Once, the largest industrial centre of Zambia, boasting,
among many high-powered sites, a Land Rover vehicle assembly plant, Dunlop Tire
manufacture, Johnson & Johnson Industry, Ndola's economy shrunk
significantly between 1980 and 2000. Many closed factories and plants lie
unoccupied in the town. A number of former industries such as clothing and
vehicle assembly have gone completely. At its height Ndola was Zambia's host of
Production sites for such world-renowned blue chip names as Colgate-Palmolive,
Unilever, Dunlop, Land Rover, etc. Even though the term 'ghost town' can no
longer apply to
