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How Blockchain Is Changing Luxury Fashion, Following the Journey from Farm to Boutique – Help Me Move? I’ll Pay You in Instagram Likes – Courtroom Glasses Have Already Taken Off With Gen X – Paul Newman Rolex Daytonas, Found in a Desk, Could Sell for Millions
These four features we, the Editorial Team of TextileFuture, propose this time for your personal reading. All of them were previously published in the Wall Street Journal Magazine.
The first feature is from Loro Piana (Italy) and is entitled “How Blockchain is Changing Luxury Fashion, Following the Journey from Farm to Boutique”
The second item bears the title “Help Me Move? I’ll Pay You in Instagram Likes” and is based upon a true story of an influencer in New York.
The third feature is entitled “Courtroom Glasses Have Already Taken Off With Gen X”, it is a fashion item.
The fourth item is entitled “Paul Newman Rolex Daytonas, Found in a Desk, Could Sell for Millions”, and is geared around Rolex Watches.
We hope you will return next Tuesday for the new edition of TextileFuture’s Newsletter.
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The Editorial Team of TextileFuture
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How Blockchain is Changing Luxury Fashion, Following the Journey from Farm to Boutique
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As influencer marketing permeates more industries, moving companies get in on the action: ‘The devil works hard but @roadwaymoving influencer team works harder.’
By Sara Ashley O’Brien from the Wall Street Journal Magazine Photography by Brian Finke for WSJ. Magazine
March 30, 2023 1:37 pm ET
Ross Sapir knows what’s inside the homes of thousands of influencers. That’s because his company has moved their production equipment, squiggly mirrors and other social-media-bait décor—“crazy s—t, like a 14-foot dining table that weighs a thousand pounds”—from Point A to Point B.
With its fleet of purple, pink and blue trucks wrapped in cheeky taglines (including “We’ll be careful with your kid’s toys. And your adult toys”), Mr. Sapir’s Roadway Moving has become a social-media star in its own right as influencers share testimonials about the company on Instagram and TikTok in exchange for free or discounted moves.
The ubiquity of the company’s social-media marketing has become something of a running joke: “What is the hold Roadway Moving has on every influencer,” tweeted one user. “The devil works hard but @roadwaymoving influencer team works harder,” another wrote. Roadway has even become a character in a popular Reddit forum where followers post snarky comments about the over-the-top lives of some content creators.
Once primarily the domain of industries like beauty, fashion and wellness, influencer marketing has taken a turn for the banal. Insurance agencies, tax specialists and other services are turning to people who are building careers on creating content posted to platforms like TikTok and Instagram. In some cases, in exchange for social-media promotion, influencers may receive services free or at a discount. For businesses, the payoff is the exposure to new audiences and the influencer’s branding sheen.
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Piece of Cake Moving & Storage, a New York City company founded in December 2017 with magenta vans that could stop traffic, said it has been working with influencers for the past three years. Bellhop, based in Chattanooga, Tenn., started its influencer-marketing program in 2019.
At Roadway, Mr. Sapir, the founder and CEO, once obsessed over the reviews platform Yelp, where customer feedback can take a negative turn. “I used to sweat. If I got a negative review, I had, like, a biological reaction,” he said. These days, at his 15-year-old company, he said he’s eyeing TikTok: “You want to look relevant for today’s age.”
To determine whether an influencer like Isabel Tan gets a discounted or free move, companies take into account follower count, the distance of the move, how much stuff needs to fit in the truck and more
On a recent Friday morning, Isabel Tan waited for Roadway’s movers to arrive at her Manhattan one-bedroom to pack up her kitchen, her shoe closet, her bedroom and all of her furniture. It was the third year in a row that Ms. Tan used the company’s moving services, free of charge, as a barter agreement in exchange for content. (She left a tip.
