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AussieBum: How the cheeky manufacturer became an international brand

The reports of the death of manufacturing are greatly exaggerated. In fact, manufacturing can be found alive and well in a duplex in Leichhardt, New South Wales, headquarters of menswear brand aussieBum.
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