GAP Received Negative Publicity When It Was Discovered That

question 27

Multiple Choice

GAP received negative publicity when it was discovered that

• A)underage children were making the firm's clothing in India.
• B)the dyes used in its blue jeans were very harmful to the environment.
• C)the cotton used to make its jeans was bought at extremely low prices from highly subsidized farming operations in the United States.
• D)Each of these problems was revealed in an investigative report of GAP by the UK newspaper The Observer.

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