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  Holland House

  Garson and Shaw  

Major Teachers Group company based in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), with branches in London and Gibraltar and worldwide trading partners. Central to movement of profits from donated clothes into the $860 million 'Teachers Group treasury'. Read our dossier on Garson & Shaw >>>

  Where do the      clothes end up?  

The clothes are not given away to the poor.

Instead they are traded, often through Tvind subsidiary companies, and finally sold to local people in shops and street markets in:

  Africa  

Street markets, often supplied at a profit by Tvind's own companies.

  Eastern Europe  

Second hand clothes shops.

  Tvind Shops  

Humana shops in Germany, Spain and the Baltic States.

Gaia and Planet Aid clothing stores in the USA and Canada.

 

  College Aid  

Britain

Recently started appearing in support of Tvind college in Hull. Read the Tvind Alert dossier.

  Tvind trading and offshore companies  

  How it works  

How much of the clothes box income goes to the Third World? We don't know exactly - but probably not much.

* In Europe, journalists have discovered that by selling clothes to its own companies, the Teachers Group has been operating a financial scam for years - with most of the profits creamed off to Teachers Group offshore companies.

For a clear explanation, read Michael Bjerre's article on Humana Holland in the Danish newspaper, Berlingske Tidende (24th Aug 2002). Bjerre says in a single year, one Tvind controlled company turned over £11 million.

* In addition, as journalists in many other countries have discovered, a high proportion of the charities income has disappeared as 'costs'.

  The charity boxes and the   Tvind financial empire   

The Tvind charity boxes have to be seen as a part of the $860 milllion Tvind financial empire and its network of offshore companies:

  The onshore companies  

As well as charities or not-for-profits collecting used clothes in cities throughout the world, Tvind controls a number of commercial clothes trading concerns

Chief among these in the US are U'SAgain, a Tvind-controlled company in Chicago, and Garson and Shaw, a company with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and London, also controlled by Tvind.

Another important company until recently was Dutch business EC Trading, which went broke leaving a trail of bad debts .

  The offshore companies  

As well as these, Tvind controls a number of offshore companies buying and selling old clothes. These come and go, but they include Holland House, a company based in Gibraltar.

Tvind is known to sell some of the clothes it collects to these businesses - companies it also controls itself.

Tvind-controlled charity recyclers are:

Humana

Gaia

UFF (Ulandshjaelp fra Folk til Folk)

Planet Aid

Green World Recycling

College Aid

  Tvind - from rags to riches  

Tvind is one of the world's biggest operators in the international used clothes business.

It controls at least five 'brands' of supposed charitable clothes recycling enterprises, several for-profit recyclers, and dozens of commercial companies.

It also has a large stake in the distribution and sale of used clothes in many parts of the world. In some countries, such as Mozambique, it has a virtual monopoly.

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  Humana  

Europe (since 1977)

Humana Alert dossier in preparation

Closed down in Britain by UK Charity Commission (1997)

Humana People-to-People headquarters in Zimbabwe

Humana People-to-People website

  Tvind charity boxes  

  Gaia  

USA and Britain

Read the Humana Alert dossier

 

Chicago Tribune two-part investigation into Gaia (12/12/04)

Gaia website

  UFF  

Scandinavia

The Valdelin Report, showed that only two per cent of the money raised by the organisation actually went to charity.

  Planet Aid Inc - USA  

USA and Canada

Toronto Star: 'Charity collected gave $1.7m, gave $0 (26/4/02)

  Green World Recycling - UK  

Britain

Read the new Humana Alert dossier

Independent on Sunday investigation into Green World (17/12/2000)

 

  U'SAgain  

United States. For-profit TG used-clothes company registered in Chicago. U'SAgain is a subsidiary of the major Tvind operating company and agro-business Fairbank, Cooper and Lyle, which owns and operates the TG 'slave' plantations in the Caribbean and central America. Read our dossier on U'SAgain >>>

  Planet Aid, UK Ltd  

Commercial used clothes collection

Corby, Northants. Since 1998.

Company details.

In 2006, supermarket chain Asda banned Planet Aid from its car parks. Read article