Does renting clothes instead of buying them have a real (positive) environmental impact?
Is renting clothes instead of buying them truly better for the planet? As the textile industry faces growing scrutiny for its environmental impact, clothing rental services promise consumers the opportunity…
Portland company will shut down after 104 years, lay off all employees
Dennis Uniform, a national school uniform business based in Southeast Portland and owned for decades by a Jewish family that settled in Oregon after escaping Nazi Germany, plans to close…
Can transparency improve pay equality?
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An employment tribunal recently ruled that Next, the UK high…
Parents feel the pinch with inflated back-to-school costs: ‘A never-ending nightmare’
Keri Rodrigues, the head of the National Parents Union, explains the financial burden parents are facing as they send kids back to school. The cost of back-to-school shopping is taking…
Fort Worth entrepreneur juggles high school and fast-growing online apparel business
Talk about a juggling act: high school senior Marielou Melchiors skipped her junior year, narrowed college application choices to schools such as Stanford and Princeton and, over the summer, started…
School uniform cost set to rise under Labour plans, suppliers have claimed
A “double whammy” of tax and wage increases announced in the Budget and Labour’s pledge to limit the number of branded items of school uniform and will lead to parents…