August 11, 2014
Print PDF FROM BUSINESS OF FASHION: In a recent Op-Ed (‘Made in the USA is More Hype Than Reality’) Edward Hertzman of Sourcing Journal used national labour cost comparisons and skill shortages to support his argument that US apparel manufacturing “won’t work at scale because of simple economics.” I agree that volume production is best […]
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August 11, 2014
Often, you’ll read on these pages reports that there is a trend toward reshoring, bringing manufacturing back to home shores. I’ve written a few such reports myself. And almost as often, you’ll read that there is no such trend, that there is only anecdotal evidence. Sometimes, you’ll read both claims in the same story, and […]
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