This item is the visual presented at the conference From Design to Retail, Introducing Technology into the Textiles Supply Chain, held at Manchester Conference Centre on Wednesday 22nd October 2008.

The household textiles market is moving quickly towards fashion products that complement apparel. This creates many issues for traditional retailers who are used to product ranges with longer life cycles. The focus of the applied research reported in this paper concerns the potential of...

Research paper. This article was originally published in the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing.

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, published by and copyright Emerald Publishing Group.

Disputes the view that the clothing industry is in terminal decline, without denying the competitive pressures it faces, particularly through globalisation. Describes the work of the CAPITB Trust in indentifying a typology of successful clothing industry companies, resulting in the publication...