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| Sunday, 14 July 2002 |
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Agreement to export knitwear Dale Craft Knit (Pvt) Ltd has signed an agreement with the Board of Investment (BoI) to manufacture knitwear (sweaters) for the export market. The agreement was signed by Sturle Harald Padersen, CEO Dale Craft Knit and Arjuna Mahendran, Chairman and Director General of the BoI. Dale of Norway, the official Olympic outfitter for the Norwegian winter Olympic team, first came to Sri Lanka in the early 1980s. Sri Lanka was one of the countries the company was looking at as knitting, which was introduced to the country by the British, continues to be popular. The British way of knitting consists of using separate needles. The front and back are done separately and then joined with a seam. The traditional Scandinavian knitting method uses two needles joined with a wire. The knitter knits in circles and both the front and back can be done at once, so that the final product will be seamless. Dale's main factory is located at Kolonnawa. In addition to the 17 knitting centres under the company's purview in various parts of the island, 400 girls hand-knit the entire Dale Exclusive Collection of premium woollen clothing for the European and American markets. The mother company that is Dale of Norway has been granted exclusive rights to develop and offer officially licensed sweaters and accessories bearing the Olympic emblem consisting of five rings. |
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