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Levi’s announces management changes to accelerate growth

Global denim brand Levi Strauss and Co., has announced a number of management changes to “streamline decision-making” and consolidate accountability for core business growth drivers, as it looks to accelerate direct-to-consumer growth. These changes include creating a consolidated product, innovation and supply chain organisation, a new...

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Levi’s sets ambitious new climate action strategy

Denim apparel giant Levi’s has announced a set of ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions across its owned-and-operated facilities and global supply chain by 2025 in a new climate action strategy. What it is calling “aggressive targets” in a press statement, the climate action strategy is aimed at slashing the environmental impact of the...

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Levi's puts on fashion event during Coachella festival

As the new mecca for festival fashion, Coachella has become an "it" spot for many fashion moguls, bloggers, and influencers. With this newfound information, iconic brands such as Levi's are taking advantage of the emerging trend. Levi's recently hosted an event at the Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs in order to bring out A-list celebrities...

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Levi Strauss & Co announces new denim finishing innovation technique

Levi Strauss & Co. just announced a new platform for their iconic jeans. Using advanced technology, the company just launched Project F.L.X. (future-led executive) as a new operating model for denim finishing. The new innovation digitizes the design and development of denim finishing, reinventing a new way to produce jeans. Project F.L.X. also...

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Levi Strauss releases guide to improve factory workers’ health

The Levi Strauss Foundation has released a guidebook to help garment factories improve workers’ health as part of their Worker Well-being Program. Written in partnership with Meridian Group International, Inc. under the USAID-funded Evidence Project, the ‘Managing Health at the Workplace: A Guidebook’ aims to be a resource and tool for factory...

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Levi's names 10 entrepreneurs to fellowship initiative

London - Levi Strauss and Co has named 10 entrepreneurs to Collaboratory, its annual fellowship programme for “socially and environmentally conscious entrepreneurs” who are looking to create a more sustainable apparel industry. More than 100 applicants from ten countries applied to take part in the first-of-its-kind fellowship programme, and the...

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Levi Strauss & Co. makes bid for Einstein jacket

Levi Strauss & Co. recently just acquired a piece of history. The blue jean retail giant just bought Albert Einstein's iconic leather brown jacket at an auction house. The acquisition for the legendary ‘Cossack’ jacket was for 146,744 dollars. Levi’s made the winning bid for the jacket at Christie’s in London. The jacket, fittingly, was...

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Levi's acquires iconic Einstein leather jacket

Although Levi Strauss & Co. is commonly known for its creation of American blue jean, the company’s history spans further than that. Additionally, Levi’s was responsible for an iconic staple in one of the world’s greatest geniuses: Albert Einstein. Although Einstein was known more for his academia instead of fashion, he was known for wearing a...

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Levi Strauss launches global fellowship programme

Denim brand Levi Strauss and Co has announced the launch of its LS&Co. Collaboratory, an annual fellowship programme for “socially and environmentally conscious entrepreneurs” who are looking to create a more sustainable apparel industry. This first-of-its-kind fellowship programme will have a curriculum designed by the Aspen Institute Business...

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Levi's partners with MLB for Dodgers collection

Los Angeles - For the first time, premium denim brand Levi’s is partnering with a sports team for a collection. The San Francisco-based company is teaming with MLB for a collection that celebrates the Los Angeles’ Dodgers. This is Levi’s first time branching out its apparel into sportswear offerings for the Los Angeles team. Now, catering to MLB...

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Levi’s partners with Evrnu to launch sustainable jeans

Levi Strauss and Co has partnered with textile technology startup Evrnu to create the world’s first pair of jeans made from recycled post-consumer cotton waste, using five discarded cotton T-shirts to create a pair of Levi’s 511 jeans. The initiative, part of Levi’s sustainability strategy, has seen the denim brand using a new, patent-pending...

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Levi's and Goodwill launch donation-by-mail clothes program

The San Francisco-based denim company is turning to Goodwill for a good cause. For the holiday season, Levi’s has partnered with the organization is order to give back through donating clothes. The program works through Levi’s and Docker’s e-commerce sites. When customers buy from either company online, the boxes they receive will double as...