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24 Jan 2002

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Free Burma Coalition

German-owned Spiegel Bans Burma Buys: Mail Order Giant is 28th Company to Refuse Business with Forced Labor Regime

The Spiegel Group [which owns the retailer Eddie Bauer], a top U.S. mail-order retailer with nearly $4 billion in sales in 2000, has announced in a letter to the Free Burma Coalition it will not accept merchandise that is sourced from the Southeast Asian country of Burma.