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Re: New LEGO factory inaugurated
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:18:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.lego, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > In lugnet.lego, Mark de Kock writes:
> > > In lugnet.lego, Adrian Drake writes:
> > > > So they are closing US operations while opening a new factory in the Czech
> > > > Republic? I guess labor's cheaper there.
> > > >
> > > > Adrian
> > > > --
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> But in a way, it's not necessarily a cut on Americans--after
> all, they didn't put the factory in Britain, France, or the
> Netherlands, did they? I have a feeling it has to do with
> the startup costs, the labour costs, *and* the labour *laws*...
> something we might not like to think about (the possibility
> of LEGO exploiting labour). But it is notable that they didn't
> try to go well outside the EU.
Plus Reading the press release it might have something to do with transport
costs. After all I once heard the Czech Republic being described as the
crossroads of Europe.- i.e It's convenient for most of the EU AND for
Eastern Europe that accoroding to the BBC's reporting is planning to join
the EU eventually.
On a side note, Now Lego is in the Czech republic Can we look forward to a
revival of Castle and maybe Town? Albiet the castle and building sbut in a
Bavarian style but then I think that's more easily done in Lego(R) bricks?
Comments?
Alex
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> best
> LFB
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| (...) Perhaps it's meant as an ironic comment. As an American living in the Netherlands, I can tell you that they don't work any harder here than they do at home. [1] (If anything, 5:00pm is even *more* sacrosanct here--the traffic pulse is (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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