Interview with President Henning Hammer – A Retrospective
21. June 2018 Henning Hammer, Managing Director of Otto Stadtlander GmbH, has been President of the Bremen Cotton Exchange since June 2016. In accordance with the schedule and statutes, a new President will be elected at the... To the article
CIF Bremen: Adjustments Increase Utility Value
24. May 2018 Interview with Axel Trede, Chairman of the Committee for Price Quotations: Since the Bremen Cotton Futures Market closed in 1971, the Bremen Cotton Exchange has been publishing a price index for cotton that is... To the article
Global Cotton: One University – One Book – One City
18. May 2018 With its proposal “Global Cotton. One university – One book – One city”, the University of Bremen has won this year’s competition One University – One Bookjointly launched by the Stifterverband Deutsche Wissenschaft, the ZEIT... To the article
DNA Tests on Organic Cotton: Opportunities and Limitations
9. May 2018 Interview with Dr Hermann Rüggeberg and Dr Lothar Kruse, Impetus Bioscience: Genetically modified cotton seeds have been marketed since 1995. They contain genes that give them properties such as resistance to pests, e.g. the... To the article
34th International Cotton Conference: Making the Cotton Supply Chain transparent
20. April 2018 Bremen and cotton have been united for more than 200 years. This was confirmed once again, when the 34th International Cotton Conference took place in the historic Town Hall from March 21st to 23rd... To the article
ILO: Child labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest has come to an end
17. April 2018 Monitoring team finds strong political will from central government to end fundamental labour rights’ violations during the 2017 cotton harvest: Child labour is no longer an issue, while forced labour is being systematically addressed.... To the article