In 2001 Atilio Curiñanco and Rosa Nahuelquir occupied, without authorisation, 385 hectares of unpopulated land situated in Patagonia, belonging to Compañía de Tierras Sud Argentino held by Edizione Holding (holding of the Benetton family). They stayed there for 39 days, at the end of which they were ordered to leave. As a result of this incident Compañía de Tierras Sud Argentino initiated a lawsuit which confirmed the total legality of its ownership of the land, situated in the area of Santa Rosa.
Read moreIn 2004 PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
launched a campaign against the Australian Wool Industry in an
attempt to force it to cease a practice called mulesing. PETA
unjustly and incorrectly involved Benetton Group in this matter
despite the fact that Benetton has no relationship, direct or
indirect, with sheep breeding in Australia.
Within the Australian Wool Industry there are now developments
aimed at the progressive elimination of this practice.
Benetton Group has never used RFID technology nor have microchips (smart labels) ever been present in the 140 million-plus garments produced and sold throughout the world under its brand names, including Sisley.
Read moreIn 2003 the Court of Milan, condemned the journalist Riccardo Orizio and the editor-in-chief of Corriere della Sera, Ferruccio de Bortoli, for the charges attributed to them, respectively libel with aggravated circumstances and omitted control, in relation to the unmotivated involvement of the Group in a presumed case of exploitation of child labour in Turkey (1998).
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