Edward
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What would be a reason for a company to hide in which country their jackets are produced. Only reason I can think of is because they are produce in one of the low wages countries.
A lot of the market for this sort of thing do undeniably place qualitative value judgements on an item based solely on country of origin. I'm not talking about political issues (such as human rights concerns, or environmental issues like air-miles or low-wages), more about ephemeral perceptions like "Japan made good, China made bad". You could have a Chinese made jacket built by someone paid two fortunes of the most perfect hide, but you slap "Made in China" on that label, and there are a significant number of people would refuse to accept it could possibly be of any quality whatever, and swear blind something made to vastly lower standards must be better because it was made in the "First World". Equally, there will be people perfectly happy to buy something made in China - but because it's made in China, they'll expect to get it for next to nothing, even if that is less that cost.
Doesn't necessarily justify hiding where something is made, but I can well understand the frustration in dealing with unrealistic market expectations. It's like the people who whine about DMs being made in China and not England, the materials being cheaper than they were - and yet on the other hand they refuse to pay for the MiE boots, expecting to pay the price they did twenty years ago.
Regarding them being made outside of Greece, you meant out of Greece? That's what BK claimed, but it seems doubtful at that point. When I looked into it, nobody had heard of anything like that.
BK, afaik, maintain they manufacture in Greece; it was believed by some that they were manufacturing elsewhere than in Greece. I don't honestly know either way - tbh, their salesman's attitude both here and when I emailed them a few years ago put me off enough that they're just not a consideration.