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NEWS RELEASE
January 15, 2019
11:00 a.m.

NATIONAL WIDGET COMPANY REHIRES AFTER LAY-OFFS

Fifty employees are to be rehired in Victoria after having been laid off by Canada’s oldest widget 

company in December. Two hundred employees will be rehired across the country. Employees will 

be brought back to work over the next few weeks, and The National Widget Company will be back 

at full capacity within six weeks.

A steady increase in sales has occurred over the last few months. Company President Andrew Bryce

says “The increase in sales has been unprecedented. We think this opportunity opens up enormous 

markets which will last for years.”


New markets have opened up in China, where they are asking for widgets to be installed in every 

new building. The National Widget Company was the first company in the world to make a deal with 

China.


Traditionally, widgets have been used in the oil business, now that they are being used for 

construction new markets have been presented. Andrew Bryce says “The opening up of the Chinese 

residential market represents opportunity and a secure market on which to expand our capacity.”


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