Esquel Group

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]

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

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]

Facilities

Most of the company's manufacturing facilities are in China.[4] 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.[4] The company has strategy of upgrading or opening new facilities with better automation to counter the competitive pressure of rising wages.[4] 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]

Controversy

In July 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security placed a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of Esquel Group on its Entity List for alleged use of forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.[5][6]

References
  1. "Esquel Group". Esquel Group. Archived from the original on 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  2. "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. "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. "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.
  5. 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.
  6. "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.
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