Middle East conflict expected to worsen supply strain on UK retailers
While total UK retail sales increased by 3.6% year-on-year in March 2026, above the 1.1% seen in March 2025, much…
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Rachel Lawler
Rachel has been working in editorial for more than 10 years, covering a range of specialist topics including science, education, beauty and now the apparel sector. She is looking forward to learning more about this exciting industry.
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Vinted revenue tops $1bn in 2025 as secondhand market soars
Vinted says it is on a mission to “make secondhand the first choice” across the globe and looks to be…
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Walmart backs Unspun’s plans for US apparel manufacturing hubs
Unspun plans to build manufacturing capacity in the US using AI-enabled 3D weaving technology that will allow for commercial-scale production.…
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India, Vietnam, Cambodia rise as apparel hubs amid trade protectionism
Despite key concerns around fragmentation and tariffs, TradeBeyond says 2026 is a “year of cautious optimism, marked by uncertainty, restrained…
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Week in Review: Shein, ultra-fast fashion and circularity
While ‘Shein’ and ‘circularity’ might seem like incompatible concepts to some, its latest report offered some insights into a consumer…
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TrusTrace says compliance platform is delivering time savings
TrusTrace says the One Retail Hub platform can remove fragmented, retailer-by-retailer data requests for sustainability teams. Brands using the platform…
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Returns surge driven by ‘poor product information’
Akeneo’s 2025 Consumer Returns Report found that 43% of consumers have returned a product in the past year after pre-purchase…
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Deal or no deal: Authentic Brands sets sights on Nike-owned Converse
Nike’s Q3 financial results sent the deals rumour mill into overdrive: Is it mulling a sale of Converse? Officially, no,…
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Reju awarded €135m to scale textile-to-textile regeneration hub
The funding will support Reju’s planned industrial-scale regeneration hub in Chemelot Industrial Park, which will process post-consumer textiles. Reju says…
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Small charges for clothes recycling can reshape shopping habits, study claims
EPR charges were found to reshape what consumers buy, rather than how much they spend, in what WEFT believes is…