Collapsed Bangladesh factory made clothing for U.S. market

[theHandpuppet]

Please note that this info has been confirmed by several sources, some of which I posted yesterday to the pertinent thread on LBN. This is additional information I discovered today. I hope we can eventually find out what labels they produced and which US stores carried them.

From: http://www.cleanclothes.org/news/05-04-12.htm

The Clean Clothes Campaign has received reports that production at the facility had been carried out for large international buyers headquartered in Spain and France. Garments produced at the factory were reportedly exported mainly to the United States, Belgium and Germany. The CCC is working with local organizations to follow-up on these reports and will keep the network updated on any new information as it is received. In the meantime, the CCC calls upon any companies that have worked with this facility to immediately take steps to ensure that rescuers have all the resources needed to speed up their efforts to extract workers who are still alive from the debris. Those involved in the rescue (Army, fire department, and Rapid Action Battalion) told The Daily Star that they have insufficient equipment and experience to deal with an emergency of this magnitude.

For further updates: http://www.thedailystar.net/

This is how the company describes itself on this website http://www.dinfo.biz/Company/Company.asp?Code=220725&EID=0000000467&ID=0002186772

(excerpt)
WE HAVE THE PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES AS MEMBER OF THE ENTERPRISING TEXTILE COMMUNITY OF BANGLADESH UNDER THE NAME AND STYLE OF SPECTRUM SWEATER INDUSTRIES LTD. IT IS LOCATED SOME 35 KMS AWAY FROM DHAKA CITY BY THE SIDE OF NABINAGER KALIAKAIR HIGHWAY AT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE NAMED PALASHBARI, SAVAR, WITH ITS REGISTERED OFFICE AT HOUSE NO. 234, LAKE ROAD, LANE-16, NEW D.O.H.S. MOHAKHALI, DHAKA. THE FACTORY IS HOUSED IN A NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BUILDING ENTIRELY DESIGNED TO MEET ALL UPTO DATE FACILITIES REQUIRED FOR MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS OF HIGH QUALITY ON A FLOOR SPACE COVERING 75000 SFT APPROXIMATES.

[theHandpuppet]

1. Giving a kick in the pants to apathy

Some pertinent links of interest:

http://www.sweatshops.org/
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/
http://www.unitehere.org/
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/
http://www.sweatshops.org/scorecard.html
http://www.greenpages.org/