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...company called Fair Indigo: Style with a Conscience hopes to do for apparel workers what fair-trade coffee has done for farmers. Launched last September with a catalog (made from postconsumer recycled paper, of course) and a website, Fair Indigo is one of the first mainstream fair-trade apparel brands in the U.S., on the heels of several recent European start-ups, most notably Britain's People Tree and Gossypium...
...seemed like a no-brainer to Fair Indigo CEO Bill Bass, a former Army paratrooper raised in Knoxville, Tenn., who worked for the U.S. Department of Education before entering the business sector. "It's hard for me to feel right about not paying people fairly," he says. "But most apparel companies are focused on cutting the cost of production and see the people in their factories as commodities and replaceable parts." In 2005, Bass and three other executives from Lands' End, where he had been working as e-commerce chief, decided to leave the company and see if they could...
...Harvard men’s hockey team ended its regular season in the Bright Hockey Center in style Saturday evening, downing league rival Cornell, 3-1, in front of a raucous sellout crowd that seemed to boast as much carnelian red apparel as crimson. “I don’t think there need to be a lot of great pre-game speeches when Cornell is on the menu,” smiled Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91, whose squad swept Colgate and the Big Red in the last weekend before the ECAC tournament...
Still, capitalizing on all this new spending isn't automatic or even easy in a country of 1.3 billion. "I don't think that it has ever been more difficult to go national than in China," says William Ghitis, president of global apparel at Invista, the maker of Lycra. One hurdle is the logistical nightmare created by China's sheer size. Motorola has tripled the number of its sales outlets, to 30,000, in just the past 18 months to penetrate deeper into interior markets. Chapman-Banks says it often takes weeks to get new phones to these outposts. Then...
...stamp on a hardware line he claims will give aspiring gamers an edge. He and his associates will claim about $5 million in royalties for 2006. "I want to create a Fatal1ty brand that will last," says Wendel. He's talking not just mouse pads and motherboards but even apparel. His website touts hoodies embroidered with the Fatal1ty label as the "ultimate gaming accessory for the ultimate pro gamer...