Mr. BARRY SMITH (owner, Louisiana Music Factoryrecord store in New Orleans): I'm very low-tech myself, and I know as far as our customers, we still do quite well with the records upstairs.
Rather than build a new factory elsewhere, the firm has tried to squeeze the most out of its existing investment at Betim: total daily output from the factory reached a record of 2, 345 cars in April this year (of which almost 1, 500 were Palios), up from only 750 a day in 1991.