Later, British entrepreneurs set up factories around Kolkata, building fortunes and fueling the city's growth.
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.
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.
Rather than set up somewhere new, it would have been cheaper to stay in Derby, which has close links to suppliers, some of which have set up factories nearby.
It can set up automated factories across the border that manufacture at costs comparable to China.
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In the 1990s foreign investors set up textile factories to supply the United States market.
The TMC continues to oppose forced acquisition of land which means it will not be easy to set up large factories.
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.
Remember the auto factories set up in the South and Midwest by the Japanese?
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.
That is favoured by exporters, including the clothing factories which set up in El Salvador a decade ago, attracted by tax breaks.
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.
India is helping set up industrial zones, small-business parks and factories in Tamil areas.
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One is to set up an intranet for purchasing plastic resin globally, allowing factories to arbitrage between spot prices in the U.S. and Eastern Europe.
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.
American firms had closed their factories on this side of the border to set up shop in Mexico.
Rose wants to get involved with larger, more complicated international shipments: delivering the staging for the Beijing Olympics, helping set up satellite-receiver stations in remote locations or moving entire factories.
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.
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.
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