research and design Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — IT/Retail/Services/Design & Merchandising, production & distribution Toronto, Ontario, Canada — International sales & marketing team Nygård also had a flagship fashion concept store in New York City's Times Square, which opened in 2009. The corporation also had manufacturing facilities in Shanghai, Tianjin, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Mexico. Nygård International's board consisted of Peter Nygård himself and two division presidents. Brands and retail outlets Nygård International had multiple product lines, including ALIA and TanJay. The Nygård Fashions brands included Peter Nygård Collections, Bianca Nygård, and Nygård SLIMS. Nygård Moderate also had three national brands that were exclusively available at Dillard's in the United States. Retail stores carrying Nygård brands included Walmart, Costco, Winners, and Belks, as well as a number of small independent stores across North America. In February 2020, Dillard's dropped Nygård products due to allegations of Peter Nygård being involved with rape and sex-trafficking. Fashion and technology Throughout the 2000s, Nygård International used the slogan "Where Fashion Meets Technology." The company developed an electronic purchase-order system that automated and streamlined the processing of vendor transactions. Using Microsoft .NET Framework and Internet Information Services in conjunction with Nygård's enterprise software solution from Epicor, the system linked manufacturing with a network of Nygård's retail accounts to keep them fully stocked at all times, allowing reorders to be shipped the same day. Another system input information and put out a use of pattern and material that reduced fabric-cutting time substantially. Microsoft would go on to use Nygård International as the subject of a case study highlighting the early adoption of their software. Moreover, the company has won numerous technology-related awards, including the 2007 Most Innovative VICS CPFR Implementation, and 2009 BeyeNETWORK Vision Award for Business Impact. Alleged sweatshop In late April 2010, the National Labor Committee (NLC) issued a report claiming that Nygård pants from its Alia line were being sewn in a sweatshop in Al-Zarqa, Jordan, called International British Garments (IBG). According to the investigation, the factory employed 1,200 guest workers (mostly young women) from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and India who had "been trafficked to Jordan, stripped of their passports and held under conditions of indentured servitude." The report said that women were forced to work 15-hour shifts, 7 days a week, and were paid only half of what they were owed. The IBG sweatshop in Jordan is owned by G4S, the largest security