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Ethical Trade: The Business Case – two short films for retailers and suppliers
The ETI has just produced two really useful new films that set out the business case for ethical trade, for suppliers and retailers. We all know that pictures, preferably moving pictures, are crucial in getting people to relate to workers and their lives and we welcome these new films as a useful resource for [...]
Following the news stories last week and speculation in the Ethical Trading community, the BBC is set to show its investigation into the ethical standards of Primark’s supply chain this Monday at 9pm. A potentially controversial trailer is available on YouTube:
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The footage shows [...]
At last, a sensible and nuanced programme on the challenges of ethical trade in the garment industry. Radio 4’s ‘In Business‘ programme ‘On the rack’ (broadcast on 12th June, repeated 15th June) is worth a second hearing – a 30-minute whistle-stop tour setting out just how real the problems are, and just how [...]
GAP’s child labour expose of last week has focussed minds on the problem of subcontracting; when suppliers put some, or all, of the manufacturing out to a sub-supplier without the knowledge or consent of the customer. Yesterday’s Observer reported that GAP are looking at a twin approach to tackle both child labour and illicit [...]
We are in eager anticipation of what will be said by the Gap in their presentation at the Ethical Supply Chain Summit in Amsterdam tomorrow, following the allegations in The Observer and on The BBC News today.A double page spread in The Observer and exclusive video footage on the BBC detailed the use of [...]
Last year Labour behind the Label released a report entitled Let’s Clean up Fashion, the report interrogated eleven high street retailers’ claims about their ethical trading programmes and concluded that none of the companies was doing enough. On Friday, Labour behind the Label released their 2007 update. This year’s report focuses on three issues: [...]