Supply Chains

Spearheading the promotion of the textiles & fashion industry of Colombia is ProColombia, under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism. The organisation's expansive mandate includes boosting international tourism, foreign investments and non-traditional exports. Carmen Caballero, ProColombia's President, tells texfash.com how the country is working to ramp up its textiles & fashion industry.

Commodity prices have a direct bearing on farmer incomes, as do the prices that garment manufacturers are willing to pay for raw materials. Tamar Hoek, Senior Policy Director (Sustainable Fashion) at Solidaridad Network, disentangles the threads that make for these intricate relationships.

A report on fast fashion purchasing practices in the European Union paints a grim picture of the tenuous trade relations between brands and manufacturers, with business-to-business power imbalances, giving buyers even more influence in defining terms and conditions than elsewhere. 

In early February, southern Türkiye and northern Syria were devasted by a series of earthquakes, with the most severe reaching 7.8 on the Richter scale. Over 1,600 garment and close to 1,300 textile companies operate in the 11 affected provinces, with a third of the country's apparel and textile workers employed here. As Türkiye's textiles-apparel industry steps out of the ruins, it is in dire need of business.

A survey conducted by the University of Aberdeen and trade justice charity Transform Trade has said that large fashion brands sourcing clothes from Bangladesh for the UK market are allegedly paying below the cost of production.

Amazon has updated its Supply Chain Standards according to which all products sold in the Amazon Stores or products or services provided to Amazon must be manufactured, produced, or provided in accordance with the Standards and all applicable laws. 

ACT's Accountability and Monitoring Framework 2021 report indicates that the industry needs more than bold commitments, and that there is an urgent need for accountability to ensure meaningful industry collaboration. A texfash.com report.

The current level of supply chain transparency in the leather and allied industries is dramatically low. Only 29 of the 100 major companies surveyed provide some information about their supplier base. And no, luxury brands are not frontrunners. A texfash.com report.

Seventeen individual nations and the European Union have decided to cooperate on strengthening supply chains, working to reduce and end near-term disruptions, and building long-term resilience in the backdrop to the shocks to global supply chains from pandemics, wars and conflicts, extreme climate impacts, and natural disasters.

Swedish retail giant H&M will leverage Google Cloud's extensive data analytics capabilities and secure sustainable global infrastructure to further enhance its customer experience and supply chain enablement.