Frequently, it is not just a factory's output that its managers have sold on the black market but all its plant and equipment too, leaving a shell.
The third reason not to own a factory: Only the biggest companies can keep it busy enough.
Higher margins combined with more consistent revenue requires delivering smart services and products to clients, not just running a factory more efficiently.
In an age before intellectual specialisation, it was not uncommon for a factory owner to read philosophy or for a doctor to play the flute beautifully.
Although cuts at GM and Chrysler have removed some (though not enough) excess capacity in America, not a single car factory in Europe has closed so far.
Cho, 66, is the first to admit he prefers to wear not a suit and tie but a factory uniform, which he wore most days during his first 20 years at the company.
Their production is not a high-technology enterprise: a factory or laboratory that makes fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, or plastics can readily be adapted for the purpose.
However, we do not believe in terminating a factory because we find violations.
The news that a powerful carmaker would be forced to abandon a fully built factory and start over was stunning not only because of the staggering sunk costs of building a now-worthless factory.
The odour caused by the clean up of a former chemical factory site in Cambridgeshire has not caused a statutory nuisance, investigators say.
Although his factory is still not making a profit, the local partner wants to receive dividends because the study envisaged that the factory would be making money by then.
It's as if we're making plastic widgets in a factory, not dealing with pain and illness.
It is a scene out of Bosch, not a blueprint from an industrial factory.
He does because, unlike those other three would-be carmakers, he's not putting a penny into a factory.
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But for now, G24's factory in Cardiff, not a city known for its sunshine, remains powered by a wind turbine.
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After his offer was rejected, he said he was not given a proper chance to save the factory and that closure could have been avoided.
And they will often decide to go back to a different factory: or not to go back at all having done their few years and made their nest egg.
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Long gone are the days when a high school diploma could guarantee a job at a local factory -- not when so many of those factories had moved overseas.
It is not so easy for a company to move a factory (though, of course, hardly impossible).
The former investment banker has not been indolent: his department has been a factory for acronyms since the crisis began.
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"Let us not wait for 'them' to bring a factory to Wales and hope that jobs will be created - let us do it for ourselves, " she said.
The Australians did not recognise his Hungarian degrees, so he worked in a factory for several years and studied part-time until he gained some Aussie ones.
He plans to use the process to revolutionise the disposal of solar panels at his factory near Zwickau, and not only make a profit but also change how engineers and scientists chose to get hold of vital rare earths.
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The city's largest sake brewer decided to rebuild its factory not in Rikuzentakata, but in Ofunato, a less-damaged city nearby.
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Du Pont was so sure that his factory would not blow up that he lived within a stone's throw of the works.
Mr Sarkozy's visits to the factory floors are a bid to ensure this does not happen.
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So, news that the factory would go idle March 10th did not come as a shock to employee Cheryl Frager(ph).
There are varying reports about whether workers producing for Apple at a Foxconn factory in China have gone on strike or not.
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