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Tragedy in Bangladesh
The Associated Press
The collapse of a building that housed garment factories near Bangladesh’s capital, a tragedy that claimed at least 275 victims Wednesday, is renewing attention on the unsafe conditions in the country’s $20 billion clothing industry that supplies retailers around the world. Here’s a look at the factories in the Rana Plaza building and the global retailers they say they worked for. THE FACTORIES — Ether Tex was located on the fifth floor. Its website, now offline, says its 530 workers made up to 960,000 pieces of clothing a year. It claimed to have a passing grade for safety and other business standards from SOCAM, a group that audits garment factories on behalf of European fashion company C&A. The company said its customers include retail giant Wal-Mart. — New Wave is a group of three companies that says it makes shirts, pants and other garments for U.S., Canadian and European retailers. New Wave Bottoms was on the 2nd floor, and New Wave Style occupied the sixth and seventh floors. The New Wave website lists 27 retailers as its main customers. The list includes Spain’s Mango, Dress Barn of the U.S., Canada’s The Children’s Place, and the Asian arm of Benetton based in Hong Kong. — Phantom Apparels operated a factory called Phantom-TAC in conjunction with Spain’s Textile Audit Company on the fourth floor. The Phantom-TAC website says it is “committed to reaching a high standard of working conditions.” It claimed to have a comprehensive auditing system that allowed it to “monitor and analyze daily the conditions in our factory.” The 20,000-square-foot factory
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Kevin Frayer / AP photo Bangladeshis watch the rescue operations at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Thursday, the death toll reached at least 275 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete.
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