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Primark should learn from labour Gap

just-style.com | by editor@just-style.com () | Mon, Jun 16

Mon, Jun 16 Compare and contrast the stances taken by two fashion retailers in almost identical circumstances after child labour was found in factories making their clothes. Last October, children were discovered in an Indian sub-contracting unit that was embroidering girls’ tops for the GapKi...

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source: monstersandcritics.com

Key companies, including Asda Wal-Mart, the British Tesco, Marks and Spencer and Gap, the clothing retailer, have all agreed in recent months to pull out of Uzbekistan as the evidence of forced child labour in return for meagre salaries mounted. ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Smithfield plant in Ky. to expand, add jobs external link

source: WRCB

TN Smithfield Foods Inc. said this month that it plans to cut 1800 jobs and close six factories amid a slump in the meat industry. The plant will produce smoked meats under the Cumberland Gap and Smithfield brands.

Published Tue, Mar 3

Primark should learn from labour Gap external link

source: just-style.com

It was pointed out to me on an overseas trip last year, in the wake of the Gap allegations, that many retail buyers simply don't understand that it is normal practice for registered factories to put out aspects of production to sub-contractors who run small domestic units.

Published Mon, Jun 16