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Job losses announced at NZ tannery

06/09/2006

New Zealand sheepskin tannery, G.L. Bowron, has announced that it is to cut 120 jobs at the end of the month.

According to the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, the redundancies at the Christchurch tannery is a consequence of New Zealand manufacturers having to compete with the cost base of low cost countries in the global market.

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