JOB losses have been announced at a historic Scottish factory after a “difficult summer”.
150-year-old textiles firm Wilkie, in Kirriemuir, Angus, revealed the company has been impacted by Donald Trump's global tariffs.
Staff were given an update yesterday and it was revealed 15 redundancies will be made, according to The Courier.
"We’ve had pretty difficult summer trading and we expect that to continue for the next three to six months,” manager John Reid said.
"We expect this to be a short-term issue. We supply a lot of material to the US which has significant instability in its market."
He added: "Our key customers in the US are feeding back that business confidence is low. People and companies are shelving investments and slowing things down.
"Globally, trade has been disrupted – a result of all the tariffs.
"We’re taking stock of that and we’re making an adjustment to our costs.
"But this doesn’t change any of our plans to develop the business in the future and it doesn’t change our plans to move to Dundee."
