{"id":159387,"date":"2017-10-09T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/ms-hosiery-production-may-return-to-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:47:45","slug":"ms-hosiery-production-may-return-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/ms-hosiery-production-may-return-to-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;S hosiery production may return to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marks &amp; Spencer is said to be in talks to help support <strong>a Northern Irish company which is hoping to resurrect its former hosiery production factory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Adria was founded in 1961 by Rolph Nockswith and <strong>was M&amp;S's major hosiery supplier for many years<\/strong> but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/northern_ireland\/4882614.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was closed in 2006 <\/a>after the business was sold to Quantum Clothing Group, who moved production to Turkey, then Bangladesh and finally Cambodia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2017\/10\/07\/marks-spencer-tights-may-made-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em> reports<\/a>. In its heyday the business had bases in\u00a0Londonderry, Newry and Strabane employing more than 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Nockswith's son Adrian is hoping to resurrect the factory at its old site\u00a0in Strabane, Co Tyrone, and is <strong>in talks with M&amp;S CEO Steve Rowe about returning production to the planned hi-tech plant<\/strong>. Rowe is understood to be keen to return production to the UK where possible.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Nockswith told the newspaper that the factory would be highly automated with technology that is expected to cost between \u00a32m and \u00a33m. He said the resurrection of the plant <strong>would boost the local economy, which has one of the highest levels of unemployment in the country<\/strong>. Despite the high level of automation new jobs would be created for engineers, support staff, transport and logistics workers.<\/p>\n<p>Local newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/strabanechronicle.com\/2016\/04\/adria-could-be-on-the-way-back-to-strabane\/\">the <em>Strabane Chronicle<\/em> first reported that Adrian Nockswith was considering resurrecting Adria<\/a> last spring when he <strong>registered a new company called Adria 2 Ltd<\/strong>. At that time he said he was in the early stages of assessing the feasibility of the project and said he wanted to harness the local know-how of how to make ladies tights \"quite literally before it dies\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":130978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10585,6],"tags":[12348,12350,9908,3211,8371,12349,9998],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>M&amp;S hosiery production may return to the UK - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marks &amp; Spencer is said to be in talks to help support a Northern Irish company which is hoping to resurrect its former hosiery production factory.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/ms-hosiery-production-may-return-to-the-uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"M&amp;S hosiery production may return to the UK - TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marks &amp; 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