American & Efird (A&E) division of Elevate Textiles Inc has agreed to buy the high performance yarn business of Charles Craft Inc, a leading manufacturer and distributor of high-performance flame resistant/cut resistant industrial yarns and other specialty products say media reports.

This acquisition will expand A&E’s product offering related to thermal protection, cut resistant and flame retardant yarns. It will include the acquisition of Charles Craft manufacturing operations in Hamer, SC, which will operate as part of the American & Efird US manufacturing platform.

Frank Buie, Vice President-Sales for Charles Craft, will join American & Efird as part of the sales management team. According to him, becoming part of the larger A&E brand provides new life and longevity to its well-known technical yarns besides offering new opportunities for its employees and customers.

The British clothing giant Ted Baker has signed fashion retailer Next as its new lingerie and nightwear lingerie partner.

As per the deal, Next will make and distribute Ted Baker’s lingerie and nightwear collections, which will be known as ‘B by Ted Baker’.

To be developed in close collaboration with Ted Baker’s creative team, ‘B by Ted Baker’ will be officially unveiled in May 2021.

The exquisite Ted Baker-Next collections will be available not only through Next’s online retail channels, but also via the website of Ted Baker.

The new agreement carries forward the good relations both the brands have been sharing with each other for several years. Notably, early this year, Next had also unveiled Ted Baker’s childrenswear collections.

Ted Baker believes licence partnerships such as the one signed with Next is a key component to its ‘Formula for Growth’ – Ted Baker’s 3-year transformation plan that was launched this summer.

Karl Mayer, a German innovative leader for solutions in warp knitting, warp preparation for weaving and technical textiles, has carried an extensive development work on electrically conductive and high tenacity materials which are processed on multibar raschel machines.

Different thread systems can also be combined with warp knitting technology to produce fabrics with a wide variety of properties. Functional yarns in particular can result in exceptional performance profiles. For a long time now, the high-performance models have been making new, chic lace patterns possible for the lingerie and clothing sector. When producing technical articles, functional yarns can be arranged in areas of any shape, size and placement thanks to their diverse potential.

A combination of jacquard and multibar patterning is the prerequisite for the extraordinary patterning possibilities of multibar raschel machines. The split jacquard bars are full set threading and produce a basic structure that can be creatively designed using a single needle motion, while string bars with multibar patterning incorporate additional yarns into the diverse ground structure to add a functionality. The added thread material is supplied by bobbins, so it does not have to be warped onto warp beams.

By directly integrating electrically conductive yarns into warp knitted textiles, functional elements such as sensors, conductors and coils can be incorporated very easily, without any additional production steps or compromising the textile characteristics. Karl Mayer’s product manager, Sophia Krinner, has already investigated the possibilities as part of Textile-Circuit. Silvercoated filaments such as Elitex, Silvertech, Shieldex and Agsis were used for the work. Even fine insulated metal filaments and metallised yarns like Elitex TPU and Percon isolated could be used depending on flexibility and diameter.

G-III apparel has appointed Robert L Johnson as the newest member of its board of directors, informs Fashion Network. The company’s board will now consist of twelve members, with Johnson being the eighth independent director on the board.

Johnson has led an impressive career as the founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, LLC and former founder and chairman of Black Entertainment Television (BET), the nation's first black-owned cable television network.

After successfully taking three companies public, Johnson was named to USA Today’s '25 Most Influential Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years' and Black Enterprise’s 40th Anniversary issue’s list of 'Titans: The 40 Most Powerful African Americans in Business'.

G-III’s portfolio of brands includes DKNY, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Karl Lagerfeld, among others.

Earlier this month, the NYC-based group reported a 53.8 percent decline in its second-quarter sales, as a result of disruptions related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

For the second quarter ended July 31, 2020, the company’s net sales dropped to $297.2 million from $643.9 million in the same period last year.

Looking forward, the company expects net sales to decline in the range of 28 to 33 percent in the second half of its fiscal year, compared to the same period last year.

CLASS ecohub, the international platform empowering professionals with responsible tools, materials and services, is organizing a panel that involves visionary innovators in the circular economy panorama who will share valuable case histories, out-of-the-box approaches and their ongoing projects. The event - under the patronage of the Municipality of Milan - is scheduled on September 28, the first day of Milano Design City, the citywide festival celebrating innovation, style and creativity through design-thinking.

The panel will present challenges and opportunities of creating new circular economy-driven business models across multiple disciplines. Giusy Bettoni, CEO and Founder of CLASS, moderates Chiara Catgiu, Senior Analyst Make Fashion Circular at Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Clara Mattioli, Head of Global Communication at Wolford, Barbara Guarducci, creative director of Mending for Good, Giulia Giglio, Innovation Manager at Krill Design and Francesco Giberti, founder and CEO of MyFoody and Babaco Market.

The event is part of Smart Voices, the virtual program of CLASS which brings together innovators, thinkers and designers determined to make fashion and design more responsible, ethical and sustainable.