“I don’t want it to just be like, ‘Hey, look at them pack,’” said Ms. Tan, a 27-year-old beauty, fashion and lifestyle influencer known to her nearly 300,000 Instagram followers as @prettyfrowns. She posts five to 10 ephemeral stories a day, and about one post a day to her Instagram grid. “There needs to be more of a story.
Her apartment, filled with colorful taper candles, books by the bestselling authors Sally Rooney, Colleen Hoover and Brené Brown, a Stanley tumbler and a bucketful of Venus et Fleur roses, was telling a very Instagram-friendly story on its own. But Ms. Tan’s hope was to capture the feeling of being ushered through a major life change: moving in with her partner. Ahead of the move, she prompted her followers to submit any advice about moving in together.
To determine whether an influencer gets a discounted or free move, companies take into account such factors as their follower count, how engaged those followers are, the distance of the move, and how much stuff must fit in the truck. “We look at the complexity of the move, the time of year, the goals we have in each market, the influencer’s engagement and that their demographic aligns with Roadway’s target demo at the time,” a company spokeswoman said.
Roadway Moving has worked with fashion influencers, reality stars, musicians and internet-famous pets to promote its business.
Isabel Tan, known to her followers as @prettyfrowns, has used the company for three moves.
The deal between Roadway and Ms. Tan is a standard company-influencer arrangement: Roadway covers the cost of her move, and she chronicles the process on Instagram.
Influencer moves make up a small fraction of business for most companies—for Roadway, it’s about 3% to 5%.
But thanks to deals with influencers like Ms. Tan, the brand has become ubiquitous on social media with a flood of both sponsored posts and ones from paying customers.
For Ms. Tan, the goal is twofold. Roadway gets her belongings from Point A to Point B, while she documents a life event for her followers: moving in with her partner.
“I don’t want it to just be like, ‘Hey, look at them pack,’” she said. “There needs to be more of a story.”
Influencers are given a personalized link and discount code for followers to get 10% off local moves and 5% off long-distance moves. Whether their followers interact with and use the information is part of how Roadway tracks the success of partnerships. (Some influencers request not to offer the code because it doesn’t jive with their personal brand, the Roadway spokeswoman said.)
Piece of Cake said its standard brief asks influencers to post static photos with its trucks visible, as well as a video testimonial or diary taken on moving day. The company recently partnered with the New York Knicks; players and coaches are eligible for free or discounted moves, and Piece of Cake offers a blanket discount to Madison Square Garden staff.
“Originally my move should’ve been about $4,000 and I paid $1,200,” said Teo Marcella, a model and influencer with nearly 65,000 followers on Instagram. In exchange for a discount from Roadway on her move from Los Angeles to Brooklyn, she shared an Instagram post, two stories and a Google review. The company said it asks for reviews from all its customers.
“I think I still got out with a great deal, and hopefully it benefited both of us,” Ms. Marcella said.
Founded in 2008, Roadway Moving is based in New York. It has branches in five major cities and operates nationally, with 93 trucks and 27 tractor-trailers in its fleet. Mr. Sapir says the company had USD 50 million in revenue last year.
Tabitha Swatosh, a TikToker with 13.4 million followers, said most of her brand deals pay in the five-figure range. Though Roadway doesn’t pay cash, she’s continued to move with the company—three times to date. She said her Roadway-related posts have resulted in requests from other home-related brands that want to work with her.
The best part is “having other people pack up my things while I just get to sit and vlog,” Ms. Swatosh said.
Eva Chen, vice president of fashion partnerships at Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc., expressed a similar sentiment to her 2.3 million Instagram followers this month. “Honestly it’s chaotic but the @roadwaymoving team is making things so much calmer I’m literally able to sit and…make content LOL (But also stress),” read one of her many stories about her move to a new neighborhood in Manhattan. Ms. Chen declined to comment, and Roadway Moving declined to comment on the details of her move.
