07 January 2022, Mumbai:

Garment Mantra Lifestyle Ltd has set to set up a new centralized integrated facility in Surat, Gujarat to ramp up its production & supply base to consolidate capacity & brand visibility in the western region of India besides improving the company's revenue over the next two years.

Chairman & MD of Garment Mantra Lifestyle alluded, Prem Aggarwal, "We are happy to announce the launch of our new warehouse facility in Surat, Gujarat (India). On the back of this new facility, we are working on our strive to engage more partners from the region, with optimized and economical fulfillment solutions.

Garment Mantra is positioned as a value fashion retailer with a visible presence in tier ii & iii markets of the country.

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17 January 2022, Mumbai:

Aditya Birla Apparel & Retail Ltd (ABFRL), India's top fashion company, has suffered a significant data breach, with over 5.4 million email addresses allegedly stolen from the Aditya Birla Group-owned platform and shared online.

In December of last year, 5,470,063 ABRFL accounts were allegedly breached and ransomed. Financial and transaction records, as well as 21GB of ABFRL invoices, are claimed to be included in the hacked database. ShinyHunters, a hacking collective, has made the supposed database public.

The incident was confirmed by ABFRL, which said it is investigating an information security breach involving unauthorised access to its e-commerce database. There has been no operational or business impact, according to the company's representative.

"As a precautionary move, the company has reset all client passwords and enabled OTP-based authentication, as well as taken further steps to secure access to customer and employee information," he stated. Cyber security specialist Rajshekhar Rajaharia has also tweeted about it and shared details.

According to sources, the claimed database contains sensitive customer data such as names, phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, order histories, credit card information, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.

Employee information, including payment information, religion, and marital status, is reported to have been exposed in the data breach. Have I Been Pwned, a data breach tracking website informed some impacted customers of an ABFRL account breach?

The ransom demand made by the hacker gang was purportedly turned down, and the material was then made public on a famous hacking forum.

ShinyHunters got access to the ABFRL database for several weeks, according to a report by RestorePrivacy.

According to the allegation, the information reportedly compromised included complete names, e-mail addresses, birth dates, physical addresses, gender, age, marital status, pay, religion, and more for ABFRL employees.

Server logs and vulnerability reports for ABFRL Indian apparel labels American Eagle, Pantaloons, Forever21, The Collective, Van Heusen, Peter England, Planet Fashion, and Shantanu & Nikhil are among the information.

It is also reported to contain ABFRL client data, hundreds of thousands of invoices, as well as the company's website source code and server statistics. "We tried to get in touch with ABFRL," Gadgets 360 said.

They dispatched a negotiator, but he was only stalling (the offer was more than reasonable for a 'US $ 45-billion company').

So we decided to release everything for you guys, including their well-known divisions like Pantaloons.com and Jaypore.com," the hackers wrote in an 11 January post. The specific sum required for payment, however, is uncertain.

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15 January 2022, Mumbai:

JCPenney, a leading US retailer, has hired two executives to strengthen its e-commerce and omnichannel efforts. Sharmeelee Bala has been appointed to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO).

She will be in charge of the company's information technology (IT) organisation as well as worldwide technological platforms that power its shops, operational centres, supply chain, and corporate activities.

She will be in charge of developing solutions that connect JCPenney's physical assets with the company's growing digital presence. Bala was previously Interim Head of Product Engineering at GapTech, where she earned a master's degree in engineering technology from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

She has worked with Walmart for over 20 years in a variety of technical and leadership jobs with growing responsibilities.

She has worked with Walmart for over 20 years in a variety of technical and leadership jobs with growing responsibilities. Katie Mullen has been named Chief Digital and Transformation Officer (CDO) at JCPenney, where she will oversee the expansion of the e-commerce business, which includes jcp.com, as JCPenney reimagines how customers interact with the retailer regardless of when, where, or how they purchase.

Mullen will also be in charge of the company's transformation programme and enterprise strategy.

"JCPenney is a destination for best-in-class talents like Sharmeelee and Katie," said Marc Rosen, CEO of GAP.

"With a healthy balance sheet and distinctive goods and services supported by our famous American brand, JCPenney is a destination for best-in-class talent like Sharmeelee and Katie." As we continue on our digital journey and develop the business via technology and creativity, Sharmeelee and Katie will be great partners."

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14 January 2022, Mumbai:

Indian clothing and accessories brand Kazo has been granted the World Sustainability Organisation’s sustainable fashion eco label and will take part in a showcase at Milan Fashion Week 2022.

As part of the showcase, Kazo’s clothing and accessories will be modelled by models from the WSO Models Agency along with other WSO certified brands, the WSO announced in a press release.

In 2021, the WSO also held a showcase at Milan Fashion Week to promote eight brands. Milan Fashion Week launched on January 14 with a mixture of online an offline events. Although some brands have pulled out of the schedule due to the risk of Covid-19, the event itself is still going ahead in lone with local regulations.

Through its certification, Kazo products will display the Friends of the Earth Sustainable Fashion eco-label.

In order to receive the certification, the WSO must verify compliance with strict sustainability requirements, including the protection of wild fauna and flora as well as sustainable water, energy, and waste management and socially responsible practices.

The WSO is an international organisation which works to promote sustainability by certifying eco-friendly brands. The WSO’s certification programme is designed as a tool to enable consumers to identify verified sustainable products to shop sustainably.

Kazo retails a range of eco-friendly ready-to-wear, handbags, and accessories from its dedicated e-commerce store. The brand’s managing director Deepak Aggarwal opened the first Kazo store in Delhi in 2007, according to its website.

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06 January 2022, Mumbai:

Direct-to-consumer innerwear, loungewear and activewear brand Freecultr has raised $5 million led by Sixth Sense Ventures as it looks to make a comeback amid a rush of activity in the consumer brand sector.

Founded in 2011, Freecultur started life as an apparel ecommerce venture and raised $4 million from Sequoia Capital India in the same year. In 2019, it pivoted to the intimate clothing market with a focus on innerwear, loungewear and activewear for men and women.

None of the original founders of Freecultr—Sandeep Singh, Rajesh Narkar, Harish Bahl and Sujal Shah— are a part of the company.

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14 January 2022, Mumbai:

Nonprofit organization Remake’s second annual accountability report naming the worst performance in sustainability has been published.

The report lists some of the least accountable brands in 2021 which includes Foreever 21, Ross, Global Brands TJX, Cros, Inc, Edinburgh Woolen Mill, the Children’s Place, etc. Most of these brands scored negative points on a possible 150-point scale, as per a report by Women’s Wear Daily.

Remake consulted over a dozen industry experts across human rights, employment, fashion and law for this report. It also relied on publicly available disclosures. Rating 60 fashion companies across fast fashion, luxury, children’s wear, the nonprofit also evaluated the performance of smaller brands like Christy Dawn, Nudie Jeans and Nisolo. The brands were evaluated for their transparency, wages and well-being, commercial practices, raw materials, environmental justice and climate change, governance, diversity and inclusion. Remake also ranked the companies for their total product output and the impact they had on the environment.

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