American Apparel is a textile retail business from Los Angeles. It has over 150 shops in 11 countries.

The characteristic is these enterprises Sweatshop free clothes offers, which are manufactured in the city center of Los Angeles with minimum wages by 13 U$.

The employees receive spare time also paid, a Gesundheistvorsorge, subsidized food supply, job ticket, instruction in English as foreign language, Massagen, free a good job environment and usually modern operating equipment.

At present the enterprise grows and opens shops into United States, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, combined Kingdom of, France and Mexiko.The corporation, Business Week (June 27, 2005). Living on the Edge RK American Apparel.

It became recently in Inc. Increasing enterprise snaps magazines to the 500 in the USA counted; with three-yearly growth of 525% and proceeds of 124 millions a U$ 2004

Criticism

Those usually criticism been based on the sexually oriented advertisement and unorthodox Unternhemenskultur.

American Apparel's CEO, DOV Charney, became of several female employees of the sexual annoyance angeklagtJosh Dean. Inc. (September 2005). DOV Charney, Like It or emergency., allegedly that had he oral traffic with a female employee and masturbierte during a two-month interview with the magazine Jane Reporterin Claudine Ko.Claudine of cost JANE (August 2005).

The company is criticized also for its sexual loaded advertisement, which suggestive photos in amateur pornographischem style, ajar against a campaign Calvin Kleins uses.

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