It is a setback for Decathlon. While the brand of sports articles stores was still carried by the excitement of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which she had designed the uniform of 45,000 volunteers, here it is on the scene for a Much less positive reason: a three -part survey of the disclose investigation media, including one carried out with the magazine “Cash Investigation” broadcast Thursday, February 6 on France 2, which reveal the back of its supply chain. Read also | “Auchan, Decathlon … The secrets of a golden family”, on France 2: “Cash Investigation” in deep diving in the Mulliez Empire Read later economic flag of the Mulliez family galaxy, the company Decathlon In a few years, in a few years, to compete with the largest equipment manufacturers in the sports championships thanks to an extremely fine mastery of its production costs and major manufacturing volumes in Bangladesh, Vietnam, or China. But also with subcontractors who are not always virtuous. As in China where some of them are suspected of being involved in the forced work of Uingou populations, a majority Muslim Turkish -speaking ethnicity in the Xinjiang. Journalists infiltrated, in hidden camera, in two factories belonging to Qingdao Jifa, the second largest textile supplier in Decathlon in China. They produce its polo shirts, sailors, shorts, some of which at the NBA logo – the American basketball league – and claim the colors of the French brand on their walls. In one of these factories, hence thirty-six million decathlon clothes were released in 2022 according to “Cash Investigation”, a 12-year-old child with the chain of polo shirts. She claims to help her mother, also a worker in the factory, when she is not at school, while the work of the under 16s is prohibited in China. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers Europe still imports products from forced work for Uighurs later to read in the second, located thirty kilometers, tissue stacks used for decathlon products are stored on shelves, whose cotton “can” Coming from the Xinjiang, ”says a business framework whose face is masked. In this region of western China, Beijing is suspected of organizing the forced work of hundreds of thousands of Uighurs to harvest cotton manually. Subsequently contacted by journalists, this framework ensures that Decathlon “is entirely responsible for the choice of its cottons (…) We are only a production plant, we assemble the products”. You have 45.53% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-02-07 06:26:08
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