Fast-fashion firm Boohoo put “Made in the UK” labels on potentially thousands of clothes that were actually made in South Asia.
Plain T-shirts and hoodies had their original labels removed at Boohoo’s flagship factory, Thurmaston Lane in Leicester, last year.
On Tuesday reports suggested that the site was set to close.
Boohoo said the incorrect labels were down to a misinterpretation of the labelling rules.
The Thurmaston Lane factory opened two years ago and was promoted by the retailer as a UK manufacturing centre of excellence, offering end-to-end garment production in the UK.
The mislabelling took place at the factory, affecting up to one in 250 of Boohoo’s global supply of garments between January and October 2023.
The BBC estimates that this could amount to hundreds of thousands of wrongly labelled garments. However, the retailer would not provide its own figures.
A real case of a look behind the image.
