Other companies that contracted work in the building included Canadian retailer Loblaw Cos.

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They produced clothing for big name retailers including British retailer Primark, Children's Place and Canadian company Loblaw Inc.

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Another new JC Penney shop-in-shop will be the colorful Canadian clothing brand Joe Fresh, started by grocery chain Loblaw.

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The British retailer Primark has acknowledged that it had a contract, as well as Canada's Loblaw and Denmark's PWT Group.

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Loblaw said it plans to expand the scope of its factory audits.

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Some retailers, including Primark and Loblaw, have promised to compensate injured employees and families of the dead from the factories manufacturing their brands.

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"The creation of the REIT is expected to build long-term value both for Loblaw and the REIT, " said Galen Weston, Loblaw's executive chairman, in a statement.

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Clothing and order forms from a half dozen Western brands were found in the rubble of the toppled building outside Dhaka, including Canadian retail giant Loblaw Cos.

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Two companies whose suppliers were based in the building, the UK's Primark and Canada's Loblaw, said on Monday that they would pay compensation and offer emergency food aid to victims employed by them.

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The Monday after the deadly collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh, Joe Fresh parent company Loblaw joined fellow retailers Sears Canada and Wal-Mart Canada at an emergency meeting of the Retail Council of Canada to discuss how to combat working conditions in sweatshops.

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