Roadway Moving made its first big influencer splash when it partnered with Arielle Charnas, founder of the clothing company Something Navy, who has more than a million followers on Instagram, for a move in 2017. “It was all over Instagram,” said Mr. Sapir, who added that her move was discounted. Through a representative, Ms. Charnas declined to comment.
Using a moving service frees influencers up to sit back and vlog the experience.
Many influencers have been influenced by other content-creators to use Roadway. Ms. Tan reached out to the company in 2020 after seeing someone she followed post about it. Likewise, Annie Jorgensen, who vied for love on national television in the “Joe Millionaire” reboot and now works as a freelance digital-marketing strategist, said she messaged the company about helping her move after seeing social-media buzz from influencers she knew. Eric Bigger, a fitness trainer and an alum of the “Bachelor” reality-TV show franchise, saw another fitness coach post about the company and reached out for help relocating from one Los Angeles apartment to the next. And Mila Thomas, a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Nicki Minaj and Sheryl Lee Ralph, reached out for her recent move. “An influencer popped up on my feed, and I saw that they were moving them,” she said.
Some are finding they don’t need a reality-TV resume or a mega-following to land a deal. Chelsea Reagan moved with Piece of Cake two years ago from Manhattan to Brooklyn as a regular customer, before amassing tens of thousands of followers on TikTok. The move cost her around $700, she said. When she moved again this past February back to Manhattan, she was given a 50% discount off a quoted move price of just under USD 1000, in exchange for several social-media posts and a Yelp review.
“I’ve heard stories of influencers getting special treatment,” said Ms. Reagan, who works in marketing for a soda brand. “The experience was essentially the same.”
Influencers are given a personalized link and discount code for followers to get 10% off local moves and 5% off long-distance moves. Whether their followers interact with and use the information is part of how Roadway tracks the success of partnerships. (Some influencers request not to offer the code because it doesn’t jive with their personal brand, the Roadway spokeswoman said.)
Founded in 2008, Roadway Moving is based in New York. It has branches in five major cities and operates nationally, with 93 trucks and 27 tractor-trailers in its fleet. Mr. Sapir says the company had USD 50 million in revenue last year.
Tabitha Swatosh, a TikToker with 13.4 million followers, said most of her brand deals pay in the five-figure range. Though Roadway doesn’t pay cash, she’s continued to move with the company—three times to date. She said her Roadway-related posts have resulted in requests from other home-related brands that want to work with her.
The best part is “having other people pack up my things while I just get to sit and vlog,” Ms. Swatosh said.
Eva Chen, vice president of fashion partnerships at Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc., expressed a similar sentiment to her 2.3 million Instagram followers this month. “Honestly it’s chaotic but the @roadwaymoving team is making things so much calmer I’m literally able to sit and…make content LOL (But also stress),” read one of her many stories about her move to a new neighborhood in Manhattan. Ms. Chen declined to comment, and Roadway Moving declined to comment on the details of her move.
Roadway Moving made its first big influencer splash when it partnered with Arielle Charnas, founder of the clothing company Something Navy, who has more than a million followers on Instagram, for a move in 2017. “It was all over Instagram,” said Mr. Sapir, who added that her move was discounted. Through a representative, Ms. Charnas declined to comment.
Using a moving service frees influencers up to sit back and vlog the experience.
Many influencers have been influenced by other content-creators to use Roadway. Ms. Tan reached out to the company in 2020 after seeing someone she followed post about it. Likewise, Annie Jorgensen, who vied for love on national television in the “Joe Millionaire” reboot and now works as a freelance digital-marketing strategist, said she messaged the company about helping her move after seeing social-media buzz from influencers she knew. Eric Bigger, a fitness trainer and an alum of the “Bachelor” reality-TV show franchise, saw another fitness coach post about the company and reached out for help relocating from one Los Angeles apartment to the next. And Mila Thomas, a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Nicki Minaj and Sheryl Lee Ralph, reached out for her recent move. “An influencer popped up on my feed, and I saw that they were moving them,” she said.
