EU amends criteria for using Ecolabel on textile products

The validity of the Ecolabel requirements for textile products has been extended to 78 months. The criteria were due to expire in June 2018.Under the EU Ecolabel voluntary scheme, companies can label their products as having a lower environmental impact than other products within the same group. In the textile sector, the Ecolabel can be awarded to all sorts of products made of textiles, includ…

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Avon doubles down on anti-animal testing stance with new HSI allegiance

The beauty giant, which stopped the practice 30 years ago, has announced that it is backing animal rights organization The Humane Society International’s #BeCrueltyFree campaign. The initiative is pushing for legislative reform to ban cosmetics testing on animals by the year 2023 in major beauty markets around the world.”We’re confident that through collaborations with HSI and other committed p…

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U.S. retailers’ halting outlook reveals scale of tariff fear

Instead, new tariffs President Donald Trump slapped on some Chinese imports last month and fears that more could come in the escalating trade conflict between Washington and Beijing, had many investors bailing from the sector.The tensions have hovered as a potential risk for markets for more than two years. But what really unsettled investors in the latest round of earnings calls was retailers …

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Tinker, tailor, robot maker- In China, trade war threat casts long shadow

The U.S. tariffs could go into effect in June following the completion of a 60-day consultation period. China has threatened retaliation in equal measure, including tariffs on major U.S. exports like soybeans and aircraft.EXPANSION PLANS

Some business leaders are already seeing tangible impacts and are shifting sales elsewhere or scrapping factory expansion plans as U.S. orders drop. Othe…

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Under Armour to discontinue record apparel partnership with UCLA

The University of California, Los Angeles promised to fight the move.The Baltimore-based company said in an emailed statement that it made the decision to terminate the agreement with UCLA – a member of the Pac-12 athletics conference – because “we have been paying for marketing benefits that we have not received for an extended time period.”คำพูดจาก Read more

UK shoppers to cut Christmas spending

Data compiled by IHS Markit for Visa has shown that rising inflation and a slowdown in wage growth have left shoppers with less money to spendคำพูดจาก Game Casino. This is likely to cause a 0.1% fall in consumer spending during the festive period compared to last year, when spending grew 2.8%.“While i…

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