The Italian competence authority forced Dior on Wednesday to pay 2 million euros to help for five years “operational victims” as part of an investigation into the working conditions of its subcontractors, but excluded any “offense.”
The Competition Authority of Italy (AGCM) had opened an investigation with “reason for the dissemination of statements (…) potentially false, particularly regarding working conditions and compliance with legality in certain providers of leather items.”
The latter announced on Wednesday that he did not observe “a crime”, but at the same time “he accepted and made the commitments proposed” by Dior on the issue, in particular the “economic support of 2 million euros for five years (…) to identify the victims of exploitation at work and support them on dedicated routes.”
The luxury house also undertakes to renew its “procedures” for “selection and control of suppliers”.
Armani survey still in progress
Dior, which belongs to the number one luxury in the world, the French group LVMH, said that it was “happy” on Wednesday of the “positive conclusion of the AGCM survey”, which “emphasizes once again that the house observes, tirelessly and always, that its products are manufactured with the best rigor in Italy,” he wrote in a press release.
The Italian luxury group Giorgio Armani is also attacked by the investigation opened by the AGCM in the summer of 2024. The investigation is still “in Progreso,” the AGCM to AFP told AFP on Wednesday.
One of Armani’s subsidiaries had used a supplier, Lombard Srl Manifesture, which would have used subcontractors that ordered Chinese workshops that employ, around Milan, undocumented migrants, for the production of bags, leather items and Armani signed accessories.
Source: BFM TV
