Sourcing Journal
How Will the Gov’t Shutdown Affect Cotton Trading?
While much of the hypothesizing regarding the impact of the government shutdown has narrowly focused on the…
What is APEC and Does It Matter?
What about the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)? Or maybe more pertinently, what precisely is the…
NRF: Enough With the Government Shutdown
The National Retail Federation (NRF) is fed up with the government shutdown and last week, the organization…
Target Lays-Off 150; Plans to Hire Fewer Seasonal Workers for Holidays
Last Wednesday, Target laid off approximately 150 of its employees from the company’s headquarters in…
Breaking News: Bangladesh Factory Manager Taken Hostage By Workers
Hopes that recent concessions by factory owners would quell cascading violence in Bangladesh over a…
New Textiles Technology Defies Belief
It’s not often we find textiles made from tree bark or a fabric production process with a carbon footprint…
September Retail Sales Gloomy; A Bad Sign for Holiday Shopping Season
An ailing retail industry had looked forward to the back-to-school shopping season for a much needed boost in…
ICAC: Improvements & Awareness Vital to Sustaining Cotton Industry
Cotton is getting stiff competition from other fibers and market share continues to declineâ€"if the once…
Not Enough US Workers to Push “Made In US” Initiative
The snowballing emphasis on home-grown products that proudly display a “Made in America†label is running…
UV Clothing is the New Sunscreen
Consumer demand for sun-protective UV clothing has risen with the rate of skin cancer as people become more…
Bangladesh Factories: More Pessimism than Progress
Since the Rana Plaza tragedy, industry players have scrambled to organize alliances and develop sound…
Sears Sells Most Profitable Stores; Realty Its Greatest Asset
Faced with tough choices as a result of chronic underperformance, Sears Holdings Corp. is selling off some of…
Wal-Mart, Bharti India Partnership Over
Wal-Mart has decided to call it quits on its Indian joint venture with Bharti Enterprises citing struggles…
Kyrgyzstan’s Apparel Industry Enjoys Breakneck Growth
Kyrgyzstan, the tiny Central Asian republic of fewer than six million inhabitants, recently reported that its…
Breaking News: Another Bangladesh Factory Engulfed in Flames, Kills 7
On Tuesday, a fire overrun a garment factory in Bangladesh, killing seven and reportedly injuring dozens…