Some are finding they don’t need a reality-TV resume or a mega-following to land a deal. Chelsea Reagan moved with Piece of Cake two years ago from Manhattan to Brooklyn as a regular customer, before amassing tens of thousands of followers on TikTok. The move cost her around $700, she said. When she moved again this past February back to Manhattan, she was given a 50% discount off a quoted move price of just under $1,000, in exchange for several social-media posts and a Yelp review.
“I’ve heard stories of influencers getting special treatment,” said Ms. Reagan, who works in marketing for a soda brand. “The experience was essentially the same.”
Appeared in the April 1, 2023, print edition as ‘Help Me Move? I’ll Pay in Instagram Likes’.
Here starts the third item:
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Courtroom Glasses Have Already Taken Off With Gen X
Aviator frames, with their gritty ’70s vibe and distinctive shape, are popular with stylish older women looking to project a tough but cool look.
By Fiorella Valdesolo from the Wall Street Journal Magazine
March 29, 2023
The courtroom dialogue in the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial, in which she’s denying fault in a collision with a retired optometrist on the slopes in 2019, has spun Twitter gold: “This case is whiter than Mitt Romney at a mayo convention in Utah during a snowstorm,” one tweet said in response to a neuroradiology specialist’s testimony that the alleged victim’s injuries prevented him from enjoying wine tasting. But, as is often true when female celebrities find themselves in a courtroom setting, the outfits of the trial’s famous defendant have sparked as much chatter as the proceedings themselves. Take, for instance, Paltrow’s choice of eyewear: gold, wire-framed aviator-style glasses. “Gwyneth Paltrow looks like she’s on trial in 1987 for hiring a hitman to kill her husband,” read one widely circulated tweet about her frames. Jeffrey Dahmer and Adam Driver’s portrayal of Maurizio Gucci have also been invoked.
The most iconic aviator frames are by Ray-Ban, and they date back to the ’30s, when they were originally created for U.S. military pilots as something they could safely wear during flight, says Daniel Alder, vice president of marketing for Ray-Ban North America. The costumey impact of the classic aviator is undeniable—for example, you can’t dress up as Napoleon Dynamite without a pair.
Yet aviators’ appeal, particularly among a certain subset of high-profile, Gen-X women, is undeniable. Consider Carrie Bradshaw’s readers: On the original Sex and the City, a 30-something Carrie wears slim, oval black frames, while on And Just Like That…, the years have passed, and the glasses have evolved to a sleek, champagne-gold, drop-aviator shape (specifically, the Meryl by Mykita). “It’s really this 50-something Gen-X woman that we’re seeing [the aviator] on the most,” says Tim Parr, founder and CEO of eyewear company Caddis. (Paltrow’s courtroom frames appear to be the Caddis Hooper style.) “There’s this momentum that’s happening with the aviator style,” Parr says, “and we continue to design more of them because of the success we’re seeing.”
At New York’s Silver Lining Opticians, which stocks both modern and deadstock styles from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, co-founder Jordan Silver confirms that more women, 40-something and beyond, are drawn to aviators, which have also been spotted on Katie Couric, Demi Moore, Kerry Washington, Jenna Lyons, Jennifer Aniston and Tracee Ellis Ross. Silver says part of the appeal is comfort. “There’s a wide vision, they’re sporty and they’re a lot more comfortable than small glasses,” says Silver, adding that, unlike with plastic frames, the aviator’s nose pads can be adjusted to make the bridge fit.
While the aviator may not necessarily be a youthful look—some would argue the shape actually drags the face down—fans don’t seem to care. “They’re not trying to hide their age,” adds Silver, who says many aviator customers often get them with transitional lenses, which darken in bright light. When Matthew McConaughey, a fan of tinted aviators, was asked about them in a 2021 Good Morning America interview, he said, “They’re just shady enough.”
