{"id":165994,"date":"2020-03-29T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/coronavirus-how-the-high-streets-big-boys-leave-suppliers-in-the-lurch-on-the-other-side-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:05:14","slug":"coronavirus-how-the-high-streets-big-boys-leave-suppliers-in-the-lurch-on-the-other-side-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/coronavirus-how-the-high-streets-big-boys-leave-suppliers-in-the-lurch-on-the-other-side-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: how the high street\u2019s big boys leave suppliers in the lurch on the other side of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"responsiveweb__Paragraph-sc-1isfdlb-0 YieBL\">In a quarter of a century supplying the British high street, Stephen Samraj has never faced a crisis like this.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveweb__Paragraph-sc-1isfdlb-0 YieBL\">Samraj, a director at Sri Lankan clothing manufacturer Vogue Tex, has seen a third of his orders cancelled in the past fortnight \u2014 and he does not expect it to stop there. 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