The Italian group has joined forces with the Sustainable Markets Initiative and the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance to produce cotton in Puglia, Italy, using an experimental agroforestry cultivation system.

Bed Bath & Beyond is in talks to sell its Buybuy Baby chain to retail investment firm Go Global Retail, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday citing people familiar with the matter.

British outdoor company Equip Outdoor Technologies, owner of the Rab and Lowe Alpine brands, has announced the next stage in its Material Facts sustainability programme.

Frasers Group has appointed Google Cloud partner and business technology consultancy Sada to develop and implement a new strategic data platform across its retail portfolio.

Retail giant Frasers Group wants to cut up to 200 head office jobs, accounting for around 20% of its staff in London and Shirebrook, to reduce costs and streamline operations.

Amazon will pay more than $30 million to the US authorities to end lawsuits brought against the Ring and Alexa devices for failure to respect their users’ data privacy.

Denim Première Vision took place in Berlin for the second time. On May 31 and June 1, the fair brought together 64 denim industry players from a total of 14 countries at the Arena Berlin.

​Norwegian designer Andreas Melbostad has launched a label under his own name after years spent at a raft of major brands, with the new limited-edition unisex offer available exclusively via his webstore melbostad.com.

​With festival season getting under way, it’s interesting to see how brands are making the most of the season’s opportunities. And news has come in that Pull&Bear has renewed and enhanced its link with Primavera Sound.

​Tenants of Cadogan Estates — the landlord controlling vast swathes of London’s Chelsea — are having to sign inflation-linked leases and put down “hefty deposits”, a newspaper report has claimed.

FGF boss Enzo Fusco achieved a turnover of around 10 million euros on the German market in 2022. He revealed some of his plans for 2024 to FashionNetwork.com on the sidelines of a showroom presentation in Milan.

​We’ve heard a lot about how returns are causing a major problem for retailers in the fashion sector at present, but a new study suggests that better communication about the impact of returns could make a difference.

​A UK-based label has won the first Zalando Visionary Award in partnership with Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW) with Paolina Russo scooping the prize.

​As consumers globally get the travel bug again, Giorgio Armani Mare is backing its SS23 offer via a series of pop-ups in “the most important cities and destinations in Europe and Asia”. 

​ASOS is believed to have received a £1 billion takeover approach a few months ago from a Turkish company taking advantage of the potential in its giant market but also its falling share price.

Pure London has announced retail legend George Davies as a keynote speaker for the upcoming fashion tradeshow at London’s Olympia next month.