Updated: American Apparel stumbles upon organic cotton purchase

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Source claims supply chain issues hampered retailer's plans to buy organic cotton

American Apparel has this week purchased 30,000 pounds of organic cotton from a Californian sustainable cotton program. The Los Angeles-based company purchased the cotton through the Sustainable Cotton...

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