just-style management briefing: Manufacturing winners and losers in 2011
By Keith Nuthall | 19 December 2011
Established skills and tradition were not enough to save some apparel makers from layoffs and factory closures in 2011. But acquisitions, an environmental focus and international expansion helped others to build on a solid recovery from the recession.
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