One major selling point is that the aviator doesn’t abide by prescribed gender norms. “It’s a really gender-neutral frame, and it can look kind of tough, too,” says Silver. It takes a certain confidence to pull off. “There’s an empowerment to the look,” says Parr. “You can’t ignore the fact that there’s a nostalgic component too.” Ali MacGraw, Sophia Loren and, perhaps most famously, Gloria Steinem have all embraced the frame at some point in their style history. (Steinem long wore Ray-Ban Shooters, and when Rose Byrne and Julianne Moore played her on screen, they did too.)
Indeed, that throwback appeal is the main reason Stacy London, longtime stylist and founder of the brand State of Menopause, counts herself an avid aviator wearer. “The oversized version feels so reminiscent to me of the 1970s and Gloria Steinem. Can wearing aviators feel like a little piece of revolution? I don’t know, but I’d sure like to think so,” she says. “The aviator really flatters most face shapes. And who doesn’t love versatility with a dash of eternal cool?”
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Paul Newman Rolex Daytonas, Found in a Desk, Could Sell for Millions
Sotheby’s revealed its June auction of the late actor’s effects will now feature two
Paul Newman’s Rolex reference 16520 ‘Zenith’ Daytona is one of two watches found at his estate that are heading to auction in June.Photo: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images
March 28, 2023
Years ago, Nell Newman was rooting around for a pencil in the Connecticut home office of her late father, the actor Paul Newman, when she unearthed two horological treasures: a pair of Rolex Daytona watches worn by Newman in his latter years.
“There they were with his driver’s license,” said Ms. Newman. “They were just in a box on his desk.”
Now the pair of chronographs is destined to cause a commotion in the watch world when they’re put up for auction in June at Sotheby’s, part of the sale of more than 300 mementos from the estate of Newman and his wife, actress Joanne Woodward.
Sotheby’s has estimated USD 500000 to USD 1 million per watch, though watch experts say they’re likely to fetch more than a million dollars each.
One of the most coveted provenances in horology is having been strapped to Newman’s wrist.
“We can tie vintage-watch collecting, vintage-Rolex collecting to him,” said Andrew Shear, a watch dealer in New York City. “The Hustler” actor persistently wore Rolexes throughout his lifetime. He is most closely associated with the Daytona model; his late-1960s version with an “exotic” dial sold for nearly USD 18 million in 2017.
Mr. Shear speculated that simply because Newman used these watches to track his lap speed or ensure he wasn’t late for dinner, it adds hundreds of thousands of dollars to their value.
Were he still alive, the Hollywood icon may balk at such princely prices. “He did not put his watches on a pedestal,” said Ms. Newman. For her father, watches were “all about keeping time, being on time and timing race cars.”
She recalled that he had the “quirky habit” of betting houseguests a quarter that his Rolex kept better time than whatever was on their wrist. He’d call a “What time is it?” hotline, hold up the phone to prove his watch was more accurate and collect his reward.
The first timepiece, a 1993 Rolex reference 16520 “Zenith” Daytona with a pearly white dial, was awarded to Newman in 1995 when his racing team won the 24 Hours of Daytona Race in Daytona Beach, Fla. At 70, Newman was the oldest person to win that race, and the watch is reverently inscribed: “Rolex at Daytona 24 Paul Newman Rolex Motorsports Man of the Year 1995”.
The championship ticker has come up for auction before. In 1999, Newman donated it to the “Famous Faces” sale held by Antiquorum and Tourneau. Other marquee benefactors included Elton John, Madonna and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Newman’s steel watch hammered at
USD 39000, which he directed to his charity “The Hole in the Wall Gang,” a camp for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. (The actor, the founder of Newman’s Own, was also known for his philanthropic ventures.)
While that is a relatively meager sum when stacked up against today’s celebrity-watch sales, Newman’s Rolex notched the highest sales price in the auction.
That ’93 Daytona meant so much to Newman that either he or someone in his life later repurchased the watch. So low-key was Newman about his watches that his daughter wasn’t previously aware of the buyback tale. “That was news to me,” she said, “And I thought, what a delightful story.”
