![]() “Yes, we wanted to solve our reputation problem,” says Dhanin Chearavanont, CP Group’s Senior Chairman. But the horrors of the slave trade were too big to ignore. The first would have been the easier path and might have even satisfied most of its customers. It chose the more unusual route of tackling the practice of forced labor in the Asian fishing industry. The company faced a choice: cut ties with “problematic” suppliers and walk away, or take a stand. When the story broke, the company was shocked, as were its customers, who began canceling orders. In 2014, The Guardian made a connection between the farmed shrimp produced by the large Thailand-based conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group and the practice of slave labor on “ghost” ships operating far out in the Gulf of Thailand, often for years at a time without coming to port. But an investigation found that some of them were not working out of choice: they were slaves, working to survive. The men on these boats work hard for long hours. ![]() Workers unload fish and ice it to keep it fresh. In the middle of the night, fishing boats arrive with their catch in large blue plastic barrels. Songkhla Pier in Southern Thailand is a port that never sleeps. Email Charoen Pokphand group’s Senior Chairman and CEO, father and son, talk to Brunswick’s Will Carnwath about taking on the fight against slave labor ![]()
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