In December 2024, it was reported that 40,000 workers working across sixteen Beximco Group textile factories would be laid off, amid financial challenges and the arrest of the company's co-founder, and the company citing lack of international work orders as the reason for the layoffs.

In January 2025, workers staged protests demanding the reopening of the factories, after having staged protests and blockades for several months over unpaid wages. Rahima Khatun, a former worker at a Beximco Group factory, said: "We are dying from hunger. The factories have been closed for several months and have not reopened. Can't you see the condition we are in?". In March 2025, it was announced that all Beximco Textiles had closed.

In March 2025, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited brands reportedly sourcing from or having recently sourced from Beximco Group textile factories to respond to the factory closures and its impacts on workers, including: Marks & Spencer, Target, PVH Corp, Inditex (for brands incl. Bershka, ZARA and Pull&Bear), Capri Holdings (for Michael Kors), C&A, BESTSELLER, NEXT, LANDS'END, MANGO, Shein (for brand Missguided), Primark, BIG STAR, LPP ,TALLY WEiJL and American Eagle.

In total, 12 brands (Marks & Spencer, Inditex, Capri Holdings, C&A, BESTSELLER, Next, Mango, Shein, Primark, LPP, Target and American Eagle) responded. Lands'End, Big Star and TALLY WEiJL did not.

Of the 11 brands that responded, eight brands (Marks & Spencer, Capri Holdings, C&A, Next, Mango, LPP, American Eagle and Target) indicated they had ceased orders with the factory prior to its closure. C&A (last orders shipped October 2024), LPP (last orders delivered November 2024) and BESTSELLER stated that production stopped in 2024 due to it becoming unfeasible to continue operations with Beximco Group.

Marks & Spencer stated its exit process had begun in August 2024, Target stated it had fully exited Beximco in Ocotber 2024, Mango stated its last orders were placed in January 2023, and Next stated last orders had been placed with the factory in 2019. Shein stated it has not sourced from Bangladesh since its acquisition of Missguided in 2023.

Primark provided an interim response indicating they would provide more information once their respective investigations were completed.

The responses and non-responses can be found below.