A survey carried out by Populus has shown that green consumers feel that Primark is the least ethical high street retailer.  This comes as no surprise after the company was outed by the BBC program Panaroma some months ago which found the company have been using manufactures in India that use child labour for embroidery work.The retailer was forced to stop using 3 of its suppliers as the adverse publicity threatened to bring its amazing growth story of the past decade to a shuddering halt.  Results of the Populus survey showed that the Panorama investigation had dented Primark’s image among consumers.

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