Memories of Stoke-on-Trent people - Ken
Green
Ken Green
A
Life in the Ceramic Tile Industry
section 10
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Visitors to our factories were usually taken around by members of the sales staff or by members of the personnel department, according to the visitor’s background. If the visitor was from a foreign tile company I was usually the guide.I also guided many visitors from various parts of the world, especially South America, who had come to seek our collaboration in tile making ventures in their home countries.
Personally, I would have jumped at the opportunity but it was completely alien to company policy. Manufacture was to remain rooted in, and to provide employment in, Stoke-on-Trent. Jobs were not to be exported. And so it remained until our hand was forced! Attitudes changed little from 1948 to 1958. There seemed little reason to think things would change. But change they did!
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