Benetton's sales were stuck at 2 billion euros in 2011, unchanged from a decade earlier.
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Documents recovered from the building site showed the factory received an order from Italy's Benetton Group SpA through an Indian agent in August 2012.
Italy's Benetton eventually admitted a link following publication of photographs of its labels in the wreckage and testimony of survivors, though it maintains its subcontractor stopped using the factory a month before the disaster because of poor standards.
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The list includes Spain's Mango, Dress Barn of the U.S., Canada's The Children's Place, and the Asian arm of Benetton based in Hong Kong.
In early December, according to the Benetton group, he encouraged Gilberto Benetton, who was keen to sell his family's 5% stake, to be a good Italian when making his decision.
Former Benetton designer and Simtek team owner Nick Wirth is leading the team's technical division from his headquarters in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
The Welsh region will face different Italian opponents this term, with Carrera Petrarca, Benetton Treviso, Cammi Calvisano and Arix Viadana involved in the Italian league's top four play-off.
Blu's Italian shareholders, which include Mediaset and Autostrade, controlled by the Benetton group, blamed BT for failing to take a leading role in the bidding.
Former Benetton chief designer and Simtek team owner Nick Wirth has been leading the team's technical division and he says the new investment will help advance the development of the car for 2011 and beyond.
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Wirth was Benetton chief designer as the team slid from competitiveness in the late 1990s following Michael Schumacher's departure for Ferrari.
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