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Case study on Primark sustainability, ethics, supply chain.
A closer look at Primark’s stance on responsible fashion Primark: “Sustainability is not a marketing campaign for us” A closer look at Primark’s stance on responsible fashion Primark: “Sustainability is not a marketing campaign for us” A closer look at Primark’s stance on responsible fashion Primark: “Sustainability is not a marketing campaign...
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Inditex's AGM in detail: 10 growth pillars, Marta Ortega's role and shop assistants' intervention
Madrid – Looking beyond the institutional message with which a particularly presidential Marta Ortega opened Inditex's 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM), we now delve into the significant issues raised before the Spanish group's investors. During the meeting, as was widely expected, all items on the agenda were approved in their entirety. The...
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Case studies in the rise of ESG disputes: Greenwashing and social washing in focus
This week, it was announced that the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), together with four consumers, is filing a lawsuit against clothing brand Levi Strauss (Levi's). The case revolves around alleged misleading sustainability claims and labour rights violations at a factory in Turkey where Levi's manufactures. More than 400 workers lost their jobs...
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Asos refutes claims of poor working conditions
Asos has stepped forward and firmly refuted allegations made by MP Owen Smith concerning poor working conditions in its warehouse in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The Labour leadership candidate penned a letter to MP Ian Wright, chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee, calling for a parliamentary inquiry into Asos warehouse,...
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Zara’s 50th birthday becomes day of protest for Inditex employees
To mark the 50th anniversary of Zara, employees from various fashion chains owned by the Spanish Zara parent company Inditex took to the streets in La Coruña, Spain. They protested against what they see as a “gradual” reduction of their labour rights by the company's management. The group is publicly accused of deliberately disadvantaging sales...
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Working conditions: Dior not guilty, but to pay two million euros
Rome - The Italian Competition Authority on Wednesday ordered luxury brand Dior to pay two million euros in aid to “victims of exploitation” as part of an investigation into the working conditions of its subcontractors, but ruled out any “infraction”. An investigation had been opened in July 2024 by the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) “...
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Mango uses digital tools to assess and improve working conditions in its supply chain
Spanish group Mango has announced a strategic partnership with Quizrr, a Swedish educational technology (EdTech) platform specialising in digital training on sustainability and human rights in supply chains. The agreement aims to strengthen sustainability and the protection of labour rights throughout the company's global production network,...
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Bargain hunting weighs on consumer conscience
One doesn’t have to hunt high and low on any high street or the internet to find them: T-shirts for three, four or maybe five euros. But many consumers do not snap up bargains as readily as before. Reports about often inhumane working conditions in Asia’s apparel factories have shakenquite a few consumers. Almost nine out of ten consumers said...
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Working conditions in Cambodia's garment factories improving
The latest status report by the International Labour Organisation's Better Factories Cambodia (ILO-BFC) programme, produced in June and published last week, found that compliance levels with labour law standards at the reviewed factories have slightly gone up. The improvements include positive changes in regards to various issues like severance...
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Uniqlo criticized for harsh working conditions in Chinese factories
Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo is under fire after Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) accused their suppliers in China of submitting employees to harsh working conditions. The organization previously investigated working conditions at two of the retailer's suppliers:...
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