Dior reopens its Baby Dior ateliers to make surgical masks

“We are proud to reopen our Baby Dior ateliers in Redon, which since this morning have begun the continuous production of new masks on a voluntary basis,” said the Paris-based fashion house. The masks will be mainly used by first needs workers in the food and transport industries, Dior indicated. Redon is a small town in Brittany, better known as a center of production of Bic lighters.Read more

Amazon’s rising air shipments fly in the face of climate plan

Yet the company’s use of airplanes – the most climate-damaging mode of transportation – is on the rise, according to data provided to Reuters.Amazon Air’s U.S. volume has risen steadily since its 2016 launch, according to an analysis of Department of Transportation data by Cargo Facts Consulting https://www.cargofactsconsulting.com, a Luxembourg-based advisory firm with a global staff and more …

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Key antitrust lawmaker frustrated with Google’s Fitbit deal

In a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said his investigative staff was focused on understanding how personalized advertising transactions work. Facebook and Google, in particular, depend on advertising for their revenue.”By understanding these competitive dynamics, we can understand how th…

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Bernard Arnault says LVMH sponsorship of Paris 2024 Olympics is “being discussed”

“The contract you are talking about has not been signed. It is being discussed and, like any discussion, it could end with a signature or not,” said Arnault, answering a shareholder’s question at LVMH’s AGM.The world’s number one luxury group becoming a premium sponsor, alongside five others who have already signed up (BPCE, Orange, EDF, Sanofi and Carrefour), is highly anticipated.คำ…

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Germany backs draft law to protect parcel delivery drivers

The legislation was proposed after police launched nationwide raids on subcontracting delivery firms in February and uncovered numerous cases of social security fraud and drivers working off the books.”Sub-sub-sub contractors are working in many areasคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Wages a…

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Negotiators to push for global digital tax after pandemic, US vote stall talks

The hard-fought talks over how to tax digital behemoths, such as Google and Facebook, are part of the biggest overhaul of international tax rules in a generation, conducted under the stewardship of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Negotiators are due on Thursday and Friday to wrap up months of talks on rewriting cross-border tax rules for the age of digital comme…

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Japan December retail sales up in welcome sign for consumption

The 1.3 percent rise in retail sales in December from a year earlier was more than the median estimate for a 0.8 percent annual increase and followed a 1.4 percent gain in November.Retail sales are a key barometer of the strength of private consumption, which accounts for roughly 60 percent of the Japanese economy.

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PETA addresses slaughterhouse practices at Lululemon

PETA said on Wednesday that it has submitted a shareholder resolution to the company’s board of directors calling for a report on the slaughter methods used to obtain the down used in its jackets. “Lululemon is selling jackets filled with the feathers of birds who are violently killed, betraying the yoga principle of ahimsa, or nonviolence, that it splashes on its shopping bags,” said PE…

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Swedish project to make clothes from air

“If we succeed the technique has the potential to be a game changer within the textile industry,” says Lena-Marie Jensen, coordinator of the project “From Air”.Together with researchers at the University of Borås, Sweden, Smart Textiles is committed to an innovative project aimed to bring a systematic shift in the textile industry using a new methane filtration production methodคำพ…

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PostNL opens new parcel sorting center in Amsterdam

PostNL said that the 6,600-square-metre building will process between 70,000 and 110,000 parcels a day. The new location launched to contribute to the increasing capacity for the sorting and distribution of packages in both the Netherlands and Belgium.The new sorting center has the BREEAM certificate ‘Outstanding’, which indicates that the building is sustainable with minimal environmental impa…

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