Recently it was announced that one of the world s leading online fashion companies, Boohoo, is looking at financially incentivising its leadership team for achieving sustainability targets. The business discussed this issue in a meeting with the UK government late last year and the government has now written to the company s chairman, urging him to
link executive bonuses to progress on workers rights and environmental sustainability.
We have seen talk of this kind of thing in the past but not so much in the textile and apparel industry. I believe this picture may change soon, not just because it is the only sure-fire way to ensure companies will do what they say they are going to on sustainability issues, but also because of compliance reasons.
Denim Expert’s Mostafiz ‘sustainable fashion champion’
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Mostafiz Uddin, managing director of Chattogram-based exporter Denim Expert, has been accorded a Sustainable Fashion Champion title at Drapers Sustainable Fashion Awards 2021.
Drapers, a 134-year-old fashion magazine based in the United Kingdom, introduced the awards last year at its annual Sustainable Fashion Conference, which brings together global fashion stakeholders.
The award is said to recognise strides in reducing the fashion industry s environmental impact and creating fairer working conditions across the supply chain so that lessons can be taken from the best practices, according to a message from Mostafiz.
For 12 months now, the global fashion industry has been in a state of flux. Shops are opened, shops are closed. They are reopened, then they are closed again. This story is playing out throughout the world, in the US, Europe and beyond.
Denim Expert employs 2,000 workers in Bangladesh
The owner of a jeans manufacturer in Bangladesh is warning of a grave humanitarian crisis in the country if fashion stores in key export markets do not reopen for business soon.
In an open letter to governments in the EU, UK and US, Mostafiz Uddin says ongoing lockdowns in Western markets are killing Bangladesh s ready-made garment industry.
The managing director of manufacturer Denim Expert Limited, and founder and CEO of Bangladesh Denim Expo and Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE), is imploring them to consider the impact the action is having on the millions of workers in their supply chains.