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Dhaka has cast a big shadow over the garment industry’s future, especially as the victims included several Italians employed in the fashion trade. But the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, which represents more than two dozen North American fashion brands and retailers, said that its members remained committed to buying garments from Bangladesh.
A group of mostly US-based fashion brands and retailers took pledge on Wednesday not to turn their backs on Bangladesh’s crucial garment industry, despite a series of deadly attacks by Islamist extremists.
