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September 5, 2016
When General Electric decided to reshore water heaters, it was able to produce a higher quality model for a retail price 20 percent lower than the Chinese model it replaced, creating 1300 jobs and leading to reshoring of refrigerators and washing machines too.
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US Power Tools Market

September 4, 2016
However, growth in imports will be limited to some degree by a trend toward “reshoring” production back to the US, as professional users are often willing to pay a premium for domestically produced tools perceived to be of higher quality. Electric outpaces …
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Relocalization: “Reshoring” the US Garment Industry

September 3, 2016
(See 2010 Harvard Business Review) America’s Burgeoning Sewn Goods Industry While most local economy activism has focused on food production and banking, the last decade has also witnessed numerous attempts across the US to “reshore” sewn goods …
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Will robotics disrupt the IT workplace?

September 1, 2016
There are more opportunities in the back office to drive innovation by focusing people on what’s valuable and reshoring versus outsourcing. What are the implications for developers and engineers?There will always be changes required to customize standard …
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Labor of Love: Making America Great (Again)

September 1, 2016
The Reshoring Initiative has said that “the bleeding of American manufacturing jobs has stopped,” and its data shows that in the past decade new offshoring has decreased 75% while new reshoring and FDI (foreign direct investment) has increased 400%.
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How to root out slavery in your supply chain

September 1, 2016
Despite calls for and some attempts at ‘reshoring’ of manufacturing, supply chains are getting ever more complex, which makes it harder to spot problems. It’s easy for a small business with tight budgets to overlook these issues. But getting caught …
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Recliner maker to hire 600, invest $20 million in Lee County

August 30, 2016
He said the announcements show businesses are “reshoring” production that they had sent abroad. Bland said Southern Motion wanted to expand its Baldwyn factory, but was stymied by polluted land that would have made it expensive to build. Instead …
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What’s the Difference Between Automation and Employment?

August 30, 2016
Manufacturing can reshore by replacing 10,000 workers overseas with 1,500 workers in the U.S., but this seems to all lean toward one direction—the end of unskilled labor while the unskilled laborer workforce grows worldwide. For example, Cambodia offers …
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Neosho homeless shelter reopening after renovations

August 30, 2016
“It’s an exciting time for us, making the transition from Neosho Crosslines to Restoration Life Center,” said Steve Moser, president of the center’s board. The board spent about $25,000 on repairs, with most of that money coming from donation
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Tony Jeff: More Mississippi products headed to Walmart

August 30, 2016
Considering that SyKel currently has a supply agreement for 11 million tablecloths a year made overseas, R2PG is working on reshoring efforts for this product line as well. It’s not easy to be an inventor and it’s even harder to take a product all the …
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