Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 08:01am on 11 Jan 2024,Thursday Business
BBC Panorama has revealed that fast fashion company Boohoo attached "Made in the UK" labels to potentially thousands of garments that were actually produced in South Asia. Plain t-shirts and hoodies had their original tags removed at Boohoo's flagship Leicester factory before being relabeled, a misrepresentation the company blames on misinterpreting rules. Up to 1 in 250 of Boohoo’s global supply from January to October 2023 could be affected, amounting to hundreds of thousands of wrongly-labeled items. Boohoo claims it was an isolated incident of human error and says steps were taken to prevent recurrence, though the BBC reports the firm is considering closing the site altogether amidst the controversy.
