Sourcing Journal Radio
Sourcing Journal Radio is thought leadership brought to life. Each podcast episode provides apparel industry executives with a platform from which to showcase their personalities and share their perspectives on a range of engaging topics, enabling listeners to consider new points of view and plot their next steps.
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Rivet 50: Alberto Candiani
Alberto Candiani, the global manager of Candiani Denim, the famed 80-year-old Italian denim mill, shares how he's pushing his family's business into a new era of sustainability, innovation and transparency.
26 min
152
How Apparel Can Deliver the Right Fit Every Time
In this week’s episode, we discuss the challenges of getting fit right, the consequences when brands and retailers don’t, and how the industry can help consumers find products that work for them.
26 min
153
The Powerhouse Trends Powering Retail Today: O...
John Kernan, managing director for retail and consumer brands for Cowen and Company, talks off-price, emerging direct-to-consumer brands and the continued success of athleisure.
34 min
154
The Making of a Consumer Brand in Today's Climate
Avani Patel of the Ember Company shares what it takes to launch a new brand in the current consumer climate, how to identify white space in the market and what new companies bring to the retail landscape that many established players can learn from.
27 min
155
Source Verified
This episode focuses on traceability in the cotton supply with David Greenstein of Himatsingka, one the largest cotton wholesalers in the United States, as well as cotton farmer and chairman of the California Cotton Growers Association, Cannon Michael.
24 min
156
American Made
In this week’s episode, we discuss made in the U.S.A. and innovation with Dov Charney, founder of Los Angeles Apparel, and Ram Sareen, CEO of Tukatech, a provider of fashion technology solutions.
38 min
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Innovators & Imitators
This episode highlights what makes a disruptor a disruptor in a sea of new upstart brands from the perspective of Pano Anthos, founder and managing director of XRC Labs, an innovation accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail and consumer goods sectors.
40 min
158
Fact or Fiction
This episode focuses on the futility of setting sustainability goals without including traceability, how doing good can also be good for the bottom line and the technology that promises to get us there.
35 min
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Cotton Calculations
This Sourcing Journal podcast episode focuses on the dominant factors impacting cotton supply and demand, how the U.S. stacks up against other cotton growing nations and the advances taking place on the sustainability front.
17 min
160
Sole Mates
How digitizing operations allows for better collaboration and relationship building between brands and retailers and their suppliers
31 min
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Lifting the Fog
The importance of transparency in the supply chain, how brands and retailers are going about it today and how it relates to other key industry initiatives like sustainability.
38 min
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Instant Gratification
This episode of Sourcing Journal radio focuses on on-demand manufacturing, how it works, the current capabilities and limitations, and why it’s a necessity today.
45 min
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Data Dilemma
This episode of Sourcing Journal Radio focuses on data and how apparel and footwear companies can use it from both the product development and allotment side as well as from a marketing and personalization standpoint.
34 min
164
Speed Bump
This Sourcing Journal Radio episode focuses on speed to market and how the industry’s pre-occupation with emulating fast fashion could be doing more damage than good.
38 min