No Triumph for workers

Here is a response from the luxury lingerie manufacturers Triumph when I wrote to them (through the Clean Clothes Campaign) to find out about job losses at their factories in the Philippines and Thailand. Triumph is severely affected by the global recession and the general downturn in consumer demand and orders for its products. As [...]

Primark promise to…

I have not written my own letter to Primark yet, but I have sent several e-mails generated by other organisations (such as Labour behind the Label) to them and signed petitions.  I recently received a lenthy response from Primark which is available on the ‘Primark’ page listed on the left – I would no doubt receive [...]

Letter to H&M

Today I have written to H&M to ask them about how they treat their workers in developing countries that make the fashion we buy. H&M was not featured in the Lets Clean up Fashion report by Labour behind the Label in 2008, however they were included in the 2007 report where they were labelled as ‘disappointingly [...]

Gap leave a Gap

It seems Gap have declined to respond to my letter sent several months ago to them. These are the questions that I asked them, and which they did not want to answer: What percentage of the retail price of a garment goes to the worker who made it? How do you determine how much to [...]

Primark encouraging third world working conditions in the UK

The BBC has broken the story of Primark and third world conditions in its factories here in the UK.  Full coverage is on their website: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7824291.stm Peacocks are also apparently involved with the unethical supplier TNS Knitwear where illegal employees are paid just £3.50 an hour or less! Do not buy from Primark!

Fat Face reply at last

Over two months has passed since I wrote to Fat Face to find out about the ethics of their business and they have at last replied.  It is a reasonably good letter, in some part standard reply, using words that have surely been copied and pasted from elsewhere; and in part a specific response to [...]

French Connection – Another Code of Conduct

French Connection have responded to my letter very quickly and so perhaps are re-thinking their ways and want to give more priority within their business to ethical trade – or perhaps they just have a standard letter they print off for everyone who asks about it!  Judge for yourself on the ‘French Conenction’ page under [...]

Two in one week – letter to French Connection

French Connection have a few words at the bottom of a page in the investor section of their website about Ethical Trading.  It is clearly not an issue they take seriously and feel their customers are concerned with.  They are not signed up with the ETI (Ethical Trading Initiative) and the Lets Clean Up Fashion [...]

Another letter at last – to Fat Face

I have at last found time to write another letter to a High Street retailer to encourage them and find out more about their ethical policy.  This time it was the turn of Fat Face. Fat Face are members of ETI (the Ethical Trading Initiative) and have a practical and realistic ethical policy on their [...]

Letter to Dorothy Perkins

I have just printed off my letter to Dorothy Perkins asking them about their commitment to ethical trade and the treatment of their workers in developing countries.  On their website there is no ethical policy and they are not members of ETI (the Ethical Trading Initiative) which is disappointing.  In the ‘Lets Clean up Fashion’ [...]