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Rising leather prices can't dampen Stella's optimism

27/08/2014

High-end footwear manufacturer Stella International is to set up a factory in the Freeport Area of Bataan that will create an initial 5,000 jobs.

The Taiwanese company supplies shoes to major brands including Clarks, Deckers, ECCO, Rockport, Timberland and Wolverine and is planning to increase the workforce at the new site to 10,000 when it is up and running, according to Bataan’s mayor, Jose Enrique Garcia III.

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