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An illusion to think shoes are about cheap labour

10/04/2025

Executive chairman of retail group JD Sport, Andy Higginson, has cast doubt on the ability of the US to end its reliance on manufacturing partners in Asia for products including athletic shoes. He said it did look to him as though the US was intent on becoming “more isolationist”, but added that, for sports shoes, the matter was more complex than ...

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