Dec 24 (Reuters) - Australian clothes retailer Cotton On Group is investigating its relationship wi
Dec 24 (Reuters) – Australian clothes retailer Cotton On Group is investigating its relationship with a Chinese language printing agency suspected of utilizing pressured jail labour and which was lately suspended as a provider by Tesco, ABC Information reported.
The British grocery store large suspended Zhejiang Yunguang Printing following a media report {that a} buyer had discovered a message inside a Christmas card saying it had been packed by international prisoners who have been victims of pressured labour.
The ABC quoted a Cotton On assertion as saying its “provider code of conduct features a zero-tolerance method to any type of fashionable slavery, together with pressured labour.”
Cotton On didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
Tesco PLC TSCO.L stated the Christmas playing cards have been produced on the Zhejiang Yunguang Printing manufacturing unit, about 100 km (60 miles) from Shanghai Qingpu jail. It stated it was shocked by the allegations and is investigating the matter.
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