That decline came despite many stores remaining open for most of the month with the lockdown only being ordered on March 23.Year-on-year, sales volumes fell 5.8% and values dropped by 6%.
And while those headline figures were bad enough, clothing stores suffered an even greater catastrophe with a 34.8% volume drop and 35.8% value drop compared to the month before. Volumes fell 28.4% year-…
Read moreDesigners from France’s Jean Paul Gaultier to Lebanon’s Elie Saab descended on the Elysee Palace for dinner on Monday, as Macron sought to further boost one of the country’s most profitable sectors with an appeal to brands from far and wide.The gala, coinciding with Paris Fashion Week, was the latest effort by 40-year-old Macron, who came to power last May, to try and lure entrepreneurs with a …
Read moreFrom April 1 India imposed a new 2% tax on foreign billings, or transactions where companies take payment abroad for digital services provided in India. The tax also applies to foreign e-commerce transactions on sites such as Amazon.com.The tax, inserted into budget amendments passed in March, caught the industry off guard as it was not part of the main proposals India’s finance ministry had pr…
Read moreBut with population growth and climate change making water a scarcer and more precious resource, using water wisely is now a key to remaining profitable, they said.From growing cotton for textiles to manufacturing drinks and ensuring consumers have enough water as well, efficient water use is high on the agenda, representatives of popular brands said during opening events at World Water Week in…
Read moreOn March 13, The European Parliament voted on a bill designed to force the fashion industry to shoulder the costs for collecting, sorting and recycling unwanted and used fabrics, apparel and shoes. In the EU alone, 12.6 million tons of textile waste are produced each yearคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง…
Read moreThe year 2018 marks the fourth year since 2014 that store vacancy declined in the country, reports Dutch market research company Locatus. However, the vacancy rate was mainly reduced because many properties were given a different purpose other than retail, the company said.In 2018, 2,000 store premises were repurposedคำพูดจาก ท…
Read moreAmong the range of environmental and social initiatives included — focused on the long-term sustainability of its global footprint — is the brand’s commitment to end all production with natural fur by the end of 2022. The announcement follows a similar commitment from Toronto-based brand Canada Goose announced in June. Other textiles Moose Knuckles will be eliminating from its garments by …
Read moreThe volume of packaging material used by the sectors hit 9.4 million tonnes last year, and is on course to reach 41.3 million tonnes by 2025 if they keep up the rate of increase, Greenpeace and other non-government bodies said in a report.“The e-commerce giants have barely offered even superficial responses,” said Tang Damin, a plastics campaigner with Greenpeace in the Chinese capital Beij…
Read more“After such a strong signal from the Belgian Parliament, I do not see how diamonds could be ignored in the eleventh EU sanctions package” targeted at Russia, green MP Samuel Cogolati, one of the politicians who advocated the motion, told the AFP agency on Wednesday.A month after Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelensky, aware that the Belgian city of Antwerp is a major hub for the world’s rough dia…
Read moreThe company manages a lot of land and property, including $13 billion worth of properties in large parts of London’s West End and 17 retail parks and shopping centres around Britainคำพูดจาก ทดลองใช้ สูตรสล็อต. It said that it would reduce emissions from directly-manag…
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