTOR NOW USDA RULES ARE IN PLACE
The USA cosmetics industry is expecting to benefit from recently promulgated United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules that would facilitate increased legal cultivation of the hemp plant – the botanical source for cannabidiol (CBD), an ingredient already widely available in the US for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications.…
HEALTHY COMPETITIVE MARKET FOR BEAUTY PACKAGING SEES INVESTOR CAPITAL DRIVE INCREASING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
A highly competitive market combined with healthy sums of investor capital look set to drive forward an increase in merger/acquisition (M/A) activity in the cosmetic packaging sector, as companies seek to deliver added value to existing customer bases and extend their footprint into new territories, both geographic and product ranges.…
GROUNDBREAKING JAPANESE NANO MASK OFFERS CONSUMERS BETTER SKIN PROTECTION
JAPAN’S Kao Corp has unveiled the first cosmetics product that makes use of its cutting-edge Fine Fibre Technology to moisturise and protect the skin. A Biomimesis Veil product will be added to the cosmetics giant’s Sensai prestige brand in Japan from December 4, with launches in other markets to follow.…
NATURAL AFRICAN LOOKS INCREASE IN PREDOMINANCE AS SUB-SAHARAN BEAUTY MARKETS BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED
Beauty markets in sub-Saharan Africa are becoming more sophisticated, and with this comes an increasing desire by consumers to use cosmetics that better match their own skin and hair characteristics, rather than utilising products that of more universal appeal.
Nigeria’s personal care product industry continues to grow, and given its population is the largest in Africa – now estimated by the United Nations at 200 million – this market inevitably has the most potential in the continent.…
COMPUTER VIRUSES PROLIFERATE, WHILE HACKERS GET SMARTER ABOUT HOW TO TARGET THEIR VICTIMS, EXPERTS WARN
As internet-enabled devices proliferate, there are some 400,000 new malware (malicious software) samples a day being released, according to Paul Ducklin, a principal research scientist at Sophos, a British security software and hardware company.
There are currently more than 7 billion devices connected to the internet, a number forecast to reach 10 billion by 2020, according to Germany-based internet of things consultants IoT Analytics.…