Replacing the notion of ‘off-shoring’ and ‘on-shoring’ with ‘right-shoring’ – SaportaReport (blog)

March 11, 2013

By Guest Columnist JEFF SWEENEY, co-founder and executive vide president of East-West Manufacturing, an Atlanta-based domestic offshore manufacturing company Is offshoring inherently bad? Do manufacturing jobs “belong” onshore? Both questions are based on an erroneous assumption that trade creates winners and losers. A job producing something in China does not mean one fewer job here […]

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Interview: GlaxoSmithKline chief Sir Andrew Witty – Scotsman

March 11, 2013

The company announced in its fourth-quarter results that it was reviewing the future of Lucozade and Ribena. Despite being healthy products, they have struggled to make a case for inclusion in the company’s plans. As the review coincided with news that the merger of Irn-Bru maker AG Barr and Pepsi bottler Britvic was being referred […]

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Canada needs to focus on building a trusted, world-coveted brand – Globe and Mail

March 10, 2013

There is a yearning in Canada for the glory days of the North American free-trade deal – a time when exports soared, Americans loved our oil, and borders seemed to melt away. Former federal cabinet minister and diplomat Michael Wilson says the way to get back to that sweet spot is to build a more […]

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Vodafone ‘missed the ball’ on smartphones: Morrow – Business Spectator

March 10, 2013

By a staff reporter Vodafone Australia chief executive Bill Morrow has said the company did not anticipate the rapid penetration of smartphones in Australia, admitting Vodafone “missed the ball”, but promising that 2013 will bring significant improvements for customers. In an interview with Business Spectator‘s KGB, Mr Morrow said Vodafone Australia’s strategy for winning back customers […]

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The Surprising Reasons Why America Lost Its Ability To Compete – Forbes

March 10, 2013

Competitiveness at the Crossroads (2012) is an alarming report with far-reaching implications. Forget the U.S. budget sequester. Set aside the financial bubbles on which the economy currently rests. Pay attention to something much more fundamental: America has lost the ability to compete in the international marketplace. The report was written by three distinguished professors at […]

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ManufacturingCrossing.com Finds Manufacturing Jobs Gradually Rebounding in … – PR Web (press release)

March 10, 2013

 This shows that ManufacturingCrossing has found nearly half of the total jobs created in the entire country. Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) March 10, 2013 Jobs in many states in America such as Michigan are slowly coming back through the reshoring model. ManufacturingCrossing (http://www.manufacturingcrossing.com), an Employment Research Institute initiative, lists around 22,600 manufacturing jobs in all for […]

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Reshoring: are manufacturing jobs coming back to United States? – Plain Dealer

March 9, 2013

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s an economic development strategy with mass appeal: bringing back to the United States jobs that went overseas decades ago — a bright idea in an era when high corporate profits coincide with stubbornly high unemployment. Alas, despite predictions of an insourcing resurgence and a few well-publicized cases, reshoring for now looks […]

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Falling surplus nothing to worry about – The Star Online

March 9, 2013

IT’S interesting to note just how the economy is changing. One of the things that drove growth for a long time was the manufacturing sector and the exports of merchandise churned out by factories throughout the country. The size of trade used to be close to 200% of GDP at its peak, a percentage that […]

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US trade deficit widens in January – Big News Network.com

March 8, 2013

WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit widened more-than-expected in January, as exports declined back and imports, particularly oil, rose more than most expected, official data showed on Thursday. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis in its report said that the U.S. trade deficit widened to a seasonally adjusted $44.5 billion in January from a deficit […]

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Should you consider ‘reshoring’ despite the cost? – VentureBeat

March 8, 2013

The business world has been lamenting over the past few years that the US has shifted from being a country that makes things to a country that largely makes its things somewhere else. With the cheaper labor costs of many developing countries — not to mention the new technologies that make managing such relationships easier […]

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