Non-profit organisation Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and PDS Venture, the innovation and investment arm of PDS Group, have launched a new funding programme aimed at scaling fashion innovation. The new ‘Trailblazer Programme’ is looking to identify and support fashion’s “most promising” early-stage innovators working to accelerate the...
13 Mar 2024
Poeticgem Group, a retail design and sourcing solutions company, has acquired the brand IP of womenswear and occasionwear brand Little Mistress to expand its portfolio. Under the terms of this agreement, Poeticgem, part of the PDS Group, a global fashion infrastructure company with end-to-end, customised solutions across the fashion value chain,...
20 Sept 2023
German fashion and lifestyle brand Gerry Weber International AG has entered into an exclusive strategic global sourcing partnership with Dusseldorf-based Techno Design GmbH, a subsidiary of global fashion infrastructure company PDS. As part of the partnership, Techno Design will take over the existing sourcing operations of Gerry Weber from 1st...
15 May 2023
Once considered a cheap sourcing location with unsafe factories by some international buyers, Bangladesh has come a long way in just ten short years: After the deadly fire at Tazreen Fashions in 2012 and the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in 2013, Bangladesh sourcing seemed at an all-time low, its reputation tarnished as a manufacturing...
30 Nov 2022