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Bloomberg reporters went to Burkina Faso, Africa where Victoria's Secret usually buys fair trade and organic-certified cotton crop to make the lingerie it sells. Reporters there found 13-year-old children laboring in the fields in pain from being beaten with switches by their bosses, the cotton farmers.

Ron Mis sees Galeton as the Dell Computer of the work gear industry: manufacturing and marketing its own product line to a loyal fan base. Mis, owner and president, likens Galeton’s business model to that of a true direct marketer, with cost advantages that a manufacturer enjoys when it sells its own goods direct to end-users. By selling direct in this way, Mis explains, it “makes our business truer to the original concept of a direct marketer than many who call themselves that today. Many who say they’re direct marketers actually are distributors of other manufacturers’ products,” he explains. Thus Massachusetts-based Galeton both

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