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Pretty Girl

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Clothing retail

Operates over 350 retail ladies fashion outlets across Australia under the brands Table Eight, Rockmans, BeMe and W. Lane. Bought Rockmans from Woolworths for $50 million in 2000. Owned by Packer's Consolidated Press Holdings until 2016, when Noni B acquired the group for over $75 million.

Company Ownership

Pretty Girl Fashion Group Pty Ltd   AUS     website   email      
  Mosaic Brands Ltd   
   owns 100% of Pretty Girl Fashion Group Pty Ltd  
AUS     website   email   facebook   

Women's fashion retailer

Formerly Noni B Ltd. Founded in 1977 and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in May 2000. They operate over 1400 stores around Australia. Private investment group Alceon became the major shareholder in 2014. Acquired the Events and Queenspark brands in 2015, Pretty Girl Fashion Group in 2016 and 5 clothing brands from Speciality Fashion Group in 2018.

      Alceon Group Pty Ltd   
       owns 36% of Mosaic Brands Ltd  
AUS     website         

Private investment group

Specialist advisory, investment, and capital solutions firm founded by former Babcock & Brown executives in 2010. Acquired Noni B in 2014.

> About the Ratings

Company Assessment

PRAISE CRITICISM INFORMATION
Pretty Girl Fashion Group Pty Ltd
No assessment data currently available for Pretty Girl Fashion Group Pty Ltd
Mosaic Brands Ltd
Social Efforts to pay a living wage
Oxfam Australia's Company Tracker compares the big clothing brands on their efforts to pay a living wage to the women working in their factories. This company has not published a list of its supplier factories, has not made a public commitment to paying living wages, and does not have a satisfactory grievance mechanism in place for workers to report violations of their rights.
Source: Oxfam Australia (2019)
Social D grade in 2019 Ethical Fashion Report
D grade in the Baptist World Aid Australia's 'Ethical Fashion Report 2019', which grades companies, from A to F, on the strength of their systems to mitigate against the risks of forced labour, child labour and worker exploitation in their supply chains, as well as protect the environment from the harmful impacts of the fashion industry. Assessment criteria fall into five main categories: policies, transparency and traceability, auditing and supplier relationships, worker empowerment and environmental management.
Source: Baptist World Aid Australia (2019)
Social No COVID Fashion Commitments
In 2020 Baptist World Aid Australia released The COVID Fashion Report, a special edition of their Ethical Fashion Report. The report is framed around six COVID Fashion Commitments that ask companies to demonstrate the steps and measures they are taking to protect and support the most vulnerable workers in their supply chains. This company showed no evidence of actions that it covered any of the COVID Fashion Commitments.
Source: Baptist World Aid Australia (2020)
Social 1.5/4 for purchasing practices
In 2020 Oxfam evaluated several clothing brand's purchasing practices across seven categories: whether a brand provides accurate forecasts of upcoming work to factories; its price negotiation strategies; whether a factory's environmental and social compliance influences the brand's purchasing decisions; how a brand places orders with factories; what its payment terms are; commitment to pay a living wage; and the transparency of a brand's supply chain. This company was given a score of 1.5 with 4 being the highest possible score.
Source: Oxfam Australia (2020)
Social Workers rights in Bangladesh
According to Oxfam's 2019 report, "Made in Poverty - The True Cost of Fashion", this company sources from Bangladesh. Some of the many disturbing findings of the research in Bangladesh were that 100 per cent of workers interviewed were not paid a living wage, nine out of ten could not afford enough food for themselves and their families until their next monthly pay and seven out of 10 could not pay for medical treatment when they were sick or injured. Other findings include people sleeping on floors in overcrowded houses, spiralling debts, and mothers separated from their children.
Source: Oxfam Australia (2019)

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Company Details

Revenue 202 million AUD (2008)
Employees 2,000 (2014)

Contact Details

Address 750 Princes Hwy, Tempe, NSW, 2044, Australia
Phone 02 8577 7777
Freecall 1800 815 074
Email customerservice@rockmans.com.au
Website www.rockmans.com.au

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