American firms in particular have long favoured Ireland as a place to set up factories and run service facilities thanks to its well-educated labour force and low corporate-tax rate.
More than 1.4 million were sold in two weeks and the manufacturer announced plans to set up two additional factories to keep pace with demand.
The ETS was originally set up in 2005 to cover factories and other land-based emitters of CO2, but was extended to cover aircraft at the start of the year.
Remember the auto factories set up in the South and Midwest by the Japanese?
Later, British entrepreneurs set up factories around Kolkata, building fortunes and fueling the city's growth.
India is helping set up industrial zones, small-business parks and factories in Tamil areas.
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Its factories were being transformed with the introduction of Japanese production methods, observed at close hand in the transplant factories set up by Nissan, Toyota and Honda in Britain.
Auto factories in Europe and Japan have long been set up to build cars to order, because European and Japanese customers order cars instead of picking them off the lot at auto malls.
True, too, several Israeli firms have set up factories, mainly for textiles, in low-wage Jordan and Egypt, and these are already showing promising profits.
When Whirlpool set up factories to make refrigerators, air-conditioners, washing machines and microwave ovens in China in 1994, it assumed that it was racing against other foreigners.
When we transitioned from an economy based on farms to one based on factories, and workers needed new skills and training, our nation set up a system of public high schools.
Remploy, which has 54 factories across the UK, was originally set up in the 1940s to offer sheltered and safe work for people with disabilities.
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