{"id":17361,"date":"2020-04-15T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/15\/arcadia-group-cancels-over-100m-of-orders-as-garment-industry-faces-ruin"},"modified":"2020-04-15T23:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:00:36","slug":"arcadia-group-cancels-over-100m-of-orders-as-garment-industry-faces-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17361","title":{"rendered":"Arcadia Group cancels \u2018over \u00a3100m\u2019 of orders as garment industry faces ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As owner of brands including Topshop and Dorothy Perkins cancels unshipped orders, thousands will be left without income, warn rights groups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Arcadia Group, which owns brands including Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge, is estimated to have cancelled in excess of \u00a3100m of existing clothing orders worldwide from suppliers in some of the world\u2019s poorest countries as the global garment sector faces ruin.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Bangladesh Garments and Manufacturing Association (BGMEA), the Arcadia Group has cancelled \u00a39m of orders in Bangladesh alone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/15\/arcadia-group-cancels-over-100m-of-orders-as-garment-industry-faces-ruin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As owner of brands including Topshop and Dorothy Perkins cancels unshipped orders, thousands will be left without income, warn rights groupsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Arcadia Group, which owns brands including Topsh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,6,833,59,335,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-fashion-industry","category-global-development","category-retail-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17364,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions\/17364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}