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Supply Chain

Supply Chain

Data and analyses of trends in the cotton textile supply chain, including commodity economics.

Supply Chain

Continuing Eco Improvements

A lot of people around the world will be celebrating Earth Day 2016 this week, all part of an effort to build the world’s largest environmental movement. While the Earth…

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Supply Chain

Mining the Data

By now, everyone has heard about big data — those large data sets that reveal shopping patterns, style trends, and human behavior, all of which can help predict what will…

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Consumers

Things are Looking Up

While fashion shows and women’s glossies are filled with hyper thin girls, the reality is their body types don’t come close to representing the average American woman. Researchers say social…

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Consumers

Quick, Easy, and Seamless

Smartphones have become such an appendage that when people are running out of the house, it’s more conceivable they would forget their wallet before they forget their device. It’s this…

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Consumers

Cotton and the Great Outdoors

Among the many scenes where one had to suspend disbelief while watching the Oscar-nominated “The Revenant” were those where frontiersman walked through icy river waters and then plodded through knee-deep…

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Retail/Brands

Prepare Accordingly

Okay, so remember a little bit ago when the death knell was rung for denim? When athleisure was going to run it out of town on a rail? Well, something…

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Consumers

Online Frontiers

Paris Fashion Week is underway and with it comes all the creativity and visual drama one expects of the world’s fashion capital. It’s flamboyant and fabulous. Meanwhile, in offices in…

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Consumers

Updating Favorites

This week at the Oscar’s, Sylvester Stallone sat in the audience after having been nominated for his supporting role as Rocky Balboa in Creed, the latest sequel to the Rocky…

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Consumers

Using Data to Create Customer Bonds

Believe it or not, there was a time when shoppers on the East Coast didn’t recognize all the stores on the West Coast. The same was true of shoppers up…

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Consumers

Accepting Reality

Customers might not be real retail merchandisers, but they like to play them online.  At least when it comes to consumer reviews. Whether effusive and positive or outright negative, shoppers…

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