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Canadian companies still sitting on ‘a cash mountain’

May 15, 2016
‘Reshoring’ is the term that is sometimes used. “Business leaders in Canada need to understand the difference between tactics and strategy. There are tactics – what you do with the next quarter, with the next year – and then there is …
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From belief to resentment in Indiana

May 14, 2016
It had been two months since Setser and 800 others in Huntington were told their manufacturing jobs would soon be outsourced to Mexico, but so far nothing about his routine had changed. He was still making $17 an hour on the third-shift line at United …
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Trump fever in Appalachia raises warning signs for Clinton in coal country

May 13, 2016
Among Trump supporters, there is more going on than a simple belief that he will work harder to encourage such “reshoring” of US manufacturing. Standing outside a Lowes DIY store in Steubenville, Edward Tucker acknowledges a personal distrust of …
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Want to Take a Business to the Next Level? Follow These Leaders

May 12, 2016
You can even offshore paralegal work, if you want to. But what about onshoring? As Robert Lincoln, senior VP of human resources at Manpower notes, there are plenty of reasons to keep jobs domestic. Onshore operations can allow companies to maintain more …
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Meet the new guys: introducing the cobots

May 12, 2016
This, coupled with a desire for faster delivery, increased quality and more flexible production, means that reshoring is happening, albeit at a slower rate than many would like. It is, however, not a straight win for old school industrialists. To remain …
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China pips US as world’s No.1 investor in less than six months

May 12, 2016
One of the goals behind the drive is relocating China’s excess manufacturing capacity to Africa, Latin America, Europe and elsewhere where capacities are needed. “The Chinese leadership has a knack of making foreign investments by Chinese companies look as …
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Reshoring Among the Supply-Chain Trends at Texprocess Americas

May 11, 2016
ATLANTA—One of the continuing themes at Texprocess Americas in Atlanta was Made in the USA production and re-shoring resources. It’s somewhat anecdotal and not everyone is benefiting, but clearly some companies are. They include Hickory Brands, a North …
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Bridges versus borders

May 11, 2016
Global trade growth has slowed since the financial crisis. Mr Khanna also ignores a trend much discussed by economists: the “reshoring” of certain economic activities to rich countries as fears grow about political instability and as China gets too …
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The Chinese Millennials

May 11, 2016
I work with Millennials at my client’s offices and with student interns at the Reshoring Institute, so I am familiar with how to manage this up and coming group. But I was surprised by the comments of a factory manager from Dongguan, China when he talked …
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Hillary Clinton’s plan for capturing the center

May 11, 2016
Priorities USA will also work to undermine Trump’s populist economic pitch, making the case that his promises of restoring coal mining and manufacturing jobs are empty and that his business background is dubious. “This is a person who has built his …
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