Our revised and updated dossier on the Trayton Group in Shanghai, and its associated companies in the United States and elsewhere. The Trayton Group is run by Teachers Group member Simon Lichtenberg, and manufactures sofas which are sold in within China and all over the world. Lichtenberg has denied his company is a ‘Teachers Group company’, but admits passing more than $1m a year to Tvind.
Do timber and raw materials for Chinese furniture manufacture come from the Teachers Group’s controversial forest plantation in Brazil – acquired in the 1990s and the subject of subsequent police inquiries ?
OUR DOSSIER ON THE TEACHERS GROUP