The Asian Development Bank has revised upward its economic projection for Cambodia, forecasting gross domestic product would contract by 4 per cent this year, rather than the 5.5 per cent forecast in Jun

According to the ADB's Asian Development Outlook 2020 Update, Cambodia's agricultural exports rose 17 per cent on the year in the first six months of 2020, while ‘strong demand’ for work-from-home electronics had boosted exports from Cambodia and other Asian countries. Cambodia's non-garment, non-footwear and non-travel goods exports increased by 30 per cent.

The agency foresees a relatively strong economic recovery for Cambodia, which has avoided an uncontrolled outbreak of coronavirus cases. The agency expects growth to rebound to 5.9 per cent in 2021, boosted by supportive government policies, social assistance for the poor, and financing support for small and medium-sized enterprises.

In the first seven months of the year, Cambodia shipped $3.4 billion worth of goods to the US, up from $2.7 billion for the same period in 2019. For comparison, the US accounted for 26.8 per cent of Cambodia's exports last year, slightly more than the EU's 25 per cent, according to World Bank data, a gap that looks set to widen in 2020.

The top three exports to the U.S. through July this year were garments, travel goods and footwear. Electronics, responsible for about $118 million in export value in the first seven months, saw the largest growth, soaring more than 1,000 per cent year on year.

Prepared in compliance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standards core option, this Calik Denim’s second sustainability report includes information about the company’s goals for 2025 and the contribution it aims to provide in terms of Sustainable Development Goals.

The report has been prepared on the principles of United Nations Global Compact signed in 2019. alik Denim allocated 4.1 million Turkish Lira to environmental investments and expenditures, while it reduced the amount of water used per product by 11% in the last three years and increased the amount of electricity generated from solar energy to 10 MWh in 2019.

Calik further progress focuses on different areas such as R&D, product quality and safety, and sustainable raw material supply, on local social and economic development, occupational health and safety, human rights, climate change, energy, water management and chemicals management with the aim to reduce its impact on the environment.

Calik Denim has set the Goals for 2025 under four topics, recognizing 2016 as the base year. They are: Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Raw Material Supply, Innovation and Thought Leadership, Internal and External Stakeholder Rights.

Cambodia’s garment manufacturers association has brought up a case against the European Commission at the EU court of justice following the withdrawal of duty-free and quota-free access to the EU market over the summer.

According to the plaintiffs, the EU executive failed to properly assess the proportionality” of the move for the garments, footwear and travel goods sectors, and has violated the industry’s “right to good administration under the EU treaties.

Garments, footwear and travel goods sectors totaling €1.1 billion in exports are now subject to general World Trade Organization tariffs, in a move aimed at putting economic weight behind the EU’s calls for an improvement of the human rights situation in the country.

The European Commission began the procedure to partially withdraw Cambodia’s preferential access to the single market in 2018. The EU’s decision came after the dissolution in November 2017 of the only viable opposition party in the country, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), accompanied by treason charges brought against its leader, Kem Sokha.

Before the withdrawal, the union reported 30,000-40,000 layoffs, from the 150,000 people employed by the industry at the beginning of the year. The organization said the numbers represent a “crushing impact of the pandemic on global demand for footwear.

Aero Club, which sells footwear, apparel and accessories under the Woodland brand, is being forced to rationalize its store count/expenses. However, it will expand its online business at the same time.

The company currently has an exclusive retail chain of over 600 stores in a CO-CO (company owned, company operated) model.

The company is also renegotiating rentals for its existing stores. At the same time, to compensate, Aero Club is expanding its online business.

Due to the lockdown customers were not stepping out to shop and were turning to online platforms. This trend helped the company register 40-50 percent growth in online sales. Post-lockdown, Aero Club has witnessed momentum picking up for both apparel and footwear.

Aero Club plans to expand its online business to reach out to the masses with its range, over and above the key styles offered by e-commerce partners. It has started seeing demand reviving for both apparel and footwear. Singh feels the festive season will help it achieve at least 40 percent of its FY21 revenue target.

The company closed FY20 with almost Rs 1,300 crore in revenue as against Rs 1,250 crore for FY19. Almost 60 percent of the turnover came from footwear and the rest from apparel and accessories.

With the ban on Chinese products reducing import of Chinese circular knitted polyester cloth to 200 tons, Surat –based manufacturers are gearing up to produce the fabric, used in the T-shirts for IPL players, in their facilities. There are 150 manufacturers of circular knitted polyester fabrics in the city who have about 3,000 machines. Labor cost in creating these fabrics is only 50 paise per meter as compared to normal fabrics, and the demand in the local market is very high. Polyester fabrics made by circular knitting industry are in demand for its multipurpose uses, including the making of shoes, suitcases, baby frocks, swimming costumes, leggings and T-shirts.

Before the pandemic, Surat imported 800 tons of polyester knitted fabrics from China, which has now reduced to 200 ton. In comparison, Surat manufacturers produce more than Rs 5.5 crore worth of textiles at an estimated 4.5 lakh kg per day. About 80 per cent of this fabric that is used across the country is produced in Surat, while 20 per cent of the fabrics are exported to Arab countries.