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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Wearing Apparel 14.1 - Manufacture Of Wearing Apparel, Except Fur Apparel
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
20 July 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
1 December 2016
Description
The Spanish clothing company Mango has announced the intention to reshore production currently based in Asia (India, China, Bangladesh and South East Asia) to Europe (Spain, Italy and Turkey). Several clothing companies in Europe are adopting the same backshoring strategy thanks to the benefits brought by new technologies like robots, 3D printers and body scanner. Mango claims that the main reason for its backshoring is to develop new collections every two weeks, instead of three weeks as before. This requires shortening the value chain and moving production closer to markets.
Eurofound (2016), Mango, Reshoring in Spain, factsheet number 172, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/172.
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