4.4 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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John Lyttle, chief executive of Boohoo, tells Sean Farrington about the company's massive growth and future expansion plans. He says the company doesn't make throwaway fashion and is taking measures to tackle climate change. He also discusses the recent controversy around allegations of mistreatment of staff at some of its suppliers in Leicester.
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0:52.1 | Boohoo's become one of the biggest names in UK retail, fashion retail in |
0:56.1 | particular, of course, focused pretty much entirely online. It recently bought big name |
1:01.6 | retailers like Debenhams and Dorothy Perkins as well, but brands only, not the stores. |
1:07.2 | Its fast growth hasn't been without problems, though. It's faced issues around accusations for workers at suppliers' factories and also what it's doing to tackle climate change itself. |
1:17.2 | I got to see how it's investing millions of pounds in automation to make it quicker to get its products to customers. |
1:23.8 | Warehouse is pretty vast, surrounded by machinery moving products, from shelves to packaging. |
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