Sunday, August 5, 2012

Chasidic hats - made in Spain

NYTimes  But despite the Spanish economic crisis, the hat company is thriving, thanks to an unlikely revenue base: the sales of thousands of black hats each year to Satmar Hasidic Jews in Jerusalem and Brooklyn.

“They are saving us in the crisis,” said Miguel García Gutiérrez, 35, the managing director of the Roche factory, officially known as Industrias Sombrereras Españolas, which operates in an industrial park in Salteras, about nine miles outside Seville. “We have an important market in Spain for traditional hats, but with the crisis those sales have fallen for the last three years, between 20 and 30 percent. But our exports are rising for hats for Orthodox Jews.”

3 comments :

  1. I guess the inquisition did not involve Chasidim so the ban on doing business with Spain can be ignored along with all other things they choose to ignore.

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    1. What "ban on doing business with Spain"? No such ban exists.

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    2. Do your homework before blabbering off.

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