The pandemic forced Adidas to shutter a significant number of its stores globally in the first quarter of the year, with about 70 percent still closed in April, a company report showed.

Whenever the shutter is clicked, the cover on the top will open, unveiling a lollipop, according to Brusco.

They currently have actual projects requiring rolling shutter doors.

For instance, in November last year, Ding Yandong, president of Rollmax Shutter Component Co Ltd, a Ningbo, Zhejiang province-based roller shutter component manufacturer, rode into bad luck upon arrival at Heathrow Airport, London.

At a workshop of Rollmax Shutter Component Co Ltd, a Ningbo, Zhejiang province-based roller shutter component manufacturer, workers are busy welding, inspecting and packing octagonal tubes and other accessories for windows that will make their way to many homes in Poland, Hungary and Saudi Arabia later this year.

As for individual companies, rather than wait for the overseas orders to flow in, Rollmax Shutter Component Co Ltd, a Ningbo, Zhejiang province-based roller shutter component manufacturer, secured nearly $1 million worth of orders via a trip by Ding Yandong, its president, to the UAE in early December.

Ding Yandong, president of Rollmax Shutter Component Co Ltd, a roller shutter component manufacturer based in Ningbo, Zhejiang, emphasized the need to effectively handle the operational aspects of orders already received from its clients and ready for shipment, as these responsibilities lie with the company.

Regarding new orders, Ding said Rollmax Shutter needs to calculate the unit price based on the new costs, and adjust the product's selling prices appropriately to absorb the additional expenses, ultimately to be borne by the buyers.

"I am extremely excited about this trip," said Ding, general manager of Ningbo Rollmax Shutter Component Co. Having lost face-to-face contact with overseas customers for the past three years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ding faced the possibility of losing one of his biggest clients.

Ningbo Rollmax Shutter Component Co is one of more than 24,000 small and medium-sized foreign-trade companies in Ningbo.

In many parts of the world, the devastating COVID-19 pandemic sank duty-free retailers without a trace, forced airport shops to shutter, halted cruise tours and hindered their sales growth.

Most of them still see such capabilities as key to increasing their competitiveness, and hence are intent to grow them even against odds, despite Oppo's decision earlier this year to shutter its chip design department, experts said.

GM's first-quarter profit increase was 12 times larger than the same period last year, when the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic forced automakers to shutter factories, limiting GM's net income to $247 million.

To me, cooking is usually done on a whim, but this has changed since the COVID-19 outbreak, which has forced many restaurants to temporarily shutter and me to stay home and avoid any chances of infection.

As the economy slows, more P2P platforms are forced to shutter amid an intensifying regulatory crackdown on the scandal-ridden sector.

Chinese financial regulators started measures to shutter ICO trading platforms in September 2017, after trading in domestic ICOs was ground to a halt and the platforms were made to refund investors.