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Embroidery Company Closes Due to Lack of Business
Tuesday 09th of January 2007 08:52:26 PM
Sahara Sportswear will be closing within four months due to a lack of customers. The former part of the National Centre for Employment of the Disabled (NCED) is part of Paloma Industries, a non-profit garment manufacturer and sewing contractor. They severed connections with the NCED last summer, after they were re-organised into ReadyOne Industries.
The reorganisation was triggered when the CEO of the NCED, Robert “Bob” Jones, became the target of a federal investigation, alongside a federal investigation into the NCED’s federal contracts.
Despite requirements for 75% of all work on federal contracts to be completed by disabled people, only 10% of the work was completed in this manner. Federal officers have raided NCED offices and businesses related to the company, and have taken testimonies and documents from two school superintendents concerning Access HealthSource, a former part of the NCED.
Sahara are winding down operations now, after Paloma decided that not only was there no future in the business, due to a lack of customers, but also the Sahara had no part in their core business model, which is to provide employment for the disadvantaged.
The 12 employees that used to put the logos on embroidered shirts, embroidered caps, embroidered T-shirts and other sports items, for companies, schools and other organisations, will either be laid off, or absorbed into other parts of Paloma Industries. It is expected that the closure of Sahara Sportswear will affect neither the 100 other employees of Paloma Industries, nor the 1,188 employees of ReadyOne Industries.
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Good all round. Will order again.
Good all round. Will order again.
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