THE OUTSOURCING/NEARSOURCING/RESHORING STRUGGLE WITHIN THE PROTECTIVE AND PERFORMANCE TEXTILE SEGMENTS
December 2nd, 2021
INTRODUCTION
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a reassessment of the model of relying on one or two outsourcing locations. It has demonstrated that when there is a major disruption caused by an emergency as serious as a pandemic, shipping and industrial processing can be disrupted. So, brands have been seriously considering creating a more diversified sourcing base – so that if something goes wrong in one location, there is another location to draw on for product. This has happened in parallel with the development of robotics and higher tech digital ...
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