{"id":163705,"date":"2020-12-16T23:52:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:09:34","slug":"i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"\"I want to make Leicester right\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani <strong>told MPs today that he wanted to \"make Leicester right\" as he faced questions<\/strong> over the practices at factories in the city that supply the fast fashion group.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kamani was summoned to account for Boohoo's <strong>environmental practices and the auditing of its suppliers by Parliament's\u00a0Environmental Audit Committee<\/strong>. Speaking to the committee, Kamani said the business was working to \"fix\" issues with suppliers in Leicester after an under-cover news reporter discovered workers at a factory in which Boohoo's clothes were seen this summer were paid as little as \u00a33.50 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Boohoo claimed that its clothes had been sent to the factory in question for packaging without its knowledge but nonetheless <strong>hired Alison Levitt QC to investigate its supply chain and produce an independent report<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/in-detail-what-the-boohoo-report-tells-us-about-its-supply-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Published in September,<\/a> the Levitt report concluded that while Boohoo did not seek to benefit from poor treatment of staff at its suppliers, it had been aware of problems for some time and had done little to fix the matter.<\/p>\n<p>However Kamani pledged that the business was committed to making meaningful change. <strong>\"We are fixing this,\" he said. \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hearing found that Boohoo had exited 64 Leicester factories since late 2019 as it sought to clean up its supply chain and carried out around 400 unannounced audits carried out this year.<\/p>\n<p>Boohoo is said to make around 40% of its clothing in Leicester, a far greater percentage than other high street brands, and Kamani felt that his company was<strong> sometimes unfairly singled out for supporting UK manufacturing when it could simply offshore production.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us to move out of Leicester, it\u2019s very easy for us to take all our production offshore,\u201d he said. \u201cLots of people in the fashion industry have moved offshore. <strong>We are still here and sometimes, sometimes, it feels like we get punished for it, just sometimes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kamani claimed the company <strong>remained committed to using factories in Leicester despite the issues,\u00a0<\/strong>which it was fixing,\u00a0and said he hoped that once the business established closer links with suppliers in the city, it might increase the number of units produced there.<\/p>\n<p>Boohoo also came under fire for a<strong> Black Friday promotion in which some items were sold for as little as 6p<\/strong> with others sold with 99% off. Kamani said the move enabled shoppers who had little money to buy a new wardrobe and said that it was a one-off sale in a tough year. The average selling price of an item across Boohoo was \u00a312, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the publication of Levitt's report,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/boohoo-appoints-retired-judge-sir-brian-leveson-to-oversee-supply-chain-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Boohoo appointed\u00a0senior retired judge Sir Brian Leveson<\/a> to oversee its supply chain. Reporting to the board Leveson, who made his name investigating conduct of the media, will provide regular updates on how the company is progressing with its\u00a0Agenda for Change programme.<\/p>\n<p>Leveson has <strong>also appointed legal and enforcement specialists<\/strong> to ensure supply chain \u201cis treated fully in accordance with the law and principles of ethical trading\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":141699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10494,12969],"tags":[16085,3791,21,13568,11375,12120,10996,16652],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;I want to make Leicester right&quot; Boohoo&#039;s Mahmud Kamani tells MPs - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani told MPs today that he wanted to &quot;make Leicester right&quot; as he faced questions over the practices at factories in the city\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;I want to make Leicester right&quot; Boohoo&#039;s Mahmud Kamani tells MPs - TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani told MPs today that he wanted to &quot;make Leicester right&quot; as he faced questions over the practices at factories in the city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theindustryfashion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-16T23:52:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-06T12:09:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mahmud-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lauretta Roberts\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89\"},\"headline\":\"\\\"I want to make Leicester right\\\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-16T23:52:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-06T12:09:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/\"},\"wordCount\":504,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Alison Levitt\",\"Boohoo\",\"E-commerce\",\"Environmental Audit Committee\",\"Fast Fashion\",\"Leicester\",\"Mahmud Kamani\",\"Sir Brian Leveson\"],\"articleSection\":{\"2\":\"News &amp; Insight\",\"3\":\"Retail &amp; Etail\",\"4\":\"Sustainability\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"I want to make Leicester right\\\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs - TheIndustry.fashion\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-16T23:52:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-06T12:09:34+00:00\",\"description\":\"Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani told MPs today that he wanted to \\\"make Leicester right\\\" as he faced questions over the practices at factories in the city\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\\\"I want to make Leicester right\\\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/\",\"name\":\"TheIndustry.fashion\",\"description\":\"Fashion news, insights, podcasts and events for professionals from across the fashion sector.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\",\"name\":\"TheIndustry.fashion\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/LOGO.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/LOGO.png\",\"width\":585,\"height\":217,\"caption\":\"TheIndustry.fashion\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theindustryfashion\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theindustryfash\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theindustryfashion\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/10970016\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89\",\"name\":\"Lauretta Roberts\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0dfd15bd9969aa1cbd9cdc088372e7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0dfd15bd9969aa1cbd9cdc088372e7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Lauretta Roberts\"},\"description\":\"Lauretta Roberts is the CEO, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The.Industry.fashion She is also the former director of brand &amp; propositions of trend forecaster WGSN and a former editor of Drapers magazine.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.theindustrylondon.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"I want to make Leicester right\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs - TheIndustry.fashion","description":"Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani told MPs today that he wanted to \"make Leicester right\" as he faced questions over the practices at factories in the city","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"I want to make Leicester right\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs - TheIndustry.fashion","og_description":"Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani told MPs today that he wanted to \"make Leicester right\" as he faced questions over the practices at factories in the city","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/","og_site_name":"TheIndustry.fashion","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theindustryfashion\/","article_published_time":"2020-12-16T23:52:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-08-06T12:09:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":570,"height":380,"url":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mahmud-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Lauretta Roberts","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@theindustryfash","twitter_site":"@theindustryfash","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lauretta Roberts","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/"},"author":{"name":"Lauretta Roberts","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89"},"headline":"\"I want to make Leicester right\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs","datePublished":"2020-12-16T23:52:56+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-06T12:09:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/"},"wordCount":504,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization"},"keywords":["Alison Levitt","Boohoo","E-commerce","Environmental Audit Committee","Fast Fashion","Leicester","Mahmud Kamani","Sir Brian Leveson"],"articleSection":{"2":"News &amp; Insight","3":"Retail &amp; Etail","4":"Sustainability"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2020","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/","name":"\"I want to make Leicester right\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs - TheIndustry.fashion","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-12-16T23:52:56+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-06T12:09:34+00:00","description":"Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani told MPs today that he wanted to \"make Leicester right\" as he faced questions over the practices at factories in the city","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/i-want-to-make-leicester-right-boohoos-mahmud-kamani-tells-mps\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\"I want to make Leicester right\" Boohoo's Mahmud Kamani tells MPs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/","name":"TheIndustry.fashion","description":"Fashion news, insights, podcasts and events for professionals from across the fashion sector.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization","name":"TheIndustry.fashion","url":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/LOGO.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/LOGO.png","width":585,"height":217,"caption":"TheIndustry.fashion"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theindustryfashion\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/theindustryfash","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theindustryfashion\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/10970016\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89","name":"Lauretta Roberts","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0dfd15bd9969aa1cbd9cdc088372e7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0dfd15bd9969aa1cbd9cdc088372e7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Lauretta Roberts"},"description":"Lauretta Roberts is the CEO, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The.Industry.fashion She is also the former director of brand &amp; propositions of trend forecaster WGSN and a former editor of Drapers magazine.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.theindustrylondon.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}