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Rethinking Re-shoring – Knowledge@Wharton

January 21, 2013

There’s been a flood of attention paid recently to the idea of re-shoring – bringing manufacturing that had been offshored to China back to the U.S. The prospects for an economic shot in the arm from the increase in output and jobs this could bring have excited many in the U.S. They see rising wages in […]

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The Rights and Wrongs of Boeing and Its Dreamliner – Forbes

January 21, 2013

 Haydn Shaughnessy Contributor  ANA B787-8(JA801A) Dreamliner (Photo credit: Kentaro IEMOTO@Tokyo) Are Boeing’s Dreamliner problems a result of its offshoring policy – and could onshoring have saved it? Steve Denning makes a convincing case for that argument in two great articles – read the latest here. I want to disagree. It’s true, as Steve says, that […]

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Vietnam vs. China Part II: Corporate Income Tax – China Briefing

January 21, 2013

This is the second article in a series dedicated to comparing the costs and ease of doing business in Vietnam and China from the standpoint of a foreign investor. By Rosario Di Maggio Jan. 21 –Many foreign investors operating in China today are looking at Vietnam as a sort of additional “province” or alternative hub […]

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The Origination and Distribution of Intellectual Property and Implications for … – hedged.biz

January 21, 2013

‘We think of it, we build it, we buy it.’ This all works nicely until the economy reaches its speed limits and potential. Then the economy overheats and prices rise more quickly. The limits of an economy can be extended by trade and specialization where productive capacity is exported to areas or countries with cheap […]

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Craig Elliffe: Big job tackling tax minimisation – New Zealand Herald

January 20, 2013

New Zealand is joining governments and the OECD in responding to international profit-shifting. In the second column examples were given on the strategies used by some American multinational companies to reduce their profitability in Britain. These techniques were revealed under questioning by a House of Commons parliamentary select committee. For some time UK politicians and […]

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Walmart Will Help US Onshoring of Appliance Production – Appliance Magazine

January 18, 2013

Walmart committed to increase domestic U.S. sourcing of the products it sells, including taking steps to help onshore manufacturing of appliances. Walmart U.S. President and CEO Bill Simon made the announcement while speaking at the National Retail Federation’s annual BIG Show. Walmart and Sam’s Club will buy an additional $50 billion in U.S. products over […]

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Coming home – The Economist

January 18, 2013
Coming home  The Economist

IN 2005, A START-UP company from California called ET Water Systems decided to move its manufacturing operations to China. At the time there was a general …

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Ford to hire 2200 US workers this year – AutomotiveIT International

January 18, 2013

Ford Motor plans to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the US this year to support the planned rollout of a range of new vehicles. The US based carmaker said it added more than 8,100 hourly and salaried jobs in the US in 2012 as it increased production capacity and expanded its engineering and manufacturing operations. […]

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What to do now Shape up – The Economist

January 17, 2013

THE WEST HAS become so obsessed with losing vast numbers of jobs to globalisation that its anxiety is now the butt of jokes. The Onion, a satirical website, recently reported that parents are outsourcing child care to India and Sri Lanka, using cardboard boxes to ship their offspring across the oceans. A country’s overall level […]

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Manufacturing matters: Manufacturing in a new year – Design World Network

January 16, 2013

We’re safely into 2013, and with the election long-since settled and the Mayans’ predictions assigned to the trashcan of history, manufacturing news is hot. In fact, the Institute for Supply Management recently reported its index of manufacturing activity rose to 50.7 last month, up from 49.5 in November. Some highlights from the last couple of […]

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