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More Products Being ‘Made in USA’ – Investorplace.com

May 22, 2012

A new business trend among U.S. manufacturers is to move factories back to the U.S. According to a survey released by Accenture, about two-thirds of American businesses have moved their plants to other locations during the past two years. Many of those moves were to back to the U.S.A. Accenture’s managing director of manufacturing practice, […]

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Manufacturers Remain Upbeat – EBN

May 22, 2012

North American manufacturers remain optimistic about their growth prospects for 2012, according to a recent survey by Accenture. The results underscore sentiments in similar surveys among US purchasing professionals and manufacturers. (See: US Buyers Optimistic for 2012 and Data Points to More Onshoring.) Eighty-nine percent of senior executives at North American manufacturers expect their company’s […]

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Ireland-bound Eaton is latest to end US corporate citizenship – Reuters

May 22, 2012

By Nanette Byrnes Tue May 22, 2012 10:56am EDT (Reuters) – Eaton Corp’s purchase of electrical equipment maker Cooper Industries means another U.S. company will soon leave the United States in favor of relocating its headquarters to a foreign country with sharply lower taxes. In the case of diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton (ETN.N), a complicated […]

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The Morning Download: Facebook Flop May Alter Business Social Plans – Wall Street Journal (blog)

May 22, 2012

The Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints. Good morning. CIOs without an aggressive social media plan for their businesses may have been seen as “not forward-looking” in the words of one CIO as recently as last Thursday night, but today those […]

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Once Made in China: Jobs Trickle Back to US Plants – Wall Street Journal

May 22, 2012

BY JAMES R. HAGERTY GREENVILLE, Ohio—When Bill Good was a student at Auburn University in Alabama in the 1980s, he worked at a company producing American-made fitness equipment—a business eventually wiped out by low-cost imports from Asia. He later worked at Char-Broil LLC, a Columbus, Ga.-based maker of grills, where he was involved in a […]

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Manufacturing jobs make a comeback | Chris Hurst – Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald

May 21, 2012

By CHRISTOPHER HURST Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald Representative May 21, 2012 · 1:20 PM  Americans are helping to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. American manufacturing was once the cornerstone of our nation’s economy. Unfortunately, manufacturers started looking for cheaper products in third world countries. This created the trend of offshoring and outsourcing American jobs in […]

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Wonkbook: What if we’d had Europe’s rules? – Washington Post (blog)

May 21, 2012

“Today we agreed that we must take steps to boost confidence and to promote growth and demand while getting our fiscal houses in order,” said President Obama after the G-8 meeting. “We agreed upon the importance of a strong and cohesive eurozone and affirmed our interest in Greece staying in the eurozone while respecting its […]

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Bringing IT jobs back to the U.S. – MetroWest Daily News

May 20, 2012

Computer technology has long been the driver of the U.S. economy. It permeates everything we do and use from the cars we drive to the appliances we use, to the smart home technology beginning to appear in newer homes to manage our utilities. Careers in technology have also been a great source of employment for […]

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Growing IT firm resolves to ‘onshore’ jobs locally – Dayton Daily News

May 19, 2012

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Drive From The Rising Sun: Why Japan’s Car Companies Are Moving Manufacturing … – International Business Times

May 19, 2012

These moves are a bitter pill for Japan and its foundering economy – and also a peek into Japan’s future. Just a few decades ago, when Japanese companies were audaciously acquiring such international icons as Pebble Beach Golf Course and Rockefeller Center, Burberry, Aquascutum, Sun Chemicals and Columbia Studios, fears were rife in the West […]

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