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September 2007 |
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Turkish Textile
Workers To Strike
Workers at 17 textile and garment factories are
due to go on strike after pay talks between a labor union and employers'
association broke down earlier in August.
Thailand Inventors
Build in Vietnam
Investors from Thailand
are building textile, apparel and footwear plants in Vietnam, as
they try to offset political instability and a currency crisis in
their own country.
Bangladeshi Factory Fire
A fire at a Bangladeshi
garment factory has gutted facilities and destroyed clothing
manufactured by Reach Fashion Ltd..
Vietnam
Asked to Reinstate Monitoring
System
Buyers from companies
including Adidas, Ann Taylor, Liz Claiborne and Kohl's are calling
on the Vietnamese government to reinstate the export monitoring
system..
Rising Rupee Could
Cost
570,000 Jobs
The appreciation of the
Indian rupee could lead to the loss of around 570,000 textile
industry jobs this year..
Pakistan Textile
Workers
Protest
Textile workers in
Pakistan have staged protests calling on their employers to
introduce the 15% salary rise set out by the government in its
Federal Budget in June this year..
VF Acquires
Lucy Activewear
VF Corporation has completed
its US$110m acquisition of Lucy Activewear..
Wild Orchid
Made UK Debut
Russia's largest
lingerie retailer, the Wild Orchid group, made its UK debut in
August with a new store at the Bluewater shopping center in Kent.
Kika Villareal Debuts at
Lingerie Americas
Katherina Bastidas-Ansink didn’t seem to “fit” into much of
the intimate apparel out there. She reasoned that if her voluptuous,
5’2”, Latin frame..
Woolworths' Risky
Panty Policy
Woolworths apparently
allows customers to try on panties in the fitting room and even
return them if they are ill-fitting.
Klum to
Represent Jordache
Jordache's latest
advertising campaign will feature supermodel Heidi Klum..
Forensic
Scientist Fired Over
Private Test
A Michigan forensics scientist
who said she tested her husband's underwear for DNA to determine whether
he was unfaithful has been fired.
Bra to Detect Breast Cancer
A
smart bra to detect the early stages of breast cancer is being developed
by scientists at the University of Bolton.
Formaldehyde
Scare Dismissed
To the delight
of lingerie lovers everywhere, Stella McCartney is putting her
stamp on a range of underwear.
Woolworths Changes
Panty
Return Policy
Woolworths has backed down on
its policy of allowing customers to return underwear they have tried
on.
Cleavage Cushion Debuts
at Lingerie Americas, by Luis Paredes
Kush, a bedtime
cleavage cushion, made its debut at Lingerie Americas..
Hanesbrands
Buys Plant in El
Salvador
Underwear and hosiery maker
Hanesbrands bought a textile manufacturing plant in El Salvador from
Industria Duraflex.
So-long-thong! Bye-bye Briefs! by Dorothy S. Wilson
Twice a year,
Lingerie America holds an intimate apparel exhibition,
encompassing more than 270 brands..
Size Zero Model
Banned From
Catwalk
A top size-zero
model has been banned from British catwalks because she is too
thin.
August 2007 Retailers'
Sales Review
Wilsons The Leather Experts
reported sales of $16.3m for the month, as compared to $15.8m for
the four weeks ended August 26, 2006.
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