Industry
Retail
3 organizations and 10 assessed claims in retail.
Organizations
- Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.Japan. 3 claims, 2 cases.
- Steinhoff International Holdings N.V.Netherlands. 4 claims, 3 cases.
- Walmart Inc.United States. 3 claims, 2 cases.
Claims
- Supported5
- Partly supported2
- Outdated2
- Unresolved1
- Supported61A German court convicted two former managing directors of a Steinhoff subsidiary over false balance sheet presentation.
- Unresolved44Fast Retailing said in July 2021 that none of its production partners were in Xinjiang and in May 2023 that there is no forced labour in its supply chains.
- Outdated71Reuters reported in July 2021 that French prosecutors had opened an investigation into Uniqlo France and three other retailers over suspected concealment of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.
- Supported63US Customs and Border Protection blocked a shipment of Uniqlo shirts at the Port of Los Angeles in January 2021 and ruled on 10 May 2021 that the company had not shown the shirts were free of forced labour.
- Partly supported88South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority penalised Steinhoff R1.5 billion for misleading the market.Steinhoff International Holdings N.V.Regulator statement, 16 September 20192 records citedDisclosure
- Supported94The SEC said in June 2019 that Walmart allowed subsidiaries in Brazil, China, India and Mexico to use third-party intermediaries who made payments to foreign officials without reasonable assurances of FCPA compliance.
- Supported88Walmart said on 20 June 2019 that its global resolution with the Justice Department and the SEC ended all FCPA-related investigations into the company and its subsidiaries, for a combined payment of US$282.7 million.
- Supported85Steinhoff said in December 2017 that new information had come to light relating to accounting irregularities requiring further investigation.
- Outdated83Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. is a company whose shares trade in Johannesburg and Frankfurt.
- Partly supported77An Associated Press report of 21 April 2012, relaying a New York Times investigation, said Wal-Mart investigators in Mexico found hundreds of suspect payments totaling more than US$24 million and that the company ended its internal probe.