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Shein

July 2024

  • Jonathan Reynolds in Downing Street last Friday before his appointment as business secretary.

    Observer business agenda
    Thames, Tata, Shein – it won’t be business as usual for Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds

    The new business secretary will have big calls to make within a few days of sitting down at his desk
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Is Shein really worth £50bn? Reasons to be sceptical are piling up

    Nils Pratley
    Shein failed to list in the US and now the EU is planning customs duties that may dent its business model
  • a temu logo and smartphone screenshot of its online marketplace

    EU plan to impose import duty on cheap goods could dent Shein and Temu

    Brussels move to end tax loophole exploited by China-linked marketplaces could also hit Shein’s planned London listing

June 2024

  • A large illuminated display reading 'Shein' with clothes rails in the background

    Human rights group urges UK financial regulator to block Shein’s LSE flotation

  • Shein’s office in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province.

    Shein filed for London listing in early June, sources say

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    More Melroses, fewer Sheins: the real definition of success for London

    Nils Pratley
  • A Shein logo on a smartphone with a red-tinted stock graph in the background

    Stop Shein listing on the FTSE, workers’ rights campaigners urge

  • Business live
    UK gas prices hit highest level of 2024 after crack closes Norwegian pipeline; UK factories return to growth – as it happened

  • Shein wins Labour support as it prepares £50bn London listing

May 2024

  •  A view of a Shein pop-up store at a mall in Singapore April 4, 2024

    Senior UK politicians call for greater scrutiny of potential Shein IPO

  • The Shard, Tower Bridge and the City of London financial district in May 2024 (taken by a drone)

    UK cannot afford to give ‘cold shoulder’ to China, says City minister

  • a slightly blurred time-lapsed image of a woman passing a Shein advert on a white-tiled London tube walkway

    Shein ‘steps up plan for London IPO’ amid US listing hurdles

  • With the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral as their backstop Keir Starmer and  Rachel Reeves visit to London Stock Exchange Group last September

    ‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive

April 2024

  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022.

    The long read
    ‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein

  • a woman walks past an advertisement for Shein in London

    Fast fashion retailer Shein doubles profits as it awaits IPO approval

March 2024

  • Catherine Bennett

    Jeremy Hunt and Gen Z are clearly of a mind on Shein. They’d rather skirt the issues

    Catherine Bennett
  • A man walks past a Shein advertisement in London.

    Fast fashion: the French are bringing Shein and Temu to heel. Can Britain follow suit?

    Tiffanie Darke
  • Imported secondhand clothes rot in a dumpsite in Accra, Ghana. France’s parliament has voted for a package of measures aimed at reducing the market for fast fashion.

    France’s lower house votes to limit ‘excesses’ of fast fashion with environmental surcharge

  • A big Shein logo in its Singapore office

    Shein UK breaches company law by failing to disclose human owner

February 2024

  • A model walks the runway at a Shein fashion show and pop-up shop in Ibiza

    UK’s Jeremy Hunt met Shein boss in attempt to lure firm’s IPO to London

    Chancellor in talks with fast-fashion company as it believes it unlikely that SEC will approve US flotation
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