New Zealand-based Weft Knitwear managing director Hugh Douglas is sick of people asking about his business as if it were an inmate on death row.rn"The number of redundancies that have occurred, just in this street, have obviously been very bad for the image of our industry. My friends will come up to me and say, 'how are you doing?', like I'm on death row," he said.rnWeft's industrial neighbourhood in Sydenham used to include Lane Walker Rudkin (LWR) and Pacific Brands, but both factories are now empty.
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