1. Why would Professional Products commit to no layoffs in its expansion? Is this a positive move, or could it be detrimental to the company?
2. In addition to training employees for other jobs, what other HR strategies might the firm employ to maintain its relationship with its domestic employees?

When Robert Kilbey began selling medical supplies out of his twenty-four-foot Airstream trailer in the early 1960s, he came upon a brilliant idea: make the braces and wraps with a new sort of closure—Velcro fasteners—instead of the common laces and hooks-and-eyes. The new hook-and-loop fastener, invented in the early 1940s and now used on everything from automobiles to footwear, caught on with the medical world. Kilbey moved Professional Products, Inc., from his base in Miami to DeFuniak Springs, Florida, where it quietly has become one of Walton County’s largest and most stable employers. Forty-two years later his son, Bryan Kilbey, is expanding the company and taking it international. “We will build a new 100,000-square-foot building this year,” the company’s CEO said. “And we are going to open a new sales office for the European market.”