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Responding to the global coronavirus pandemic, H&M Group is the latest fashion company to announce that they will be producing and providing personal protective equipment to hospitals and healthcare workers.
To help tackle the global outbreak of COVID-19, H&M group will be supporting countries, hospitals and hardworking health care workers as the retail conglomerate just announced that it would be utilizing its facilities to produce much-need protective equipment. Opening up its supply chain, the group will also be focusing on purchasing operations and logistics capabilities as it looks to speed up the delivery of the protective equipment that is currently in shortage in hospitals around the world.
Speaking on the announcement, H&M Group’s Head of Sustainability, Anna Gedda said: “The Coronavirus is dramatically affecting each and every one of us, and H&M Group is, like many other organizations, trying our best to help in this extraordinary situation. We see this is as a first step in our efforts to support in any way we can. We are all in this together, and have to approach this as collectively as possible.”
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