Manufacturing
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Reaping rewards
Entrepreneurial spirit and loyal locals are helping to nurture Vancouver’s budding businesses, whether they are making sake, hardy footwear or chocolate. Monocle finds a city investing in itself and enjoying the benefits.
Engine boom
Turkey’s automotive production centre is the country’s engineering triumph but it has yet to lay claim to a homegrown product. Monocle traces the city’s rich history and hopes for a Bursa brand.
Striking gold
At a small workshop in London’s Hatton Garden jewellery district, master goldsmith Gareth Harris oversees the production of fine metalwork while passing on time-honoured skills to his apprentice, Stavros Constantinou.
Home fires
Outsourcing production overseas often means a loss of provenance, craft and quality. Monocle visits the Finnish factories bringing it all back home.
Vive le béret!
Monocle pays a visit to the last béret-maker in France and meets the Irishman trying to revive this quintessentially French piece of headwear.
Business
Citizens regeneration in Detroit, salmon selling in Alaska and other business news and views.
On the make
Naples is said to exemplify both the best and worst of Italy. Monocle discovers the city's spirited heart of craft and industry, speaking to the ‘artigiani’ committed to their dear city.
Task masters
Decisive, outspoken, innovative, inspiring, bold; Monocle speaks to the steel magnate, hotelier, vintner, electricity group head and fashion distributor setting their own agenda.
Moving with the times
Molteni&C, an illustrious furniture company with 80 years of experience, is calling on its know-how to keep up with a fast-changing design industry while modernising with its values intact.
Cycle chain
Emilio Aldo Renesto is a steelwork specialist whose frames are one of the first links in northern Italy’s small yet sturdy bicycle industry.
