Retailer Bosideng ends UK contracts

Chinese fashion retailer Bosideng International Holdings Ltd is ending contracts with its UK buying and design teams and shifting some key manufacturing to China.

Three buyers, including a design executive and an assistant based in Bradford, northern England and one designer in London, have been made redundant. The move is part of strategic adjustment, Bosideng China said in a reply to China Daily on Thursday.

No more collections will be designed from the UK as local Chinese designers will take their place and add more Chinese elements into the following work, according to Bosideng China. They are shifting down clothes' manufacture to their factories in China and keeping other men's apparel categories overseas.