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  • Inside SJ Denim's Fall Issue: A Decade of Denim

    Inside SJ Denim's Fall Issue: A Decade of Denim
    2025/10/30
    SJ Denim turned 10 this year, and after a decade reporting on the business of denim, one thing is clear: trends might be constantly looking to the past, but innovations and sustainability attitudes are all about the future. In this episode, Sourcing Journal executive editor and denim expert Angela Velasquez chats with Lauren Parker, director of Fairchild Studio, about the latest issue of SJ Denim and the industry at large. With the Kingpins denim show in Amsterdam fresh in her mind, Velasquez also offered forward-looking trend and business insights on the future of denim. https://sourcingjournal.com/report/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    13 分
  • Mitigating Retail Cybersecurity Risk

    Mitigating Retail Cybersecurity Risk
    2025/10/15
    With the rapid growth in e-commerce, retailers increasingly collect and store customer data to deliver personalized shopping experiences. Yet without proper safeguards in place, unsecured data can introduce significant risk. It’s not just consumer personal data that’s increasingly at risk, but corporate information as well. “The retail industry is one of the most IP-intensive industries in the world, and it needs to protect its trade secrets as well as intellectual property,” said Alexander Niejelow, executive director, Hilco Global Cyber Advisors, in a fireside chat for Retail Rx with Lauren Parker, director of Fairchild Studio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    21 分
  • Material Innovation and Verification in Circular Fashion

    Material Innovation and Verification in Circular Fashion
    2025/09/23
    Any brand can claim sustainable materials, but words mean nothing without third-party testing and certifications. In fact, unverified sustainability claims—even if they are valid—can often lead to suspicions of greenwashing. Here, Min Zhu, senior director, technical services and operations, US & Canada Softlines, of global testing and certification company SGS, and Haley Gershon, marketing manager of SGS Beta (formerly Beta Analytic), a leading Carbon-14 testing lab for biobased materials that SGS acquired in November 2024, discuss why biobased materials need verification. Watch the fireside chat to learn: The current status of circular fashion and its key progresses The journey of SGS and Beta’s combination and synergy SGS solutions to material sustainability and circularity How SGS collaborates with fashion brands to test and verify biobased materials SGS’ IMPACT NOW sustainability initiatives Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 分
  • Inside SJ's Logistics Report: The Technology Issue

    Inside SJ's Logistics Report: The Technology Issue
    2025/09/16
    When it comes to logistics and technology, machines and humans continue their symbiotic dance to get goods loaded, shipped, railed, trucked, stored, sorted, picked, packed and delivered with ever-greater efficiencies. And what they’re achieving, is nothing short of amazing, although not without its challenges. In this episode, Lauren Parker, director of SJ and Fairchild Studios, dives into SJ's "Logistics Report: The Technology Issue" with two Sourcing Journal editors, logistics editor Glenn Taylor and business editor Meghan Hall, business editor. They discuss what's now, what's next, and what it all means for your business. Download the report at: www.sourcingjournal.com/report Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 分
  • AGI Denim Scales Clean Tech Across Operations to Maximize Impact and Efficiency

    AGI Denim Scales Clean Tech Across Operations to Maximize Impact and Efficiency
    2025/08/18
    As the denim industry places greater emphasis on circularity and the full life cycle of a product, AGI Denim is emerging as a key player driving change through innovation and intentional growth. To build a more sustainable supply chain and manufacturing model, the Pakistan-based vertical denim manufacturer is investing in advanced technologies that deliver more with less. This includes Smartec Dyeing Machine that reduces water usage simultaneously enhancing color vibrancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    8 分
  • Inside SJ Denim's 'Made in America' Report

    Inside SJ Denim's 'Made in America' Report
    2025/07/30
    Is there anything more quintessentially American than blue jeans? Denim is so entrenched in the American psyche that it can be easy to forget that most jeans have been manufactured overseas for decades. To explore this disconnect—and to dive into the trials and tribulations of bringing domestic denim manufacturing back—Sourcing Journal themed its Summer SJ Denim edition the “Made in America” Issue. In this episode, Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal's executive editor and denim editor, chats with Lauren Parker, director, Fairchild Studio, about what Made in America denim really means. Read the report HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    10 分
  • Why Fashion Should Focus on Data Management to Weather Global Disruption

    Why Fashion Should Focus on Data Management to Weather Global Disruption
    2025/07/18
    As the political and economic landscapes shift amid President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war, the fashion industry—like many others—is bracing for impact by tightening supply chain operations. To help navigate these disruptions, Computer Generated Solutions (CGS) released the 10th annual edition of its BlueCherry State of Supply Chain and Technology Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 分
  • Can Leather Supply Chains Be Forest Friendly?

    Can Leather Supply Chains Be Forest Friendly?
    2025/07/18
    Just as cotton sustainability starts at the farm, leather sustainability starts at the ranch. Leather is a natural byproduct of food production, but cattle farming accounts for about 40 percent of all GHG emissions from agri-food systems, not to mention deforestation when not managed correctly. That’s why the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is teaming up with companies that utilize leather to support the newly launched Deforestation-Free Leather Fund, transform leather supply chains and protect the world’s forests. Listen to the podcast with Fernando Bellese, senior director for beef and leather supply chains, WWF, and Lauren Parker, director, Fairchild Studio to learn: How the Fund is educating brands about leather’s role in deforestation and providing solutions. Why it so important to preserve tropical forests. Why companies must work together to address deforestation and promote more transparent supply chains. How the Fund is helping to scale leather traceability systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 分