Woven into airwaves: Why this linen business founder does his own radio ads
Investing in local manufacturing Once he acquired Continental Linen, in the early 2000s – and later absorbed the Whitehouse group – Kahn started looking seriously at the opportunity to grow his textile business.
If it doesn’t make sense, it won’t work…” Still driven at 75 These days, Kahn’s son and daughter work in the business, although he still puts in full working weeks.
Over the years, he worked in various roles in business involving textiles and fabrics and took to it, watching the local textile industry from its peaks as a world-beater to its decline in the ’90s, when cheap foreign imports, from China and India, decimated local factories.
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