CSR: Mango, the textile group, redefines social responsibility policy after a building in Bangladesh collapsed where there was a clothing workshop allegedly involved with western businesses

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29 April 2013 à 09h39

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In the Rana Plaza commercial complex which collapsed on April 24 around Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing nearly 400 people, there was a clothing workshop that allegedly works with the Spanish textile group. Mango is ready to take its part of responsibility and is trying to redefine its course of action and CSR as a global company. (Ref. 130285)

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Information released by the company shows that the Rana Plaza workshop wasn’t an ‘official’ supplier of the brand. A Mango spokesperson told the AFP (French press agency) that the company was looking for new suppliers and had called on the workshop’s services at least 4 times since January and ordered about 25,000 pieces.

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