'Inhuman conditions': life in factory making Spice Girls T-shirts Read moreAnnouncing the partnership, the Spice Girls said the cause was important to them because “equality and the movement of people power have always been at the heart of the band”. A spokesman for the Spice Girls said they were “deeply shocked and appalled” and would personally fund an investigation into the factory’s working conditions. The company behind the factory that made the T-shirts, Interstoff Apparels, said the findings would be investigated but were “simply not true”. Factory workers who do not make the targets are verbally abused by management and reduced to tears. He admitted being a part-owner and co-founder of the company behind the factory, Interstoff, but said he resigned from the board five years ago.

Source: The Guardian January 20, 2019 18:00 UTC