The company that manufactures carpets, furniture, mattresses, carpet underlays, footwear, plastics, knitwear and carpet yarns, cordage, scoured wool, wool tops and last year exported 80% of all New Zealand's carpet exports and 70% of all textile exports is NOT Felt and Textiles of New Zealand Limited .... it's What started as a company yarns - and secured contracts manufacturing felt slippers in that created world interest 1929 has expanded and de- and prestige for New Zealveloped far beyond the con- and's manufacturing capabilfines of just being 'Felt and it ies. For many years, most Textiles . Riccarton carpets, o f our f r j ent | s have been callDon furniture, Knight foot- ing us F& T . A simp | e and wear, Lynn laces lines and e „ ective abbreviation, of ropes, Nafco floor tiles, Tat- ' irc!O tersfield carpets and mat- c° urse ' *ind it avoided the tresses —branded products 'ncongruity of a name that that are nationally recognized applied to only part of our for their quality and styling operations. We have grown are being produced in our t 0 like it—so much so, that factories in Auckland, Wan- we've decided to make it the ganui, Marton, Wellington, real thing, not just the abbrevLower Hutt, Upper Hutt and iation. As from today. Felt Christchurch. In 1962, when and Textiles of New Zealand some people thought it was Limited no longer exists, impossible, we pioneered the From now on, we're just plain export of carpet and carpet F& T New Zealand Limited * F 8c T New Zealand Limited incorporates the following divisions: F 8c T Distributors Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. F 8c T Footwear Lower Hutt, Christchurch (previously Knight Footwear Co.). F 8c T Footwear Sales, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch (previously N.Z. Footwear Distributors). F 8c T Carpets (N.Z.) Limited Auckland, Christchurch, Lower Hutt (previously CMC (N.Z.) Limited, Tufted Carpets (N.Z.) Limited, Tattersfield Brinton Carpets Limited). F 8c T Wools Limited Marton (previously Kakariki Wools Limited). F 8c T Furniture Auckland, Levin (previously Craftex Limited, Steelweb Upholstery Limited). F 8c T Underlays Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch (previously John Grant 8c Company, Auckland, Wanganui). F 8c T Felts Lower Hutt. F 8c T Plastics Upper Hutt, Auckland. F 8c T Cordage Auckland (previously Lynn Laces). F 8c T Spinning Wellington. F 8c T Bedding Auckland, Woodville (previously Tattersfield Limited). Francis Willey (New Zealand) Limited Christchurch (Branch of F 8c T Wools). John Grant 8c Company Wellington. T.J. Davenport and Sons Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31724, 6 July 1968, Page 20
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