LONDON, September 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The inaugural European Manufacturing Leadership Award 2014 has recognised the pioneering leadership demonstrated by the decision to re-shore Philips shaver production operation from China to the Netherlands. This special Award has been launched to celebrate the first 10 years of WTG’s market leading European […]
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Image By: Redman & Associates LLC Redman & Associates LLC says in a suit that a supplier in China has threatened delivery of some of its ride-on toys. […]
The blue polyester vests that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) workers will soon be required to wear hail from Jordan, according to media reports. The garment’s place of origin raised plenty of eyebrows due to the giant retailer’s recent pledge to buy more U.S.-made goods, as well as the slate of workers’ rights violations at Walmart […]
At every conference or trade show I attend, there is one question that’s always asked: is apparel manufacturing returning to America? While there may not be one simple answer, from everything I’ve observed, I lean toward a pretty emphatic ‘no.’ Economically, reshoring can’t work at any significant scale. In recent years, there has been a […]
Molded Rubber & Plastics Corp. is seeing work return form China, but a recent survey from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce found that the migration of re-shoring work to Wisconsin from overseas has been more like a slow trickle than a rush. Of the 261 companies that responded, 4 percent said they had already re-shored jobs […]
This article is the fourth in a 12-part series about the future of U.S. retail for the Forum for the Future-led 2014 Retail Horizons project in partnership with Retail Industry Leaders Association. For more about the project and the toolkit available in October, read the first post, which also contains a table of contents for […]
You’ve probably heard of offshoring: the flow of manufacturing and service functions and jobs to countries outside the United States. Companies seeking to reduce the cost of labor and materials moved factories from Northeastern states to Southeastern states as early as the 1880s; by the 1920s, the New England textile mills had almost all been […]
As the economy has turned around and employers have been seeking to invest in fresh blood, a consistent tone of unemployable youth has been ringing from the manufacturing and engineering ranks. The skills gap is a growing problem as baby boomers are retiring and green workers are attempting to enter the workforce. Read: What Happens […]
Mel Redman was the early face of the much-publicized effort by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to return manufacturing jobs on the U.S., but his company faces a troubling hitch in plans by to make battery-operated ride-on toys in Redman & Associates spacious new assembly plant in Rogers. Sales Chief, Redman’s Hong Kong-based manufacturing arm cut off […]
But a group of industry leaders wanted to stop the bleeding, and in 2010, Harry Moser founded The Reshoring Initiative, an industry-led effort to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Moser, like his father before him, worked in manufacturing.
