Banana Republic is owned by The Gap, Inc. which refuses to sign the Bangladesh safety agreement. See the comments under The Gap Corp. for more info.

Gets much of its cocoa from West African suppliers sourcing from farms built on illegal child and forced labor.

Workers making shoes say they were abused. Supervisors threw shoes at them, slapped them in the face, kicked them and called them dogs and pigs. Nike admits such abuse among the factory contractors but says there was little it could do.

Uses 279 factories in Bangladesh, which has the lowest hourly wages in the world, and Walmart refuses to sign a new industry promoted worker safety deal for Bangladesh.