Reuters has reported from one factory – the Ninghai Jiying plastics factory in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Ningbo – which is planning to increase production from 10,000 to 25,000 per day.
The factory’s general manager Wu Yijun said the product had failed to take off since it was developed around 2001, until this year’s World Cup.
“We had developed this vuvuzela trumpet in 2001, but we did not manage to sell it back then. During the 2006 World Cup in Germany, we did not manage to market it for the event, even when we sold other kinds of trumpets,” Wu told Reuters.
