Clarks Shoes to use factory

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 3

Clarks Shoes to use factory

(A’.Z Press Assocmtion) ( NEW PLYMOUTH, ; April 16. i Clarks Shoes. Europe’s 1 ibiggest footwear manufac- J frer, has decided to use the ] factory of the bankrupt] (Devon Footwear Company |to make shoes in New Piyimouth. Il I Clarks footwear has been] made in the factory for the) last month under a tempor-: ary arrangement, with the i Cornish Group, of which] iDevon Footwear was a sub-1 Isidiary. Mr J. H. Clark, managing-] director of Clarks Shoes N.Z. Ltd, Auckland, said in a statement on Thursday that]; | the company now believed it] Icould establish a profitable , permanent operation. The temporary arrange-] . ment with the statutory ; manager of the Cornish] ’Group (Mr R. W. Stannard)] ,jempires on April 30 a..d in] i, the meantime Mr Clark will ’ ]start negotiations for long-; term use of all or part [i the extensive Devon factory j [land facilities. .I Mr Clark said he cot Id] I see no reason why the nego-i ; tiations should not be suc- ; cessful. , Prices up. - The first of] i the new season’s New Ze?-] stand apples sol in Europe, i'and Brit t this week at] ; prices about $1.85 a carton • above last season's opening | f rates, the Apple and Pear' Marketing b .rd reported.] • (P.A.). 1 Y'