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Winter bites Hallenstein
Challenging winter trading took a heavy toll on Hallenstein Glasson's full-year profit, but an analyst says the outlook may soon improve.
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Dressing for US success
The founders of Stolen Girlfriends Club say a supply agreement the local fashion label has secured in the United States has the potential to open a lot of doors for the brand in the world's biggest economy.
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Warm autumn keeps lid on retail sales
Retail sales slowed in the first quarter as the long, hot summer sapped consumers' appetite to buy more clothing.
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Disaster singes fashion ethics
Two weeks on, the Rana Plaza catastrophe in Bangladesh is now the deadliest catastrophe in the history of the garment industry, with the death toll toping 1000.
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Re-engineering a business too far, too fast
What a difference a CEO makes. When Ron Johnson was brought in to run JC Penney in late 2011, the department store chain was still referred to in the media as "venerable". Now, it's more often called "troubled".
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Fury over rape, violence tees
Amazon was forced to apologise for selling T-shirts with slogans promoting rape and violence on its website.
![$100 - All you need to dress a family of four](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=798)
$100 - All you need to dress a family of four
The cost of clothing has hardly budged in the past 20 years - and items can be even cheaper if you're prepared to barter.
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Dita De Boni: Embracing porn culture
The more offensive to women an advertising campaign is, apparently, the more popular it becomes to the fresh-faced youth of the nation, writes Dita De Boni.
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Uniform shop says school 'bullying'
A South Auckland school has threatened a shop selling its uniforms with legal action after signing an exclusive deal with another supplier.
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Pumpkin Patch adds Briscoe boss to board
Pumpkin Patch has announced two new directors will join its board, one of whom is Briscoe Group managing director Rod Duke.
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Icebreaker: A true NZ success story
Icebreaker's Jeremy Moon loves the symbiotic relationship between the families, the land and the animals on sheep stations. Icebreaker's Jeremy Moon is obsessed with merino. Viva catches up with him at a Queenstown sheep station where it all begins.
![Hard times mean suit up or ship out](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=798)
Hard times mean suit up or ship out
Men's suit retailers say their businesses have partly benefited from economic stagnation...