Small Business Spotlight: Project Repat, @projectrepat Who: Nathan Rothstein, president/co-founder and Ross Lohr, co-founder What: A socially conscious upstart creating U.S. jobs out of old t-shirts by upcycling them into quilts. When: February 2012 Where: Boston-based with production outposts in Fall River, Mass., and Morganton, North Carolina How: “People love free t-shirts, really,” Rothstein explains. […]

Expect fist pumps from David Cameron. Weeks after the PM revealed his plan to make Britain ‘the reshore nation’, mobile phone operator TT has announced it’s bringing 1,000 call centre jobs back to the UK. The initiative will begin in spring with the creation of 250 jobs in Northern Ireland. By boosting its British resources, […]

In 2012 U.S. manufacturers contributed $1.87 trillion to the national economy, or about 12 percent of the country’s GDP. According to the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) December 2013 semiannual economic forecast, the manufacturing sector is optimistic about growth in 2014. Capital expenditures are expected to increase by 8 percent and hiring by 2.4 percent […]

Over the past two years, there has been a steady increase in the number of manufacturing jobs created in the United States. Whether it has been created from the nationwide “Buy Local” movement, the onshoring mentality, or President Barack Obama’s initiative to create manufacturing institutes across the country, the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs […]