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WWF teams up with Vietnam’s textile and apparel sector for sustainability project

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced a partnership with the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas) to make the sector more environmentally friendly through improving water management and energy sustainability. “Vietnam ranks as the fifth largest exporter of apparel goods in the world, but our industry is more famous for...

Retail

Uniqlo to enter Vietnamese market

Japanese casual retailer Uniqlo announced plans to launch its first store in Ho Chi Mihn City in the fall of 2019. The company is soon to begin recruiting employees for the new shop. “Our entry into Vietnam is an exciting milestone for everyone at Uniqlo. The Southeast Asia region has been an important driver of growth for us, and we are pleased...

Fashion

Jewelry line calls attention to lingering effects of Vietnam War

In Laos, one person is killed each day from unexploded bombs left behind from the Vietnam War. Though the CIA-led U.S. invasion of the country ended over 40 years ago, residents of the Southeast Asian nation still face the risk of being injured or killed by the over 80 million hidden explosives. Not only do these weapons pose a daily threat, the...

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Jean-François Limantour: “The EU favors Asian countries over the Maghreb”

With a resumé that includes experience as General Representative, both at the French Union of the Fashion and Apparel Industries and the European Association of the Apparel Industry, Jean-François Limantour has been an eye-witness to many geopolitical changes that have transformed the sector. During an in person interview with FashionUnited, he...

Business

Vietnam: Thua Thien-Hue province to start garment hub

In just four years, the Thua Thien-Hue province in central Vietnam plans to transform itself into a textile and garment hub, spending the equivalent of 295 million US dollars to do so. According to Viet Nam News, the new centre would cover 400 hectares in the Phong Dien Industrial Zone. "In order to develop the sector sustainably and ensure...

Fashion

Vietnam set to surpass China as top textiles manufacturing location

London - Vietnam has managed to squeeze past China to top the list of the most-preferred manufacturing locations for textile and apparel by companies across the globe, according to a recent report published by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA). The country has potential to become the world's biggest textile producing centre...

Fashion Featured

Vietnam's design evolution: Fast fashion to ethical couture

Long a bastion for cheap, fast-fashion manufacturing, a new crop of designers are trying to transform the Made in Vietnam label and save the country's rich ethnic heritage in the process. In the remote hills of Cao Bang, some 300 kilometres north of the capital Hanoi, Vietnamese designer Thao Vu is gleefully dropping swaths of hand-spun cotton...

Fashion

Vietnam garment workers go on mass strike

London - More than 17,000 workers in Vietnam have gone on strike at a garment and footwear factory that counts adidas and Nike as clients, over new company policies that cut down their salaries for missing work. The factory, owned by Taiwan-based garment maker Pou Chen Corp, recently impose new penalties that deduct worker salaries and bonuses...

Business

Vietnam: government to inspect garment factories

The Vietnamese government, more specific its ministry of labor, war invalids and social affairs, kicked off a campaign last week in Ho Chi Minh City to carry out major inspections of garment factories, to be completed by October. The nationwide inspections will cover 150 garment factories in 12 cities and provinces by October and will focus on...

Fashion Featured

From Laos with love. Vietnam bombs become NY jewelry

Forty years after the end of the Vietnam war, US bombs dropped along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos have become expensive jewelry worn by American fashionistas. Delicate bracelets encrusted with diamonds, bronze pendants, necklaces and drop earrings -- all made from ordnance left over from America's deadliest war -- are on display on the...

Business

TAL Group to set up 50 million dollar garment factory in Vietnam

The Singaporean apparel arm of Hong Kong-based garment manufacturer TAL Group, TAL Apparel Limited, is planning to set up a 50 million US dollar factory in Vietnam’s northern province of Vinh Phuc to manufacture textiles, fabrics and garments. According to the Vietnam Investment Review, the company already received the green signal from local...

Apparel

Vietnam exports garment accessories for first time

For Vietnam, the world’s fourth largest garment exporting nation, 2013 marked the first year of garment accessories exports. Previously, the country had to import most input material from overseas. According to Vinatex, the Vietnam Garment and Textile Group, garment accessories exports accounted for 700 million US dollars last year, or 3.5...