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...The company was founded just six years ago, when the site of its auto factory two hours from Hanoi was swampland....
...My grandfather, who died when I was in my early 20s, had owned furniture factories since the 1940s....
...The newest-looking piece of street furniture I encounter on leaving the bus station is the colourful Knife Amnesty bin....
...“Our buying power with both factories and shipping lines has insulated us from some of the wild fluctuations in prices,” he said....
...Gower Furniture was a name that came up in my conversations with locals....
...FontanaArte, the lighting and furniture company he founded with designer Pietro Chiesa, provided other creative outlets (iconic designs ensued, such as his Bilia and Pirellone lamps and the Tavolino 1932...
...The Swedish furniture chain owns 16 factories in the country, and contracts many more. Between 2010 and 2015 Ikea invested more than 3.4bn zlotys ($897m) in Poland....
...The clear technology leader for battery-powered cars, Tesla is outpacing legacy competitors as they struggle to retool factories and perfect software....
...This eliminated the cost of shipping from the factory to the retail outlet, significantly reduced transport damage and offloaded some of the costs of putting the furniture together to the client....
...such as the Dollar Tree discount chain and Harbor Freight tool outlets....
...Many of the factories and artisans they met would go on to supply their raw materials....
...In the raw spaces opened by bombing or areas where docks and factories were going out of use, commercial towers and luxury apartment blocks were rising....
...At the Glasgow factory, hides are pummelled, stretched, dried, treated with flame retardant and dyed an impressive range of colours....
...Mr Wu was detained in May 2013 during a march by workers from his furniture-factory employer....
...For some designers and design brands the UK’s digital printing facilities are more relevant than its factories....
...That means not just designing the product in California but developing it with Asian suppliers on the factory floor....
...Mr Chen, the Dongguan furniture factory owner, said he sees the US as “a new battlefield” for business as growth starts to flatten at his China factory operations....
...And Muscovites treat them like that: amazingly, the public furniture gets neither stolen nor vandalised....
...Other weak links include the logistics companies delivering food from factory to restaurant, and regulators with cozy ties to the factories they oversee....
...The company has 70 retail outlets abroad, from New York and Madrid to Jeddah, Seoul and 15 cities in China....
...Unlike Ikea, for example, Made.com does not own any factories. Instead, it commissions factories to meet its orders by guaranteeing them a minimum level of work....
...Furniture sales and sales of building materials were up for the third consecutive month. But some economists were less upbeat....
...You don’t turn a café waiter into a factory worker or a shop assistant into a healthcare specialist overnight. It’s a painful yet inescapable part of the transition to higher growth.”...
...Paul Rand, a graphic designer, was commissioned to create IBM’s logo and he went on to attempt to bring all the corporation’s outlets, warehouses and factories into aesthetic line....
...Going to the factory, Bon-Ace, is quite an undertaking....
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