Petri Alava says his firm can make sustainable fibres on a commercial scale Petri Alava used to wear pressed suits and leather shoes to work, managing large corporations selling everything from ...

In 1954 Finnish entrepreneur Esko Laiho founded a clothing business that produced wool hats. On his sales trips across the country, he noticed that there was a clear demand for uniform production as ...

Finnish clothing manufacturer Virke on Wednesday announced plans to close one of its factories with the loss of around 50 jobs. The company cited a 30 per cent slump in sales in the key German market ...

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Finnish consumers are buying more clothes but spending less on their purchases, according to the Finnish Fashion and Sports Commerce Association (TMA). Clothing sales volumes grew a few percent in ...

Petri Alava used to wear pressed suits and leather shoes to work, managing large corporations selling everything from magazines to gardening equipment. Now he runs a Finnish start-up where socks are ...