"It marks the end of an era for one of Wrexham's traditional industries, " he said.
In the Midwest the surge in foreclosures and the collapse of traditional industries has hardened hearts.
Many Costa Ricans work in traditional industries, such as bananas, coffee and other sorts of farming.
Mobile technology is on the verge of transforming other traditional industries including education and health, among others.
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In Wales, despite the loss of jobs in mining and other traditional industries, there was record inward investment.
Cornwall, in particular, has been badly affected by the decline of traditional industries such as clay and tin.
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As well as reflecting changing consumer tastes, the decline in club numbers mirrors the decline of traditional industries.
Fashion houses such as Ferragamo and Gucci are headquartered here, and traditional industries such as shoemaking, glass making and jewellery are going strong.
New foreign investment in manufacturing has helped offset the loss of jobs in traditional industries in shipbuilding, steel and coal in the 1980s.
What quickly emerged was Stelios' "easy" method of reengineering traditional industries: Strip out unnecessary costs and bolt on the efficiencies of new technologies.
To bring things more down to earth, we decided to assess the profit-making ability of small businesses in a variety of more traditional industries.
For instance, industrial parks in China today want large companies to go in, not smaller ones, especially those in traditional industries without (desired) technology.
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Hargreaves chief executive Gordon Banham said his company was pleased to have the opportunity to help rebuild a future for one of Scotland's traditional industries.
Even companies slated under traditional industries on our list, like finance or retail, are finding their niches by applying technology to long stagnant business models.
We're slipping behind in some traditional industries like the nuclear industry.
The other, located largely in the southeast, Texas and the Heartland, makes its living in more traditional industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to fossil fuel development.
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If a country's comparative advantage lies in slow-growing, traditional industries, it may cut back its production in other, faster-growing industries, so its growth rate may fall.
It would be easy to pin it all on Margaret Thatcher and the ongoing folk memory of what happened to the north's traditional industries in the 1980s.
U.S., European and Japanese companies involved in more traditional industries have less access to capital these days and may be less likely strategic buyers than in the past.
Traditional industries on the island once relied on natural resources.
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"It will further enable the transition of the local economy from one of traditional industries, such as agriculture, to a modern, high technology based economy, building on strong existing foundations".
The map of qualifying areas, which are supposed to be struggling to deal with the consequences of declining traditional industries, is also being scaled down at the behest of Brussels.
In a notable development, traditional industries such as industrial products and automotive together made up 40 percent of the list, comparable to the percentage that the technology industry held in 2010.
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Also, with Internet as with some other new-technology businesses, the creation of temporary monopolies or near-monopolies that permit the creaming-off of high returns may be easier to achieve than it is in most traditional industries.
For at a time when Italy's traditional industries, like clothing and footwear, are reeling in the face of global competition, Tod's is a rare example of an Italian footwear company that is going from strength to strength.
Italy is the fourth largest European economy and for long enjoyed one of the highest per capita incomes in Europe, despite the decline in traditional industries such as textiles and car manufacturing as a result of globalisation.
The 50 areas announced on Monday included the village of Lynemouth, in Northumberland, which has experienced a significant decline in traditional industries such as mining and recently saw over 500 jobs lost through the closure of a factory.
Traditional industries such as steel and chemical makers are opposed to any action because they are afraid it will create a precedent for what they see as interference with free market dynamics that will only add costs to their balance sheets.
Traditional German industries like cars and machine-tools have made themselves fit by shedding hundreds of thousands of workers.
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