Fashion giant H&M to redirect suppliers to make masks, gowns and gloves for doctors

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Fashion giant H&M to redirect suppliers to make masks, gowns and gloves for doctors

By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter

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Fashion giant H&M will redirect its suppliers to manufacture thousands of masks, gowns and gloves for doctors. 

It said it would use its ‘purchasing opera- tions’ and transport networks to deliver masks to hospitals ‘as soon as possible’. 

The firm may also buy kit from existing mask manufacturers in its bid to help fight coronavirus. 

H&M will redirect its suppliers to manufacture thousands of masks, gowns and gloves for doctors and use its ‘purchasing operations’ and transport networks to deliver them

Helena Helmersson, who took over as chief executive in January, said: ‘We see this as a first step in our efforts to support in any way we can.’ 

This week Louis Vuitton’s parent LVMH ordered 40m masks from China for France, after switching its cosmetics factories to making hand sanitiser. 

Yesterday Brew Dog, a British craft beer company, delivered hand sanitiser made at its distilleries to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary’s Intensive Care Unit. 

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