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The Flanarant - Arcadia collapse: What went wrong?
2020-12-07 11:06:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Everyone knows why Arcadia collapsed. But there are a lot of confused - often downright wrong - ideas about what helped push it over the edge, says Mike Flanagan, CEO of apparel industry consultancy Clothesource. And stop blaming Amazon, he adds.
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The Flanarant - Why Brexit in name only looks increasingly likely
2018-07-31 15:06:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
After the publication of the UK government's Brexit White Paper earlier this month, Mike Flanagan, CEO at consultancy Clothesource, is more convinced than ever that Britain is going to stay in a Single Market with the European Union - and that Brexit will exist as a name only.
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The Flanarant - Brexit threat fades, along with interest
2018-03-22 13:48:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
This week, the UK and EU agreed a provisional Brexit transition deal on their relationship from March 2019. So what's going to change next year? More or less nothing, writes Mike Flanagan, adding that the end result is likely to mean little more than 'Brexit existing as name only' - or Beano.
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The Flanarant - What CollaGin taught me about the fashion industry
2017-11-28 18:34:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
?A recent change of direction has seen Mike Flanagan swap some of his clothing consultancy time to run a local deli. But the move has also opened his eyes to the reasons why apparel, an industry that's supposed to be all about fun and dynamism, is in a rut.
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The Flanarant - Factory safety isn't the biggest risk to Bangladesh workers
2017-07-12 19:11:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The death of 13 people following a boiler explosion earlier this month at the Multifabs factory in Bangladesh's Gazipur district makes many of us wonder why the country's garment making sector still seems so tragically unsafe, writes Mike Flanagan. While spectacular advances have been in garment factory safety over the past four years, they have not been matched by improvements in other threats to Bangladeshi workers' lives.