Tesco withdraws Chinese cards after message from possible prisoner found inside
Tesco donates the money raised from such Christmas cards to the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK
23 December 2019 - 14:51
London/San Franciso/Beining — UK grocery giant Tesco has suspended its supply of Christmas cards from a Chinese factory and said it is investigating a newspaper report that prison labour is used in their production.
All the cards produced by the factory have been withdrawn from sale, Tesco said in a statement on Sunday. If the investigation shows a breach of the company’s rule against using prison labour, the factory will be removed from Tesco’s supplier list “immediately and permanently”...
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