A trade intertwined with history

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However, those historic links have been getting much more slenderin recent years.

In 1998, Pringle shut its 280-worker Berwick operation and cut jobsin Hawick.

It was part of an intense scaling down of the business which hadseen employee numbers fall from 2,000 to about 450 in the space offive years.

In 1999, its parent company, Dawson International, put it up forsale and it was eventually purchased by the Hong Kong-based FangBrothers in 2000.

Shortly afterwards, they announced bold plans to put the Pringlename back on the catwalk.

The aim was to rebrand the business as a "high fashion" product.