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Workers supplying Shein are still working excessive hours, more than a year after the ultra-fast-fashion giant
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With consumers tightening their belts in China, the battle between global fast fashion brands and local high street giants has intensified.
The company, which is growing rapidly around the world by using social media to promote its goods, recorded sales of about $45 billion last year and a profit of more than $2 billion.
Fast-fashion giant Shein will spend $15 million upgrading hundreds of factories after an investigation found that two of its suppliers’ warehouses are flaunting local working-hour regulations.
Sarah Kent is Chief Sustainability Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in London and drives BoF's coverage of critical environmental and labour issues.
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