Updates

The Walmart Foundation announced it has provided a $2,000,000, three-year grant to the Soil Health Institute's (SHI) U.S. Regenerative Cotton Fund (USRCF) to scale activities of the project and expand the initiative to Alabama and South Carolina.

Tourism and fashion come together in the Irish county of Donegal as it launches a clothing range with a sportswear major to tom-tom its rich heritage and strong diaspora connections.

China's textiles industry has posted stable revenue growth in the first half of this year, the country's official news agency has reported quoting official data.

Asos, Bestseller, H&M, G-Star Raw, Inditex, C&A are among global 19 brands who have agreed to exhort garment and textile factories in Turkey to respect workers’ rights.

Global luxury retail giant Burberry has received approval from  Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for its net zero emissions target. The approval, the company says, confirms that Burberry’s aim to attain net-zero emission by 2040 is based on the latest climate science and meets the urgent need to keep warming to 1.5°C – in line with the Paris Agreement.

An American company has been slapped a $157,683.37 penalty for deceiving consumers about the country of origin of their products.

Expanding bilateral ties, a Bangladesh-Türkiye Business Forum (BTBF) has been formed to support trade, investments, and cultural activities and also act as an advocacy platform.

In a bid to promote innovation in textile recycling and use research findings to address practical issues, the Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has set up a collaborative textile research centre.

In the first truly holistic approach to sustainability for the entire leather value chain, the Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF) has come up with a dynamically linked Partner Profiles and QR Codes which directly link up an individual company’s own website, the SLF website and the company’s personal Transparency Dashboard. texfash.com reports.

An investigation by the Unearthed team of Greenpeace and Daily Mail newspaper have unravelled a scandal in Cambodia wherein off-cuts from Cambodian clothing factories that supply leading western brands, including Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors, are being used to fuel brick-kilns—exposing bonded workers to toxic fumes.