It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Katharine Beacham

PRESS RELEASE / Appointment

23 April 2024

4 minutes

M&S has been leading the way with new and exciting products and services since its inception 140 years ago and continues to innovate while never compromising on quality or sourcing and production standards.

Marks & Spencer and Oxfam Launch Free Postal Donation Service

London, U.K.: Marks & Spencer, the UK’s largest clothing retailer is – for the first time – asking the public to donate their unwearable clothing, alongside their wearable clothing, through the trial of a free postal donation service, in partnership with Oxfam.

It is estimated that UK homes contain 1.6 billion items of unworn clothing which have the...

Traceability / Better Cotton

3 November 2023

2 minutes

Better Cotton wants to scale up the availability and sourcing granularity of traceable Better Cotton to serve as the foundation for an Impact Marketplace that would compensate farmers for field-level progress, and enable country-level Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to calculate the environmental impact of Better Cotton in relation to conventional cotton.

Better Cotton Launches Own Traceability Solution for Fashion and Textiles Sectors

The Better Cotton Platform, Better Cotton’s just launched own traceability solution for the fashion and textiles sectors from the ginning stage right through to the retailer or brand, will enable suppliers to log transactional information, culminating in visibility of where the raw material has originated from and how much is within a product.

Staff Writer

Traceability / Indian Cotton

19 April 2023

4 minutes

There are over one million Better Cotton farmers in India, and it is one of the largest producers of Better Cotton globally. However, domestic supply chains are amongst the most complex in the world and are far more fragmented than in other regions.

Better Cotton's Traceability Technologies to Track Indian Cotton’s Journey from Field to Shelf

Better Cotton is piloting innovative traceability technologies through India’s cotton value chain to provide end-to-end visibility. The new traceability framework will allow greater flexibility and visibility of the physical flow of cotton through supply chains as the network grows.