Leonie Barrie's apparel and textile industry blog - from just-style.comLeonie Barrie's apparel and textile industry blog - from just-style.comPringle heads for the hills- July 1, 2008 200-year-old luxury knitwear firm Pringle is so entrenched in the Scottish Border town of Hawick that its garments carry the 'Pringle of Scotland' label. But now it has decided to sever all but the most tenuous of links with the region and transfer production to Italy where, ironically, costs are said to be around 30% lower. About 80 jobs are expected go, with a skeleton team of around 30 being retained to staff the head office, finance and customer service departments. The company, though,...http://www.just-style.com/blogdetail.aspx?ID=1473 |