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Brazil adds major fashion company to its slavery 'dirty list'

The maker of two of Brazil’s biggest fashion brands Fabula Confecçao e Comercio de Roupas was named in the country’s “dirty list” of companies that engage in slave labor. The company outsourced manufacture of its A.Brand and Animale clothing to three workshops in São Paulo that kept Bolivians in slavery-like conditions. While Fabula does not own the workshops at issue, it was found by labor inspectors to be the real employer since the workshops took orders from Fabula and only serviced its brands.

Animale and A.Brand are two of the most well-known luxury brands owned by Grupo Soma, which owns Fabula. Soma has about 4,700 employees and had revenue of more than 1.2 billion reals ($312.28 million) in 2018, according to its website. Names are added to the “dirty list” after an internal government process that can take years. Once added, a name stays on the list for two years. Nearly 190 companies are listed, most of them farms and construction companies.

 
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