Documents recovered from the factory site by labor activists and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show one order for 35, 000 units of boys' polo shirts and girls' leggings for Mango's Autumn-Winter collection.

WSJ: Doomed Factories Raced to Fill Orders

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.

WSJ: Doomed Factories Raced to Fill Orders

The money should be recovered, Mr Wu believes, from insurance payments tied to the flooding, and the sale of the factory buildings.

ECONOMIST: Business in China