By TOM WRIGHT And I MADE SENTANA CONNECT HONG KONG—Major emerging markets in Asia plunged Monday on growing concerns among foreign investors that many of the region’s largest economies look increasingly fragile as a period of global easy money appears to be coming to an end. China, India and Brazil are disappointing investors. Manufacturing and […]

Asheville, N.C. — Nestled in the westernmost part of North Carolina, which is best known for its wood furniture, Plasticard-Locktech International is at first blush an unlikely exporter. Its calling card is plastic cards, the kind that’s used to get into a hotel room or stuck inside a birthday card as a gift. But […]

Offshoring continues to impact Ohio with companies cutting at least 1,800 jobs in the state since January, according to petitions for federal assistance from employees, labor groups, and company officials. This newspaper analyzed the U.S. Department of Labor records that track some, but not all, job losses from offshoring. Petitions for assistance are made to […]

By BedTimes / August 2013 Tempur Sealy International, the newly merged bedding major with headquarters in Lexington, Ky., reported that net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 were up when compared with the prior-year quarter, but that net income and gross profit margin decreased, all the result of Tempur-Pedic’s purchase of Sealy and […]