Dundee Textiles Industry, 1960-1977. Decline and diversification
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- Author(s) Howe, W Stewart
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1982
- Pages 184pp; illus
- Publisher Aberdeen University Press
- Place Published Aberdeen
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Diversification strategies
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work derived from the writer's doctoral thesis 'Dundee Jute Industry. An economic organisation study', Dundee College of Technology, 1982. Provides, inter alia, an analysis of major changes in the market confronted by the industrial industry from 1945 but especially from 1966, and its response to them including the diversification strategies of industry leaders. Diversification case studies are provided for Low & Bonar Group Ltd; Sidlaw Industries Ltd; Caird (Dundee) Ltd ; Scott & Robertson Ltd; Thomson Shepherd & Co. In part based on interviews with the industry's senior management. Chapters include: 'Historical background to 1945'; 'Analysis of changing markets and industry structure'; 'Diversification'; 'Economic performance'