SONY TO EXPAND U.K. TELEVISION OUTPUT
Sony (U.K.) Ltd said it would be doubling
capacity at its Bridgend, Wales, television and components
factory over the next three years in a 30 mln stg expansion.
    The expansion, backed by Welsh office grants, would make
Bridgend Sony's biggest tv manufacturing plant in Europe with
output of about 500,000 tv sets per year, a spokesman said.
    The move will add 300 jobs at Bridgend, bringing the total
workforce to 1,500 at the end of the three-year period.
    The expansion is part of a wider move by Sony Corp <SNE.T>
to locate more production capacity nearer its markets, a
spokesman said.
 Reuter
