China’s Zijin Mining to buy Canada’s Continental Gold for $1bn

State-backed Zijin’s offer for Continental, announced on Monday, aims to secure Continental Gold’s flagship Buritica gold project in Colombia.”Zijin doesn’t have any experience in Colombia, and we have obviously had some incidents in the past,” Continental Chief Financial Officer Paul Begin told Reuters.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

“But if a major security incident happened at any project, it would be considered a material adverse change and they would have an out if they wanted to,” he said.Four employees of Colombia-focused Continental were killed in a single month last year, one near Buritica and the others at a different exploration site.Zijin’s cash offer of C$5.50 per…

Fashion innovator Fashion for Good partners with Stella McCartney

The partnership between the innovation platform and luxury label will officially kick off during the exhibition at the Fashion for Good Experience, an interactive technology-driven museum that opens on 5 October in Amsterdam. The museum will exhibit a dress designed by Stella McCartney and dyed by Colorifix, using engineered microorganisms.Colorifix is a start-up that participated in the second edition of the Fashion for Good-Plug and Play Accelerator Programme. The company’s dying method reduces the environmental impact of the dying process.

The dress is made from organic cotton and was inspired by the Stella McCartney Summer 2018 collection. A similar dress, also created in collaboration with Colorifix, has been on view at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the m…

EU takes on tech giants with tough rules to curb their power

The European Commission said its Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act are a modern rulebook aimed at fostering innovation, growth and competitiveness and provide users with better and reliable online services.The proposed rules are targeted at online gatekeepers, companies which control data and access to their platform on which thousands of companies rely on to do business, and also large online platforms.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

Gatekeepers, defined as companies with an entrenched position, with a signifant impact on the EU market and operate a core platform service, could be online search engines, social networking services, cloud computing services and adverti…

Google links with Stella McCartney, Textile Exchange to boost sustainable sourcing

 

It worked with McCartney “to understand the industry’s needs and to test the platform” and other brands and retailers such as Adidas, Allbirds, H&M Group and VF Corporation, have also been involved pre-releaseคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. It’s now inviting others to register an interest in using it.The tool is intended to help brands understand the environmental issues involved in sourcing the raw materials they use and enable them to make more eco-friendly decisions.

In a blog post, the digital giant said the fashion industry is “one of the largest contributors to the global climate and ecolo…

H&M and IKEA link up on large-scale study within recycled textiles

The company is using a larger number of recycled materials in its products as one of the key elements in the group’s ambition to become 100% circular and renewable and said that “working strategically to reach our sustainability ambitions, using science and partnerships,” will help it get there.But it’s aware that simply diving into textiles recycling could cause problems of its own as “the chemical content of collected pre-owned textiles are unknown, so to ensure the safe reuse of materials in the circular system, we must ensure good chemical management.”

Its large-scale study with Ikea, looking at chemical content in post-consumer textile recycling, has been under way since last year, it has just said. “Recycled materials are key elements in a circular economy. …

Europe gets Trump -wake-up call-, but can it step up-

The day before, one of the EU’s leaders had confided a contingency plan of “crossing ourselves and praying”. The day after, as they pledged to work with Trump, a senior EU diplomat summed up their dilemma.”Since we have refused to really think through this scenario, we have a list of questions that need to be answered, but almost everything is a big unknown,” the envoy told Reuters.

For some, Europe must now step up and take more responsibility, both for its own security and the wider world, if the entrepreneur makes good on campaign talk of limiting U.S. defence commitments and other engagements abroad.Trade relations, climate change, Russia and tackling Islamic State are all areas where Europe may have to forge its own path if a Trump-led Washington pulls back from the global st…

October sees department stores upturn as cool weather clothing hits the spot

Meanwhile online sales as a proportion of all retailing increased to 19.2% in October 2019, from the 19% reported in September 2019. And the importance of e-sales can be see by the ONS saying that “non-store retailing provided the largest contribution to the year-on-year growth, [while] non-food stores were the smallest contributors to growth.”But what about that rise in department store sales? The ONS said department stores were up 2% month-on-month by volume and up 0.2% year-on-year. That contrasted with textile, clothing and footwear stores that were down 1% on the month, although they were up 2.6% on the year, which is good in the straightened circumstances of UK fashion retail at the moment.

Department stores actually saw their biggest month-on-month growth since May 2018…

Top jewellery CEOs say lab-grown diamonds are fashion, not luxury

Synthetic diamonds have grown in popularity in recent years as a cheaper and arguably more ethical alternative to natural diamonds. Even De Beers, the world’s largest diamond company, entered the synthetic diamond market in 2018 after having pledged for years never to sell man-made diamonds.Lab-grown diamonds possess the same chemical composition and physical characteristics as natural diamonds but unlike mined diamonds, limitless quantities can be produced. A tiny piece of carbon is put into a plasma reactor at very high heat and gradually the tiny crystal grows. After several hundreds of hours, it is big enough to be cut into a polished stone.

“For me, synthetic diamonds have little to do with the world of luxury,” Tiffany boss Alessandro Bogliolo said in an interview at …