Jost-Stefan Heinig (born 1962Tageszeitung

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Interview with Stefan Heinig (14 September 2007) in

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) is CEO of the major

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company KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH from

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. KiK came under pressure by dumping salaries and abusing female workers in Bangladesh and other Third World countries. Heinig participates with his Dortmund Firma H. H. Holding GmbH by 65% from TEDi and with 15% an KiK. The main shareholder of KiK is the company Tengelmann International GmbH from

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with a stake of 83.02%. In July 2010 Heinig together with Karl-Erivan Haub, co-owner of Tengelmann, bought the German branch of

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, insolvent

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After finishing the Realschule, Heinig served his apprenticeship as a trading assistant.verbraucherInfoTV, Panorama
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