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 [...]

Marvellous Mars

There is great news from Mars, in response to the March on Mars campaign organised by Stop The Traffik.  They have promised to make their GLOBAL product range traffik free by 2020, starting with Galaxy bars in the UK and Ireland next year. This is fantastic news, well done Mars. Now it is time for [...]

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 [...]

United Biscuits Respond

United Biscuits have responded to the letter I sent them (inspired by that on the Stop the Traffik website) to ask about how they source the chocolate for their products.  In the Netherlands they have already promised to source all their chocolate from fair trade, and hence human traffik free, sources but they are yet [...]

Fat Face – blacklist or not?

I wrote to Fat Face over a month ago and have heard nothing back from them, so they are nominally on my blacklist although I still hold out hope that they will reply.  Fat Face are members of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) and have an ethical policy available on their website so it would seem [...]

Stop the Traffik please United Biscuits

As part of their world’s largest chocolate fondue party,  Stop the Traffik are asking people to write to United Biscuits to ask them to start using traffik free chocolate in all their products.  Stop the Traffik have a letter that you can send to United Biscuits that can be found at http://www.stopthetraffik.org/chocolatedownloads/fondue_campaign_letter.doc The main text [...]

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 [...]