Less than a quarter of companies fully open on fighting forced labor

The number of people globally living as slaves, trafficked into brothels or forced labor, is estimated at nearly 36 million by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation with the slavery business estimated to be worth $150 billion a year.Anti-slavery campaigners have called for companies to be more transparent over their supply chains and for consumers to insist on knowing where goods come from a…

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Klarna hails UK growth as number of customers shoots up to 7 million

The company’s services allow shoppers to pay for their purchase over time when shopping online with over 5,000 merchants, including Asos, River Island, JD Sports, Boohoo, Missguided and Topshop.Over the past 12 months, a new Klarna order was made every 1.3 seconds and more than 1.6 million UK customers have downloaded the Klarna app to date. In the second half of 2019, an average of over 88,0…

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Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association elects first female head

Rubana Huq, 55, is managing director of Mohammadi Group, which owns a string of factories supplying brands like H&M and Primark in Bangladesh, the world’s second largest garment exporter, employing 4 million people.“I believe that in an industry where more than 80 percent of the workers are women, they should be given a greater chance to voice their interests,” said Huq, the new president…

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Kering Eyewear launches digital platform to assess value chain’s environmental impact

Virtus, the acronym of ‘Verified, integrated, reliable, trustworthy, unique and secure’, is designed to assess and track all the operations relating to the manufacturing process of Kering Eyewear, whose headquarters are in Padua, Italy.“Every partner in the Kering Eyewear network will be called on to record directly on the digital platform the data and information required to verify and c…

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Philippine garment exporters to furlough 30% of workers

“We are trying our best to maintain status quo within the workforceคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Since capacity for [the] third quarter is projected to be down at 40 percent, we expect around 20 percent to 30 percent of regular workers may be on furlough until end-year,” Maritess Agon…

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SIL-International Lingerie Show- a new section for new inspiration

Pinet’s mission for the show is to launch an inspirational new section, one closer to the new consumer preferences and designed to de-compartmentalise lingerie. The new section will be called ‘Uncover’ and will host about forty brands, most of them newly launched, of courseคำพูดจาก เว็บสล็อ…

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U.S. companies vow to fight racism but face critics on diversity

The unprecedented outpouring of support, however, has stirred up criticism along with praise. Many social justice advocates, corporate diversity experts and investors say companies also need to focus on equity in their own ranks, especially by hiring and promoting minority workers.The tensions show the difficulty executives face in aligning their firms with popular social causes at a time of so…

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Mexico’s senate ratifies sweeping Asia-Pacific trade deal

Senators voted 73-24 to approve the pact, which was signed in March without the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of talks within days of taking office last year.Mexico, which has been a leading proponent of free trade in Latin America, is currently in talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and the United Statesคำพูด…

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YNAP rolls out virtual try-on for Mr Porter’s own brand

And importantly, the addition will aim “to reduce the need for customers to return items”, Mr Porter noted, highlighting a problem that’s a major one as much for the luxury sector as it is for online sellers lower down the price scale.The initiative, which will run over six months, launches internationally in six languages (English, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean and Arabic).คำพ…

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PayPal rolls out Venmo payments to its U.S. retailers

Venmo, which has been part of PayPal since 2013, is one of the most popular mobile applications to make person-to-person payments in the United States. It processed $8 billion in payments in the second quarter of this year.Venmo users will be able to use their app balance or linked cards and bank account to shop on the mobile sites of almost all merchants that accept payments with PayPal, inclu…

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