One report said as many as 300 factories had closed in the Ashulia industrial area near Dhaka.
Whether any of the factories inside the Rana Plaza complex were involved in such practices is not clear.
Productivity may be higher in Japan, but factories struggle with high taxes, high utility costs and costly shipping.
During World War II, the Bay area was home to more than 30 shipyards, machine shops and factories.
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The retailer also has said it has stationed employees in factories to monitor and test products.
The company needs to take some drastic steps to make its car factories profitable.
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Since the collapse, he has ordered checks on the structure of factories they use.
The people who work in America's factories used to be the stalwarts of the Democratic party.
Using modern factories, the employment need could be brought down around half a million.
By altering the bacteria's genes, they were able to transform the bugs into fuel-producing factories.
It's owned by Exxon Mobil and it's set in a sprawling city of factories.
In Bangladesh, factories are run by suppliers who are independent of the global brands.
Well that is good, because the company will own a productive resource, its factories.
Such ploys are equivalent to keeping our factories geared to war production in peacetime.
Retailers can't catch everything that goes on in factories or fully track their suppliers.
Henry Ford's automated car-assembly line spawned a galaxy of parts factories filled with workers.
Other factories producing staple foods are being inspected, and ordered to concentrate on making price-controlled goods.
Construction of homes, offices and factories fell by 16.6% in October, according to Macquarie Securities.
Ethicists on the left have worried that it might turn women into egg-production factories.
Some of that pricing pressure could be relieved if Detroit closed a few more factories.
The job losses will affect factories in Leeds, Newcastle, Leicester and Barrow and Telford in Shropshire.
One of these sweatshop factories had made clothes destined for the UK in recent months.
In addition, those subsidiaries are key players in the supply chain for factories in Japan.
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He ordered luxury models for the line, too, and new factories to build the luxury models.
Detroit would want imported automobiles barred from the country and foreign-owned U.S. factories closed down.
Ford, limping through a turnaround effort, needs to close factories and shed excess hourly workers.
On Monday the government announced a panel that would inspect garment factories for building flaws.
It's home to the world's largest factories where many of today's most popular gadgets are made.
"Garments factories are no longer like they used to be, " said BGMEA Vice-President Shahidullah Azim.
The law prohibits children under 14 from working in factories, slaughterhouses or other dangerous locations.
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