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Footie fanatics boon to garment makers
- Published: 25 Jun 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Business
Garment manufacturers are ramping up their production of European football clubs' jerseys to serve a flood of purchase orders despite the ongoing crisis in Europe.
Vallop Vitanakorn, secretary-general of the Thai Garment Manufacturers Association, said most of the orders are for giant teams such as Manchester United, Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Bayern Munich.
Prior to this, Thai manufacturers were also busy producing football jerseys for countries now competing in the 2012 Uefa European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine.
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