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database [1] on the Internet you can look up who owns the brand name of a garment. Just type in the CA number you find on the label (or the RN number for U.S. textile products or WPL number for U.S. wool products), and the database will tell you who owns the brand and their address.

• To find out more about the corporate structure of some multinational corporations, try checking Hoover's Online, a database of business information, some of it available for free http://www.hoovers.com/ [2].
• A detailed document on how to investigate a multinational corporation can be found at: http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=945 [3].

The Ethical Trading Action Group has proposed federal regulations requiring companies to disclose the names and addresses of the factories used to manufacture a company's apparel products. Using the CA number, this information could be made available on the internet. However, faced with strong resistance from industry, the Canadian government refused to regulate disclosure.

• More about ETAG's Disclosure campaign [3]

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here [3] for more Information.

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