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British fashion mogul Harold Tillman has purchased luxury coat maker Aquascutum, returning a heritage clothing line to British hands. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Tillman said the combined annual revenue of Aquascutum and Tillman's current luxury clothing line, Jaeger, would reach about $495 million a year, The Times of London reported Tuesday. The Japanese firm Renown had named YGM Trading as the preferred bidder for Aquascutum. The deal announced Tuesday gives YGM rights...

ATLANTA, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Roxul Inc., the North American operation of the world's largest producer of stone wool insulation, Rockwool International, has introduced its globally successful residential insulation products to the United States for the first time. Both Roxul(R) Safe'n'Sound(TM), an acoustical insulation for interior walls, and Roxul(R) ComfortBatt(R), a superior thermal insulation for exterior walls, are fire resistant, water repellant and made from stone....

ECO-A-WEAR(TM) BY TEIJIN NEW YORK, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- It's 2009, and leading retailers in the US, UK and Japan are closely looking at a new range of recycled yarns from Japan's Teijin Fibers Ltd, for the creation of high quality fabrics and the production of suits and trousers. One of the unique recycled yarns that Teijin Fibers produces is ECOPET(R), which is made from recycled plastic bottles. Having been created through a one-of-a-kind process using ECOPET(R), this new fabric...

BEIJING, March 5 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Himfr.com (http://www.himfr.com/hot-products/ ), one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, analyzes new carpet trend in 2009 (http://www.chinaqualitycrafts.com/buy-fashion_carpet/ ). While traditional carpet designs put the emphasis on luxury, glamour and style, the hottest trend currently is Nordic, a style made popular with its simplicity, geometrical modern design, and convenience in...

BEIJING, Oct. 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Himfr.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, reports that as consumers' awareness of environmental issues grows, they are more willing to buy environmentally-conscious goods. (http://www.qualitydress.com/ ) With awareness of environmental issues rising around the world, sales of eco-friendly products and services, including clothing and apparel, has doubled since 2007, reaching $500 billion...

The North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA) announced the results of a recent survey of its members' use of pre- and post-consumer recycled materials in their insulation products during 2006/2007. The survey includes data from both U.S. and Canadian manufacturing facilities. According to the survey, U.S. manufacturers used almost 4.2 billion pounds of recycled materials in the production of residential, commercial, industrial, and air handling thermal and acoustical...

By HOPWOOD, Malcolm Wine, wool, rabbit, retail and stardom. Sounds like a recipe for success. Well it is especially if the recipe includes the meat that goes with the merino wool, a glass of pinot noir and a rack of rabbit as an appetiser. The five ingredients are all part of a day's work at Bendigo Station. I watched Country Calendar (Television One, Saturday) because it's as far removed from the Olympics as I could find. However, they both have something in common: excellence....

Record milk payouts for milk powder will become a thing of the past, if an Agriculture and Forestry Ministry forecast released yesterday is accurate. This season the dairy payout will average $6.90 per kg of milksolids across all dairy companies - $1 less than Fonterra's record $7.90 last season - and then drop back to $6 for the next few years, the ministry's economists say in their latest "situation and outlook" report. After a 25 per cent jump to $10 billion in the year just ended,...

By MORGAN, Jon AGRICULTURAL exports, the engine room of the economy, are expected to cruise to new heights in the next five years, according to the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry. Dairying will lead the way, reaching a new peak this production year, then remain buoyant under strong international demand. The ministry's economists say in their latest "situation and outlook" report that beef and lamb returns will bounce back from the lows of the past year, that wool prices will gradually...

By MORGAN, Jon in Wellington `The trouble is, we've got some months that it is 600,000 and one month last year which had 4.3 million.' Mike Petersen A RADICAL change to the design of sheep farms is to be put to farmers by Meat & Wool New Zealand with the aim of providing year-round lambs to overseas markets. In a year in which the industry has heard one big idea after another, this could be the biggest. If it was to work perfectly, it would see closer cooperation between farmers, in which...