Singer Tom Jones and actress Emma Thomson are the two unexpected leaders of the campaign against the closing of the Burberry factory in Treorchy, Wales (see story n°061056). With Prince Charles, baritone Bryn Terfel and actor Ioan Gruffudd, all the more embarrassing for the brand because he advertised for it in 2005, they answered a trade union call to save the 300 jobs of the site, that is to say one third of Burberry's manpower in Great Britain. (Ref. 070059)
The production is already largely sub-contracted in Asia, and that of Treorchy should leave for China in March. “Having grown up here, I know the importance of this factory for the region. I exhort management to give up its project of closing “, said Tom Jones, raised in Pontypridd, a few kilometres from the site.
The royal seal and the Church, guarantors of corporate social responsibility. The mobilization is intensifying against the group which symbolizes British chic. The local deputy asked y
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