Edinburgh Woollen Mill (owners of Peacocks, Bomarché, Austin Reed, Jaeger) has not agreed to #PayUp

11-17-20 – Edinburgh Woollen Mill (owners of Peacocks, Bomarché, Austin Reed, Jaeger) falls into administration and claims it cannot pay its debts to suppliers, despite CEO Philip Day’s $1.2 billion net worth.

5-27-20 – Bangladesh’s largest apparel export trade association, the BGMEA, threatens to blacklist Edinburgh Woollen Mill from future business in the country if it does not agree to #PayUp for orders that it placed and that were completed or in-process prior to the pandemic. 

4-30-20 – Edinburgh Woollen Mill (owners of Peacocks, Bomarché, Austin Reed, Jaeger) cancel all orders completed and in-production prior to the pandemic, threatening to push numerous factories in Bangladesh into financial ruin.