... After review, we do inform you that the "East West Group" and "Abonti Color Tex factories" aren't suppliers of the Casino group. As regards factory "Garib&Garib Company Limited", the Casino group maintains business relationships with the company named "Garib&Garib Company Limited Unit 2" and not "Garib&Garib Company Limited Unit 1".

Nevertheless, even if Casino group is not working with "Garib&Garib Company Limited Unit 1", we immediately asked our Social Compliance Coordinator based in Dhaka to vist the "Garib&Garib Company Limited" in order to check the situation. He visited the both companies on the 29 March 2019... reviewed some attendance records, talked to the factory management and workers, and concluded that "Garib&Garib Company Limited Unit 2" was not involved in the facts mentioned in the article...

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