The second Rolex is a later model—a 2006 white-gold reference 116519 Daytona on a black leather strap. The watch, at auction for the first time, is one of three known models given to the blue-eyed actor by Ms. Woodward, and bears the inscription “Drive Very Slowly Joanne” on the caseback.
A variation of that gentle chide is inscribed on all the known Rolexes the actress gave to Newman—a reminder to the auto enthusiast to always keep his eyes on the track.
Photos from 2008 show Newman wore the white-gold watch at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut during his final racing laps. He died that year.
Recent hammer prices indicate that the watch world has Newman mania. In 2020, Phillips auction house sold a Rolex reference 6263 watch given to Newman by his wife, with the inscription “Drive slowly, Joanne,” for nearly $5.5 million. The sale of Newman’s Rolex Daytona reference 6239 for $17.8 million three years prior remains the high-water mark for his watches.
The actor received the watch from his wife around the late ’60s, coinciding with the start of his time-consuming side-gig behind the steering wheel. (Newman was said to have become a checkered-flag fiend after starring in 1969’s race-car drama “Winning” alongside Ms. Woodward.) As The Wall Street Journal has previously reported, Ms. Woodward likely purchased it for around $300 at Tiffany’s. On its caseback is—you guessed it—the inscription “Drive Carefully, Me.”
Rolex introduced the model in 1963 and stopped production by the early ’70s, with about 14,000 made in total. Of that, only a couple thousand carried the idiosyncratic black, white and red exotic dial of Newman’s model. But photos of Newman brandishing this hard-to-find watch sent collectors on the hunt—sending prices to the ceiling. Eventually, watch aficionados dubbed this scarce style the “Paul Newman” Daytona.
Today, even exotic-dial Daytonas that never touched Newman’s wrist sell for well into the six figures.
Newsletter of last Week
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Berlin
What is it like to live and work in Berlin? https://textile-future.com/archives/107965
Companies
Changes to the Board of Directors and resignation of the CEO of Calida Holding AG https://textile-future.com/archives/107863
Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR Lonza: Publishes Invitation to the 2023 Annual General Meeting and 2022 Annual and Sustainability Reports https://textile-future.com/archives/107875
Namibia Critical Metals Commences Trading on OTCQB https://textile-future.com/archives/107941
Lonza Completes Clinical and Commercial Drug Product Manufacturing Line in Visp (CH) https://textile-future.com/archives/107953
Lonza Launches Share Buyback Programme of up to CHF 2 Billion : https://textile-future.com/archives/108096
Oerlikon: A Journey of Sustainable Innovation – Excellent Progress in Sustainability Targets1
75 years of VLIESELINE®: The must-have for all professional tailors and sewing enthusiasts celebrates its jubilee https://textile-future.com/archives/108059
At today’s 95th Ordinary General Meeting of Forbo Holding Ltd in Zug, the shareholders approved all the proposals of the Board of Directors by a clear majority. A dividend of CHF 23 per share will be paid out as of April 6, 2023 https://textile-future.com/archives/108076
Cotton
USDA: Peru – Cotton Update https://textile-future.com/archives/108157
Data
Swiss Police crime statistics 2022 – Burglaries at pre-pandemic level https://textile-future.com/archives/107860
EU Oil import dependency down to 91.7 % in 202 https://textile-future.com/archives/107866
EU Housing, food & transport: 61 % of households’ budgets : https://textile-future.com/archives/107881
EU Crude oil imports and prices: changes in 2022 https://textile-future.com/archives/107920
Publication of Swiss state financial statements for 2022 https://textile-future.com/archives/108033
EU’s population projected to drop by 6 % by 2100 https://textile-future.com/archives/108043
Hourly labour costs ranged from EUR 8 to EUR 51 in the EU https://textile-future.com/archives/108052
Orders to leave the EU and returns up in Q4 2022 https://textile-future.com/archives/108080
Highest ever EU trade deficit recorded in 2022 https://textile-future.com/archives/108087
Swiss retail trade turnover rose by 3.4 % in February 2023 https://textile-future.com/archives/108113
