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15 Dec 2016

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JD Sport Fashion

JD Sports Fashion Plc - Response to Media Reports

JD Sports Fashion Plc notes the media reports containing allegations regarding the working conditions at our Kingsway distribution centre. We would like to address the validity of these allegations by issuing the following statement: We are deeply disappointed and concerned by the footage broadcast by Channel 4, which we have seen for the first time in full this evening. Whilst we do not believe it to be an accurate reflection of our culture, the vast majority of our people or our standards of practice and procedures, we will be launching an investigation into the implementation of our policies at our Kingsway facility...In the short term, we intend to retrain all supervisory and security employees at the facility, as a matter of urgency, to ensure that those policies are correctly reflected across the workplace...we will undertake to conduct a review of all our policies, their communication and implementation at the site, with the clear aim not only to continue the improvement of the facility, but also to think about the future structure of employment at the site for the benefit of all the people employed at Kingsway...