ETI in the media - 2007

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2007

Analysis: How buying practices impact workers’ rights, [PDF, 201kb]
Article, Just-Style, 2007.

UK: Fashion firms urged to add ethics to buying practices, [PDF, 175kb]
Article, Just-Style, 2007.

'Minister backs UK retail's ethical stance'
Retail Week, 20 September 2007 [link to external site]
www.retail-week.com/News/minister_backs_uk_retails_ethical_stance.html

'Retailers face call to inform consumers about ethics'
The Independent newspaper, 19 September 2007 [link to external site]
news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2976716.ece

'While progress has been made…'
Letter to The Guardian by ETI Director Dan Rees, 17 September 2007 [link to external site]
www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2170551,00.html

UK retailers given mixed report on third world factory conditions, [PDF, 8kb]
Article, The Retail Bulletin. (July 2007).

'Who wouldn't be outraged…'
Letter to The Guardian by ETI Director Dan Rees, 18 July 2007 [link to external site]
www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2128657,00.html

'Our members have improved 3.3 million workers' lives'
Letter from ETI Director Dan Rees for the 'Response' section of The Guardian newspaper, 5 July 2007 [link to external site]
business.guardian.co.uk/greenbusiness/story/0,,2118893,00.html

Ethical Trading - how UK retailers can use their buying power to make a difference... and benefit, [PDF, 779kb]
Article, British Retail Consortium Solutions. (June 2007).

New British PM urged to source ethically
Ecotextile news, June 2007 [link to external site]
http://www.ecotextile.com/archive_news_details.php?id=611

Ethical driving force [PDF, 238kb]
Article, Company Clothing. (April 2007).

'Surveys of conditions in foreign workplaces easily fooled'
The Times newspaper, 24 March 2007 [link to external site]
business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article1560566.ece

'Result: MKOne forced to drop Burma clothing'
The Observer, 18 March 2007 [link to external site]
observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2036353,00.html

'Levi's suspended from ethical group in living wage row'
The Times newspaper, 20 January 2007 [link to external site]
business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article1294788.ece

'Buyers must build ethical costs into FOB'
Drapers Magazine, 1 January 2007 [link to external site]
www.drapersonline.com/news/buyers_must_build_ethical_costs_into_fob.html

 

 

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Contact: Julia Hawkins, Writer and Media Relations Manager
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 1463  
email: press@eti.org.uk.

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