Jan 3, 2019 — 6:00pm
Fashion confronts twelve months of uncertainty, in which trade war, Brexit, populism and currency volatility will be key for the sector.
Markets
Dec 31, 2018 — 10:00am
Negative reports by analysts have been constantly published in a year in which not even Inditex has managed to avoid the penalisation of the market. The reduction of margins, online growth and the sector’s transformation are all to blame: the stock market has turned its back on fashion’s listed titans.
Dec 26, 2018 — 12:34pm
Articles related to the fashion industry are yet outside this package, with which the Asian leviathan wants to favour the development of the new Silk Road.
Dec 20, 2018 — 5:15pm
The retail sales of clothing items, footwear and garment accumulate three positive months after dropping 0.6% in August, according to the last provisional data gathered by Office for National Statistics.
Dec 20, 2018 — 9:57am
From extreme right in Brazil to historical elections in Cuba, the region ends an intense year regarding electoral matters with two possible scenes: integration or of protectionism
Dec 20, 2018 — 9:54am
Turkey has managed to overcome politic and economic contingencies to evolve into a leading partner of fashion European companies for near-sourcing.
Dec 19, 2018 — 9:54am
Ten years after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy acted as the starting gun for the global recession, economists are now wondering if the world is ready to avoid a new collapse. The answer, as put by the IMF’s chief economist, is not comforting.
Dec 18, 2018 — 9:57am
The peak of populist movements, with protectionism as a rising trend, threatened to stop both the global commerce and the economy. According to experts, the worst background would be stagflation (inflation but with economic stagnation) or, in the words of IMF chief economist, a “poorer and more dangerous” world.
Dec 13, 2018 — 9:54am
Australia, which produces 88% of the wool consumed by the fashion industry, is suffering the consequences of an unprecedent drought that is severely affecting pastures.
Dec 11, 2018 — 5:00pm
Eight out of ten countries in the ranking elaborated by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are European, except Singapore and New Zealand.
Dec 11, 2018 — 10:00am
The French market, destiny of 12% of Spanish garment articles, clothing items, footwear and complements exports, could slow down its growth rate if the protests that have taken place during these weeks persist or expand.
Dec 6, 2018 — 6:00pm
All markets within the continent have their own particularities: from Canada, where online e-commerce is based on imports, to Mexico, where challenges like credit cards use or logistics are starting to being solved.
Dec 6, 2018 — 10:00am
There is a great distance between the United Kingdom, where 78% of the total population purchases online, and Bulgaria or Romania, for instance, where the percentage stands only at 11%
Dec 5, 2018 — 6:00pm
The sector is in that way recovered from September’s figures, when sales dropped 7.2% according to Eurostat. In spite of that, it is still the sector that has grown less in the whole Eurozone.
Dec 4, 2018 — 5:00pm
The sector will obtain a revenue of 517 billion euros in 2021, according to the last report carried out by consultant EY The Luxury and Cosmetics Financial Factbook.
News on the latest macroeconomic indicators related to the textile- and fashion industry worldwide.
