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Stop Shein Listing on the FTSE, Workers’ Rights Campaigners Urge

The company, which operates largely from China but is headquartered in Singapore, is rumoured to be planning to release documents outlining plans to list on the London Stock Exchange imminently.
A woman on a beach holds up a phone with the Shein app open.
The campaigners voiced their concerns after the British Fashion Council warned that Shein’s planned flotation on the London Stock Exchange was a “significant concern” to the industry. (Shutterstock)

Workers rights campaigners have called for the UK’s next government to oppose the online fashion business Shein joining the FTSE, arguing that a London listing would be “yet another betrayal to working people everywhere and the planet.”

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