Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited all five companies to:

1. Respond to the report’s findings and workers’ allegations of abusive working conditions;
2. Disclose the steps it has taken to investigate and remedy workers for the abuse reported; and,
3. Disclose any human rights due diligence it undertakes prior to entering into contracts with suppliers and when monitoring working conditions at suppliers.

Asda provided the following response:

Hi Isobel, thanks for your note. We are working with SEA Alliance on the topics discussed within the article. Please see a shared response from them on behalf of the membership.

The statement from SEA Alliance referred to by Asda is available in full here.