Ossian Retail Group, the Scottish owner of fashion chain Internacionale and the Au Naturale homeware outlets, is believed to be on the verge of administration.
US safeguard quotas on some Chinese textile and apparel imports will finish as scheduled at the end of this year two leading trade officials have confirmed.
Department store retailer JC Penney Co is planning to open and renovate fewer stores and focus instead on private label and exclusive lines such as its American Living brand to help it ride out the economic downturn.
US government data published yesterday (16 April) showed clothing prices in March fell by 1.3%, suggesting sales of spring/summer merchandise continue to be slow.
Nike has completed its previously disclosed sale of the company’s Bauer Hockey subsidiary to an investor group led by Kohlberg & Company and Canadian businessman W Graeme Roustan for US$200m in cash.
The European Union (EU) is expected to extend definitive anti-dumping duties on leather upper footwear exported from China to similar products sold from the Macao region, following concerns about illicit trade diversion.
Women’s wear retailer The Talbots Inc has revised payment terms with its major vendors after two major banks decided to cancel their lines of credit.
Mall-based women's retailer Charlotte Russe Holding has announced that its chairman Bernard Zeichner plans to retire from its board effective 1 June, to be replaced by Jennifer Salopek as its new chairman.
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Demand for H2O2 is expected to be fueled by greater demand for pulp & paper products. Other favorable factors include environmental regulations and mandates. Global hydrogen peroxide market is projected to reach 4.3 million metric tons by the year 2012.
A Bill offering 15 year duty-free market access into the US to products from specific areas of Pakistan was introduced in the US Congress last month under the Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) scheme.
European Union (EU) ministers have been asked to swiftly approve a comprehensive trade agreement between the EU and Bosnia & Herzegovina, slashing duties on textile and clothing products traded between them.