Economy
East Asia and Pacific Regional Growth to Accelerate as China Rebounds https://textile-future.com/archives/108169
EU
EU Commission launches call for 100 Regional Innovation Valleys to bolster local and regional innovation https://textile-future.com/archives/107928
EU Commission proposes more transparency and less red tape for companies to improve business environment in the EU https://textile-future.com/archives/108000
Speech by President von der Leyen on EU-China relations to the Mercator Institute for China Studies and the European Policy Centre https://textile-future.com/archives/108038
Events
Time to open the curtains: Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles returns next week https://textile-future.com/archives/107792
ITMA 2023 in Milan (Italy) is nearing! https://textile-future.com/archives/107832
Personalities
Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder and Author of Moore’s Law, Dies at 94 https://textile-future.com/archives/107767
DNA From Beethoven’s Hair Unlocks Medical and Family Secrets https://textile-future.com/archives/107796
The Board of Directors of UBS Group AG (UBS) announces today (March 29, 2023) that it has named Sergio P. Ermotti as its new Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 5, 2023 https://textile-future.com/archives/107947
COLLEGE MEETING: The European Commission appoints a new Director for its Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations https://textile-future.com/archives/107984
COLLEGE MEETING: The European Commission appoints a new President of the Board of the European Innovation Council COLLEGE MEETING: The European Commission appoints a new President of the Board of the European Innovation Council https://textile-future.com/archives/107990
Sience
PSI: How football-shaped molecules occur in the universe https://textile-future.com/archives/107892
Empa Young Scientist Fellowship: When disorder helps solve our energy problems https://textile-future.com/archives/107900
Fish diversity documented in Switzerland’s rivers https://textile-future.com/archives/107906
Sustainability
“Advancing Circularity”: Lenzing presents its online Sustainability Report 2022 https://textile-future.com/archives/108023
Switzerland
UN Security Council: Swiss President Berset takes part in debate on countering terrorism and protecting the civilian population https://textile-future.com/archives/107934
Swiss Federal Council adjusts interest rates for COVID-19 credits https://textile-future.com/archives/108004
Swiss Federal Council sets out details of relief measures in earmarked expenditure https://textile-future.com/archives/108009
Ukraine: Switzerland to implement tenth package of sanctions https://textile-future.com/archives/108018
Swiss Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter receives Austrian Minister of Finance, Magnus Brunner https://textile-future.com/archives/108106
Switzerland: Combating designer drugs: 11 individual substances added to the Narcotics List https://textile-future.com/archives/108118
USA
From Rockets to Ball Bearings, Pentagon Struggles to Feed War Machine : https://textile-future.com/archives/107747
Trump, Escalating Attacks, Raises Specter of Violence if He Is Charged https://textile-future.com/archives/107776
Free Speech (or Not) at Stanford https://textile-future.com/archives/107783
First Citizens Acquires Much of Failed Silicon Valley Bank https://textile-future.com/archives/107975
A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter https://textile-future.com/archives/108124
Trump Prepares to Surrender in New York as Police Brace for Protests https://textile-future.com/archives/108206
WIPO
International Conference on Intellectual Property and Development: IP and Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture (April 24, 2023) https://textile-future.com/archives/107994
WTO
First Fish Week concludes with “illuminating” discussion of negotiating objectives https://textile-future.com/archives/107759
WTO: Trade Facilitation Agreement has increased trade by over USD 230 billion, new study finds https://textile-future.com/archives/107910
Food security: The Key to unlocking agriculture negotiations at WTO ? https://textile-future.com/archives/107958
WTO: Joint Initiative on E-Commerce – E-commerce negotiators advance work, discuss development and data issues https://textile-future.com/archives/108166