Online fashion retainer Boohoo ‘to buy Debenhams brand in cut-price £50m deal’

Online fashion brand Boohoo is set to buy collapsed department store group Debenhams in a cut-price £50million deal, insiders claim. The deal would result in the closure of all of Debenhams’ remaining department stores and is expected to be announced in the next few days – but the retailers are yet to confirm reports. Debenhams started a … Read more

Boohoo rocked by Covid backlash after hosting Dubai business event

Boohoo rocked by Covid backlash: Online giant under fire AGAIN as it hosts Dubai business conference at height of pandemic By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:52 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 18 January 2021 Boohoo is facing a backlash for hosting an international suppliers conference at the height of … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Boohoo flies into another fashion storm

Boohoo, to its credit, has been trying to clean up its supply chain and governance in response to the blistering report from Alison Levitt QC. So it is acutely disappointing that on the same day as its new high-powered monitor, Brian Leveson, was delivering his debut ethics report last week, Boohoo bosses were in Dubai … Read more

Lockdowns to wipe £1bn off Primark sales… but Boohoo booms

Lockdowns to wipe £1bn off Primark sales… but Boohoo booms as internet shoppers stock up on casualwear Boohoo enjoyed a bumper Christmas but Primark suffered as stores closed Primark’s refusal down the years to move online looks like a grave error  Boohoo generated £661 million in sales in the four months to December 31  By … Read more

Boohoo sales soar by 40% during lockdown after low pay scandal 

Boohoo says its sales are due to smash targets as the latest bout of lockdown restrictions set its sales soaring – despite being embroiled in controversy over claims it was using suppliers who exploited their workers. The online fashion retailer said group revenues jumped 40 per cent to £660.8 million on the back of strong … Read more

Boohoo ‘pays Pakistani workers 29p an hour’ investigation claims

Boohoo sweatshop shame: Fashion chain sells clothes made by Pakistani workers earning just 29p an hour, investigators claim Workers in the factory in Faisalabad claim they are earning £47 a month  Pakistan’s minimum wage for 17,500 rupees to the 10,000 paid in the factory There are also allegations that workers in Leicester are paid £3.50 … Read more

Critics slam ‘shocked and appalled’ boohoo billionaire

Critics slam ‘shocked and appalled’ boohoo billionaire as he pleads ignorance to sweatshop factory conditions By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:56 GMT, 16 December 2020 | Updated: 21:56 GMT, 16 December 2020 The billionaire founder of Boohoo faced a backlash after he claimed to be ‘shocked and appalled’ by the sweatshop conditions … Read more

Boohoo boss Mahmud Kamani’s pain over slave labour storm

When Mahmud Kamani faces adversity, he drives to a run-down suburb of Manchester, peers up at the one-bedroom flat that he once called home and reflects on his rags-to-riches journey from market trader to billionaire boss of the Boohoo fashion empire. In recent months, the 56-year-old has had good cause to make such a journey. … Read more

Boohoo brings in leading judge Sir Brian Leveson for its clean-up

Boohoo brings in leading judge Sir Brian Leveson for its clean-up in wake of sweatshop scandal By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 26 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 26 November 2020 Boohoohas appointed one of the UK’s top judges to oversee the overhaul of its factories after a report found … Read more

Boohoo didn’t sack ANY senior staff after working conditions scandal

Fashion giant Boohoo failed to sack ANY senior staff over the working conditions scandal at one of its suppliers Damning report previously found allegations of poor working practice were true It concluded Boohoo knew of ‘endemic’ problems within its Leicester suppliers Boohoo accepted findings and apologised but has not sacked any senior staff  By Daily … Read more