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 [...]

Debenhams go on the Blacklist

I have added Debenhams to my blacklist as they have failed to respond to the letter I wrote to them enquiring about their ethical trading standards.  I am a little surprised as they are a member of ETI (Ethical Trading Initiative) and have a supplier code of conduct.  However, it seems I am not the only [...]

No reply from Coast

Coast have not responded to my letter and so I have concluded that ethical trading and producing fashion in a fair way is not an issue that concerns them.  They are not members of ETI (Ethical trading Initiative) and neither do they have an ethical policy on their website.  I have put them on my blacklist! [...]

Letter to Debenhams

Debenhams have an influential positoin on the British High Street as they not only sell their own clothing ranges, but also those of other designers such as: Jasper Conran, John Rocha, Betty Jackson, Julien MacDonald, Matthew Williamson, Pearce II Fionda, Ben De Lisi, Pip, Hackett and Ted Baker amongst others. I have written to them [...]

Letter to Coast

I have written to Coast about their ethical practices, they do not have an ethical policy on their website, nor are they signed up with the Ethical Trading Initiative.  In the ‘Lets Clean up Fashion 2007′ report written by Labour behind the Label they are in the category of having ‘nothing to show’.  There is a [...]

Letter to Boots

I have written to Boots about their ethical practices, they are rather odd in that they are signed up with ETI (The Ethical trading Initiative) yet make no mention of an ethical policy on their website – you’d think they’d want to make more of the work they are doing with ETI.  So I’ve told [...]

Stop the Traffick

Another group worth supporting and finding out more about is Stop the Traffick.  They are a a global movement against the trafficking of people, some of whom are trafficked to work in sweat shops producing clothes for the British High Street. See their website: www.stopthetraffik.org for more information. See my page entitled ‘High Street’ that shows [...]

Response Received from Next

Last week I wrote to Next and asked them some questions about their ethical trading practices.  I wanted to find out how much importance they gave to the rights of their workers abroad in places like India.  Based on research I had done on the web (see my ‘High Street’ page) it already seemed that they [...]

Primark on Panorama

Did you see the BBC Panorama’s programme about Primark yesterday?  It is still available on BBC iPlayer if you didn’t.  It was worth watching at it showed convincing evidence of the conditions that workers in India endure in order to have an income.  £1 in every £10 spent on clothes in the UK is spent in [...]

Letter to Asda/George Clothing

In this letter I have asked pretty much the same questions as those I have already written to Next & Adams.  I have the feeling that Asda are trying to tick all the right boxes when it comes to ethical trading but aren’t really all that committed to it.  They seem to want to appear to [...]