As I mentioned before, Provincial City's leather factory is also an old factory.
An old factory signifies a longstanding brand, but now, with the rise of the internet and economic development, old brands are no longer as popular. The reason is well known by everyone, today's youth prefer using brands that seem foreign.
What "seem" means is that everyone clearly understands that the products are locally made, and they might even be made by the neighbor next door, Old Wang from Wang Family's house, whose child Gou Dan went out to work. But as long as the brand sounds a bit foreign and hangs up a label like "joint venture with a certain country" or "authorized agency," it becomes especially popular.
Some so-called famous foreign brands are probably just manufacturing companies paying some money to agency companies to register a brand overseas, which even the foreigners haven't heard of.
