Factory Floor New Look Case Study – Productivity Incentives in India

New Look has been working with Impactt on a series of projects developing innovative solutions for sustainably improving working conditions in the supply chain. The projects demonstrate that improving working conditions can result in more productive and profitable factories, as well as happier and better-rewarded workers.
We are currently working with New Look, one of [...]

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ETI Ten: The promising start of a very long journey

On 23rd October, nearly 450 brands, retailers, NGOs, trade unions and representatives of government gathered together to celebrate the first decade of the Ethical Trading Initiative and to discuss the key challenges that lie ahead. The conference room was filled with celebratory air; but strongly evident was the collective feeling that while we have [...]

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Let’s Clean up Fashion Report 2008: Ambitious plans, but little progress

Labour behind the Label (LBL) has published its annual ‘Let’s Clean up Fashion’ report on the labour standards of high street fashion retailers. Like previous reports it makes fascinating reading.
This year’s report focuses on retailers’ efforts on Living Wages. This is a crucial area for ethical trade and labour standards, particularly in the era [...]

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Labour behind the Label – Let’s Clean up Fashion 2007 report

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: [...]

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