Thirty jobs are being cut at a shirt factory in Derry, management confirmed today.
The redundancies at the Graham Hunter plant at Springtown will see the workforce cut by almost a third.
The company specialises in manufacturing uniforms for public authorities.
At present it employs 94 people at the Springtown premises and 18 in another factory in Birmingham.
Sales director Simon Hunter said the competition from overseas had made it increasingly difficult to manufacture in Northern Ireland.
He said the Derry factory remained the largest of its type in the British Isles and said manufacturing would continue there for the foreseeable future.
"We are investing in a flexible training programme that will help to sustain manufacturing jobs that remain," he said.
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