Fast Fashion | Fire Sale | 1

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s 1987 and Jane Shepherdson, a star buyer for retail chain Topshop, is using her keen ability to predict trends to put the company on the map as the go-to shopping destination for young British women. But when the company is bought by prickly business tycoon Philip Green, all of her hard work is at risk.

Meanwhile, Swedish company H&M opens its first store in the US, and a groundbreaking collaboration with Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld pushes the limits of what fast fashion can be.

Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/businesswars.

Support us by supporting our sponsors!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Business Wars Add Free on Amazon Music.
0:04.6	Download the app today.
0:07.0	1, 2, 1.
0:11.0	October 2017.
0:19.5	Baster is sweeping.
0:21.0	About 60 miles west of Stockholm.
0:24.7	A Danish journalist from a TV program called Operation X approaches a large
0:29.9	power plant.
0:31.7	The imposing blue and white structure looms over the landscape, smoke billowing out of
0:36.8	its chimneys.
0:38.7	The journalist who's accompanied by a cameraman is both nervous and excited.
0:44.8	He's been working on a documentary about fast fashion waste for months.
0:49.6	And this plant may hold the smoking gun.
0:53.7	Yens Niren, the plant's owner, spots the reporter and his cameraman and flags him
0:59.0	down.
1:00.0	The reporter picks up his pace, waving hello.
1:03.0	Ah, thank you for agreeing to meet me.
1:06.3	No problem.
1:07.3	How can I help you?
1:08.6	I'm investigating claims that H&M is burning clothes here at your plant.
1:13.8	H&M is one of the biggest fast fashion companies in the world, bringing up 26 billion
1:20.6	dollars a year in sales.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.