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Loblaw Inc. and Rana Plaza

Michael Sider

Product #:9B13M071
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:General Management, International Business
Setting:Canada, Bangladesh, 2013
Details:Case (PDF) • 4 pages • 2013-06-20

Subjects:

Crisis managementCrisis communicationCorporate communicationsSupply chain managementBusiness ethicsOperations and supply chain managementBusiness law and ethicsLeadership and managing peopleBusiness managementManagementInternational business

Industries:

Fabrication and manufacturingGoods, trade, and consumer services

Geography:

CanadaBangladeshNorth AmericaAsia
Your Price:$10.54

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A business professor who teaches sustainability must decide whether to sell his shares in the Canadian company, Loblaw Inc., after learning that the company produced garments for its clothing line in a Bangladeshi garment factory that collapsed, killing 1,127 workers.

Learning Objectives

This case can be used to explore crisis management, crisis communications and the ethics of investing in companies that use cheap labor in developing countries.
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