FEBRUARY 2008… Iran opens its space centre and launches a rocket into space, while Space Shuttle Atlantis delivers the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station; Mohammed Al Fayed gives evidence to the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales; the British government nationalises the Northern Rock bank; Lincolnshire suffers an earthquake, which is felt throughout most of Britain; Kosovo declares independence from Serbia; and Cuban president, Fidel Castro announces his resignation and hands power to his brother Raúl Castro. Meanwhile in the imprint industry…
Anvil wins a Communicative Products Award for an organic T-shirt packaged as a tomato; Tesco bans Uzbek cotton; UK Leisurewear holds its first Trade Show; Jim Nicol, of TheMagicTouch, explains why transfer prints on jeans are a burgeoning sales opportunity; Vernon Bradshaw of VAL wonders whether a march by ‘Bobbies in baseball caps’ could herald the ‘return of the baseball cap’; we talk to EarthPositive – the first apparel brand to carry the Carbon Trust’s new Carbon Reduction Label; and we present all the winners from the 2007 Images Garment Decoration Competition.
