Reshoring News

A quarter of mid-market firms in the UK are considering re-shoring some or all of their business activities in the next three years, according to research. The study, carried out by GE Capital UK and Warwick Business School, found procurement made up just over a fifth of the activities firms intended to bring back to […]

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — NATEL EMS recently invested in an additional state-of-the-art Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) line and continues to lower costs for products manufactured in the United States. This represents a continuation of the NATEL EMS effort to bring outsourcing prices within a few percentage points of low-cost labor countries in Asia.  […]

Research carried out by GE Capital and Warwick Business School reveals that on average, mid-market executives expect, over a three year period, to see an increase in revenues of £3.8m per firm per annum as a result of this domestic relocation, which they estimate will help boost profits by an average 12.1%. Cumulatively, […]

Being nominated by your clients for a major industry award is humbling enough, but actually winning it? “That would be indescribable,” said Lisa Lunsford, CEO and cofounder of Global Strategic Supply Solutions LLC (GS3 Global). Earlier this year, one of GS3 Global’s customers, Faurecia North America, nominated Lunsford and her company for the Michigan Minority […]

After initially manufacturing a different bike wheel overseas, company owner Mello Bouwmeester decided to bring the composites work to Adelaide, South Australia. “Quality control is absolutely critical during the manufacturing process,’’ he said. “It’s like making a cake. There are lots of different ingredients that go in and they all have to be exact and […]

Being nominated by your clients for a major industry award is humbling enough, but actually winning it? “That would be indescribable,” said Lisa Lunsford, CEO and cofounder of Global Strategic Supply Solutions LLC (GS3 Global). Earlier this year, one …

The cumulative effect of this is the projected creation of an extra 126,000 jobs across the UK per annum – equivalent to approximately the total current private sector employment in Newcastle upon Tyne. Additionally, the research finds that on average mid-market executives expect, over a three year period, to see an increase in revenues of […]

Reshoring: Why It’s Not Easy  Brookings Institution

Yesterday one of us said he thought the macro conditions for the “reshoring” of significant advanced industrial production were right but that the opening of new …

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I was catching up on my business reading this weekend and came across two great articles. One piece, while obstensibly about re-shoring, is actually a great HR lesson for business and HR leaders. The other is a tour-de-force about the substantial problems with performance reviews. I want every HR person out […]