Although the great disruptor of the new industrial age is data and its analytics, automation in production processes also continues to advance and transform an industry that has barely changed in the last two centuries.

To face the digitalization, sustainability and robotization of the factories, the profile of the workers is also transformed becoming increasingly evident the appearance of new tasks and new profiles.

The new generation of the fashion supply chain has begun to squeeze the data, either to generate internal metrics or recharge ties with the rest of the actors.

The commerce arrived late to the digitalization, but once has taken the wave it has accelerated in its integration. The first Retail&Brand Experience World Congress (Rbewc) in Barcelona collected the last innovations.

In the five years in which Fira de Barcelona has held the event, the fair has doubled its number of expositors and it expects to exceed 22,000 visitors for the first time.

The French textile fair pointed out that the amount of British visitors dropped by 165 compared to the same edition of the previous year. This fair was visited by professionals of 127 countries.

The French fair places for the first time a firm wager on this market with the launch of the event Première Vision Sports in the United States, which will celebrate its first edition next August in Portland.

The global business of fashion fairs has accelerated their concentration in recent years, but it hasn’t been until 2018 when the biggest M&As have taken place in the sector with the entrance of two huge players: Informa and ITE Group.

The German organiser of fairs reinforces the cohesion among the different shows it has been releasing in the Le Bourget facility during the last decade in order strengthen Texworld.

With the incorporation of this show, the German fair organiser reinforces its Texcare fairs division, specialised in system, process and technology for garment industry’s finishes.

The most important fair in denim industry, which is celebrated biannually, has chosen the Italian city as the next international destiny to host the summer edition.