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I Saw It First injects £150k into Fashion Enter academy
Manchester-based fast fashion etailer I Saw It First has invested £150,000 in Fashion Enter’s new manufacturing skills academy in Leicester, Drapers can reveal.
Leicester City Council has teamed up with training provider Fashion Enter and local clothing company Ethically Sourced Products to develop a new textiles skills centre – the Leicester Fashion Technology Academy- which will launch later this year.
The money from I Saw It First will be used to help deliver qualifications, as well as supporting ethical compliance and robust auditing processes for manufacturers.
Leanne Holmes, buying and brand director at I Saw It First, said: “We wholeheartedly support the garment industry in Leicester. We want to help train the next generation of skilled garment machinists so that the UK industry can thrive, providing much-needed jobs, especially for young people who have been hit so hard by the damaging effects of Covid on t
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London – As the new year made Brexit a reality, Tony Hale encountered the pitfalls of Europe’s redrawn political geography. Specifically, he confronted the need to extricate 53 tons of rotting pork products from administrative purgatory at a port in the Netherlands.
For more than two decades, Hale’s company had shipped pork to the European Union without customs checks, as if the United Kingdom and the continent across the water were one vast country.
With the U.K. now legally outside the bloc, exporters have suddenly had to navigate inspections, safety regulations and a bewildering crush of paperwork.
For Hale, incorrectly prepared documents meant sending five containers full of pork to an unplanned final destination: the incinerator.
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