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H&M Group expands Renewcell partnership to recycle textiles

The H&M Group has reached a multi-year agreement with Renewcell, an innovative Swedish textile recycling company. Renewcell will supply the retail company with thousands of tons of its pioneering virgin quality Circulose fibers, which are made from unusable textile waste. H&M first began working with Renewcell in 2012, and financed the supplier...

20 Nov 2020

People

H&M Group appoints new head of sustainability

Leyla Ertur is taking over as the H&M Group's head of sustainability, effective January 1, 2021. She will take the reins from Anna Gedda, who has led the company's work in sustainability for six years. Gedda will become the H&M Group's new head of steering and strategic planning. Ertur has been with the company since 2000. Over the past two...

9 Nov 2020

Retail

H&M launches COS, Monki, ARKET and more online in Russia

COS, Weekday, Monki, & Other Stories and ARKET are launching ecommerce stores in Russia. The H&M Group-owned brands will each become available online in Russia this fall. The five brands each launched several new ecommerce sites throughout Europe in May of this year, and have sights set on Switzerland shortly after their Russian launches. “...

1 Oct 2020

Retail

& Other Stories debuts vending machine to sell cosmetics

& Other Stories is discovering new ways to connect with consumers in a retail landscape that has been changed to accommodate social distancing measures. The H&M Group-owned brand has launched a new retail experience in Galeries Lafayette: a vending machine. The vending machine will offer four of the brand's best-loved fragrances from its bath...

9 Sep 2020

People

H&M Group appoints new chief technology officer

Alan Boehme has been named the new chief technology officer of the H&M Group. He will be charged with co-leading the company's new Business Tech organization, along with chief product officer Daniel Claesson. Business Tech will strengthen H&M's ability to innovate and develop its business. Boehme takes the chief technology officer role over from...

27 Aug 2020

Fashion

H&M Foundation donates 100,000 dollars to support Beirut

H&M is providing aid to those in need. The retail group's charitable arm, the H&M Foundation, has announced a donation of 100 thousand dollars to the Red Cross to support the organization's relief efforts in Beirut. The donation is in response to the August 4 explosion in the city's port, which was equivalent to a 4.5 magnitude earthquake and...

17 Aug 2020

Fashion

H&M pledges 500,000 dollars to organizations striving for racial justice

The H&M group is donating 500 thousand dollars to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Color of Change and the ACLU. Each organisation fights for justice, economic rights and empowerment of the black community. "The recent killings of more members of the black community in the US leave us devastated and heartbroken. "Their lives, and the...

2 Jun 2020

Fashion

Textile Exchange names H&M no. 1 in organic cotton and certified down

Global non-profit Textile Exchange has ranked the H&M Group as the leader in use of organic cotton and down certified by the Responsible Down Standard, in its 2019 Material Change Insights Report. The H&M Group sources preferred cotton, including organic cotton, recycled cotton and cotton sourced through the Better Cotton Initiative. It is also...

28 May 2020

Fashion

H&M Group signs new UN Global Compact initiative

The H&M Group has joined the UN Global Compact's latest initiative: Uniting Business and Governments to Recover Better. The fashion company is one of about 150 signatories, standing behind a call to action aimed at world governments and policy-makers for climate change. “We have the chance to truly reconstruct a better future, and while doing...

26 May 2020

Retail

H&M Group expands brand websites to new markets as e-commerce offers respite

H&M Group has announced that it is expanding the websites of its Cos, Weekday, Monki, & Other Stories and Arket brands to nine more European markets in May. The websites will be launched in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Croatia from 14 May, followed by Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus from 20 May. It is the latest move in the...

13 May 2020

Fashion

H&M Group provides update on sustainability efforts

H&M Group has published an update on its sustainability efforts, announcing that it has almost reached its goal of using 100 percent recycled or sustainably sourced cotton. According to the Swedish retail giant’s 2019 Sustainability Performance Report, 97 percent of the group's cotton is now either recycled or “sustainably sourced.” It also said...

3 Apr 2020

Fashion

H&M Foundation donates to COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

H&M has donated 500 thousand U.S. dollars to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Initiated to raise money to support prevention, detection and response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Fund has already received su-pport from Facebook and Google. The H&M Foundation's donation will help the World Health Organization's efforts to track and...

16 Mar 2020