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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman

Do you want to buy a British kettle? Go whistle

A kettle and a Union Jack mug
‘We are stuck at this time’: a scheme to manufacture kettles under a new UK brand is failing to attract investors. Photograph: Clynt Garnham Products/Alamy

Britons might never again get the chance to buy an electric kettle made in the UK. Even a £150 kettle from Dualit, the company most famous for making its celebrated toaster in Crawley, West Sussex, is produced by Chinese workers 5,000 miles away.

Most consumers think the whereabouts of the factory or assembly plant riveting their latest purchase together is irrelevant, but those who do want it to be produced locally do not have a choice.

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