Esquel Group

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Esquel Group
TypePrivate
IndustryTextiles
Founder
HeadquartersHong Kong
Key people
Marjorie Yang (Chair)
Number of employees
57,000[1]
Websitewww.esquel.com

Esquel Group (Chinese: 溢達集團) is a Chinese textile manufacturing company. It is the world's largest woven shirt maker, producing about 100 million shirts annually.[2]

History[]

The family owned business was founded in 1978 by family patriarch Yang Yuan-loong.[3] The opening of China that year had according to one of Yang's daughters led to the decision to establish the company.[3]

U.S. sanctions[]

In July 2020, the United States Department of Commerce placed a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of Esquel Group on the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List for alleged use of forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.[4][5] In July 2021, Esquel filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. government seeking removal from the Entity List.[6] In August 2021, Esquel was removed, with conditions, from the Entity List by the inter-agency End-User Review Committee, which is composed of representatives from the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, Defense, Energy, and Treasury.[7][8] Several weeks later, Esquel resumed its lawsuit after failing to reach an agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department regarding the timetable for removal and the specifics of the conditions for removal.[9]

Facilities[]

Most of the company's manufacturing facilities are in China.[10] It has other facilities in Malaysia, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Its operations in China like the rest of the textile industry in China have faced the constant pressure of rising labor costs and stricter environmental regulation.[10] The company has strategy of upgrading or opening new facilities with better automation to counter the competitive pressure of rising wages.[10] This strategy was noted by the South China Morning Post as different from some other competitors which sought to diversify operations by moving to other countries with lower labor costs.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ "Esquel Group". Esquel Group. Archived from the original on 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "100m shirts and counting: Textile maker Esquel embraces technology to cut costs and protect the environment". South China Morning Post. December 16, 2016. Archived from the original on July 11, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "How the Esquel Group unexpectedly ended up all in the family". CNBC. May 16, 2016. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  4. ^ Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (July 21, 2020). "Subsidiary of world's largest shirtmaker put on U.S. blacklist over Xinjiang ties". Axios. Archived from the original on July 22, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  5. ^ "Commerce Department Adds Eleven Chinese Entities Implicated in Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang to the Entity List". U.S. Department of Commerce. July 20, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  6. ^ "Esquel Group sues US over subsidiary's inclusion on 'entity list'". South China Morning Post. 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  7. ^ Bray, Chad (August 4, 2021). "Nike's former supplier Esquel Group scores a rare win in a bid to remove Xinjiang unit from US forced-labour sanctions list". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on August 17, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  8. ^ "15 CFR Appendix Supplement No. 5 to Part 744 - Procedures for End-User Review Committee Entity List and 'Military End User' (MEU) List Decisions". Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School. Archived from the original on August 27, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  9. ^ Bray, Chad (August 30, 2021). "Hong Kong shirtmaker Esquel Group resumes lawsuit in bid to remove Xinjiang unit from US forced-labour sanctions list". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on August 31, 2021. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Why A Chinese Clothes Maker Rejects Cheap Labor And Goes Green". Forbes. November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
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