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AS Roma and Nike announce a new partnership for Nike to become the club's official apparel and equipment sponsor.
The 10-year agreement will begin at the start of the 2014-15 season. Nike will produce all on-pitch and training product, from the first team to the youth teams, as well as off-pitch product for the players and fans.
"We're proud to partner with AS Roma, a club with great heritage," said Bert Hoyt, VP/GM of Nike Western Europe.
"It’s a club that embodies strong characterist
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With ever changing and improving technology, the application of digital printing technique on textile industry is moving at the fast lane. Industry researchers estimate that there will be an increase of 30 billion yards of material volume on annual growth rate in worldwide textile printing industry, while the application of digital printing on textile goods accounts for growing share and continues expanding, which moves from mass-production to mass-customization. Using digital textile printing t
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Sears Canada Inc. is issuing a voluntary safety recall for a Nevada infant girl's shirt. It has been discovered that the small ribbon row can easily detach posing a potential choking hazard.
The Nevada tee shirt was sold in sizes: 6 months to 24 months at Sears Canada retail stores between September 2012 and December 2012. The Sears item numbers are as follows and can be found on the customer's receipt.
In the interest of consumer safety, Sears Canada urges customers who have the affected
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Move over skinny jeans – flared and wide leg trousers are back and are the biggest style hit of the spring summer season, says department store Debenhams.
No longer banished to fashion history books and seen only on the likes of Elvis and John Travolta, flares have returned to glory and are the best way to cut a fine fashion figure as we move into the warmer months of 2013.
As new lines hit down, Debenhams has seen customers react fantastically to the return of flares, with early styles se
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The Buckle, Inc. announced that net income for the fiscal quarter ended February 2, 2013 was $61.4 million, or $1.29 per share ($1.28 per share on a diluted basis). Net income for the fiscal year February 2, 2013 was $164.3 million, or $3.47 per share ($3.44 per share on a diluted basis).
Net sales for the 14-week fiscal quarter ended February 2, 2013 increased 7.0 percent to $360.6 million from net sales of $337.1 million for the prior year 13-week fiscal quarter ended January 28, 2012.
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Reports indicate that last year Tanzania generated close to $81.52m from cotton exports.
Of the harvest, 80% of is exported to Asia.
The Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB)'s Ag Director General, Mr. Gabriel Mwalo told East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam that cotton production has also shot up by 100,000 tons a year.
He explained that 355,000 tons of cotton were produced in the season year 2012/13 compared to 255,000 tons that were recorded for the 2011/12.
"The increase in cotton farming
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LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB), the largest producer of polypropylene, may spend as much as $1 billion through 2016 to boost output of chemicals and plastics to take better advantage of low-cost U.S. natural gas.
New projects costing $900 million to $1 billion will increase annual pretax earnings by $500 million to $600 million, the Rotterdam-based company said today in a webcast presentation from New York. The projects are in addition to previously announced expansions that will add as mu
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Vietnam will host the 4 th ASEAN Traditional Textile Symposium, which is expected to see the participation of more than 200 international and domestic guests and 100 traditional weavers from 10 ASEAN nations, Canada, Japan, India and the US from March 15-18.
The event, themed “Traditions, Innovations and Interactions: Paving a Creative Path for Traditional Textiles of Southeast Asia”, will be held in the northern province of Thai Nguyen .
Vietnam will be represented by members of the Vietnam
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The market is witnessing shortage of raw materials for the value-added textile sector, particularly polyester yarn, as importers have stopped clearing their shipments because of the uncertainty regarding new taxes.
Javed Bilwani of Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers Association (PHMA) said that around 1,200 containers of raw materials were stuck at the port and importers failed to get them cleared, as there had been no notification of reducing five percent withholding tax on raw material imports a
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Textile mills in China, the world's largest consumer of cotton, will buy more fibre from bulging state reserves over the next five months, after a state stockpiling drive cut back domestic supplies, analysts said.
A large sale of state cotton would further slow imports by China, the world's top buyer, particularly after U.S. cotton prices touched a 10-month high.
State reserves are at a record high of 10 million tonnes, or more than 60 percent of global stocks, after the stockpiling effort p