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Export Sales Falling?

July 24th, 2008 at 10:39am Bob Trojan

Ever wonder why export sales in the summer fall off for a while?

Europe has a practice of closing their factories from 2-4 weeks each summer so all employees can enjoy that period of time.  By all employees doing this at the same time, no one is pressured to “stay in touch”.  My Italian customer closes for a 4 week period in August so we typically don’t ship orders for a 4 week period.  France has a different time period.  The Netherlands has a system that divides the country into thirds and each year they rotate which third goes on vacation, each third doing it at a different time.

So if you want to get confused about vacation times in Europe, try shipping to each country!

Entry Filed under: Export, Economy

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