Behind the racks of clothes in your local store lies a $1.175 trillion global industry guided by your wants and needs. In order to meet consumer expectations, retailers must decide where to make or ...

Technology has dramatically altered the apparel industry, but the need to source textiles, trims and findings for manufacture into garments that fit the consumer's budget keeps the basic structure of ...

Factories are using a combination of resource-efficient technologies to cut waste, conserve water, and build resilience.

Sri Lanka’s apparel industry posted a 5.42 percent growth in exports in the first 11 months of 2025, defying the uneven ...

The garment industry in Bangladesh faced a slew of problems in 2024. But one of its focuses for 2025 might be figuring out how to retain workers whose jobs have been negatively impacted by automation.

She enjoys a reputation as a tough, courageous labor leader who went to great lengths to obtain better wages and working conditions for garment workers. But Min Matheson did have her frightening ...

For much of the 20th century, the clothes that Middle America wore came from Kansas City factories. Scores of clothing manufacturers, many of them headquartered near Broadway in the northern part of ...

MASERU, Lesotho — Vekile Sesha stood outside the rusted gates of a garment factory in the industrial district of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, willing her luck to change. Four months earlier, the ...

(New York) – Clothing and footwear brands and retailers have dramatically increased their disclosure of information about their supply chains in the past three years, a coalition of unions, human ...

Factory owners in California’s garment industry have gotten away with illegally paying workers below-minimum wages for decades. A bill that cleared a major hurdle in the Assembly on Wednesday aims to ...