LONDON: Primark, a hugely successful retailer with 220 stores across Europe, could review its decision to cancel contracts of its Bangalore-based suppliers after the BBC aired a documentary claiming that they were using child labour in their production in 2008. The claim has now been found to be untrue.
The BBC's 50-year-old flagship weekly current affairs programme, Panorama, had aired the documentary.
The BBC has now apologized to Primark admitting it may have made a mistake. Responding to Primark's protest, the BBC conceded in a 49-page report that footage of three boys engaged in completing garments for Primark was "more likely than not" to have been "not genuine" after a three-year internal inquiry.