It prefers neglected companies, some in dowdy sectors like textiles.
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The analysis predicts lower-tech manufacturing like textiles and apparel will stay overseas, while more complex products, like electronics and automobiles, might be more likely to be made in the United States.
And that's going to require improving our schools, that's going to require improving the infrastructure in Haiti, that's going to require providing the ability of Haitians to sell their products like textiles into advanced countries at an advantageous situation so that they can start rebuilding their commerce and their industry.
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Right now Europe also seems ahead in developing nanotechnology to create materials for industries like cosmetics and textiles.
The bankruptcies were led by unionized companies that, like airlines and textiles and Detroit, had negotiated pay and benefits that helped drive their employers under.
Another bargain: the U.K.-based BBA Group, a conglomerate that makes hydraulic equipment, services aircraft and manufactures nonwoven textiles for things like diapers.
The 69-year-old Ross amassed his fortune as a shrewd financier who bought up distressed companies in tired industries like coal, steel and textiles, cleaned up their balance sheets, improved management, then sold them for profits.
Part and parcel of this has been the offshoring of low wage assembly work like the electronics to China, textiles to Bangladesh and Cambodia.
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What has changed is how we are using new technology like 3D Printers, microcontrollers and advanced materials and e-textiles to breathe new life into how we think about and create fashion and then instantly share it and remix it.
Its fortunes, like those of most of North Carolina, centred on tobacco and textiles: in 1940 60% of the city's populace worked for one of the Hanes textile companies or for R.
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He was also, like his father, a dedicated Orientalist with a roving eye for the textiles of cultures past and present.
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Countries like India, Bangladesh and Indonesia, are taking a growing share of the export market for textiles, footwear and many hard goods, but China is still the leader in each of those categories.
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