In the press: Britain鈥檚 textile industry gets an unexpected boost from COVID-19
Marketplace.org. 13 April 2020
Kate Hills features in an article on marketplace.org regarding the impact of Covid-19 on British manufacturing.
Kate Hills of Make It British, a manufacturing advocacy group, said that British clothing retailers and brands are now focused on sourcing their fabrics domestically 鈥渟o that in future the whole garment can be made in the U.K.鈥�
When the disease finally recedes, won鈥檛 all these supply chain anxieties subside, too? Hills thinks not.
鈥淚 think the coronavirus is going to change the clothing industry鈥檚 mindset,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he industry will ask, 鈥楧o you want all your products made somewhere like China, or should you spread your risk and start making at least a percentage of your products much closer to homer, in the U.K.?鈥欌��
One of the biggest economic casualties of the crisis could be the international supply chain, and that, Hills believes, will help Britain鈥檚 textile manufacturers.
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