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Salad days - a new leaf for Japan’s steel economy

Jim Riley

20th March 2009

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What a terrific example of creative thinking from a leading Japanese steel cable producer. The bottom might have fallen out of the steel cable market, but that doesn’t mean that a newly constructed factory has to go to waste. Even in the depths of a global depression, people will still demand salad!

Japanese factory diversifies into salad production

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.