Stanley Black & Decker is shutting its New Britain, Connecticut, tape measure plant, eliminating about 300 jobs, as it shifts production overseas to lower-cost facilities amid changing product demand toward double-sided tape measures and ongoing cost-cutting efforts to protect margins and streamline its manufacturing footprint, The Wall Street Journal’s John Keilman reports.
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