Companies can now bid for a share of £100 million from a Government scheme to help them strengthen their domestic supply … major new suppliers to reshore in the UK. It comes from the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI).
Reshoring News
Bosca, a high-end leather manufacturer, is experimenting with a plan to shift a small amount of production back to Springfield, a trend local and state experts said is slowly becoming more common in Ohio’s roughly $87 billion manufacturing industry. A family-owned company with about 25 employees locally, the firm has had its headquarters in Springfield […]
ROBERT PROFUSEK: U.S. companies have deleveraged and built up an unprecedented amount of cash since the financial crisis. However, aftershocks of the financial crisis and investor hunger for yield in a low interest-rate environment combined to make many companies reluctant to invest. As a result, at least until this year’s M&A boomlet, many U.S. companies […]
Walmart is having a rough week. Following a week of employee protests at retail stores in more than 20 cities, a group of employees known as “Walmart moms” took the day off today to host a rally at the retailer’s Arkansas headquarters ahead of its annual shareholders meeting — as the company’s “Made in USA” […]
5 June 2014 Last updated at 00:15 By Howard Mustoe Business Reporter “Cost efficiency savings” sounds more positive than “sacking people to save money” “Putting together the pipelines,” was how Pfizer chief executive Ian Read explained his proposed takeover of British drugmaking rival […]
– June 4, 2014 – Supply Chain News: SCDigest, MIT Supply Chain Forum Again Partner on Study to Gauge Extent of US Reshoring Trend 2012 Study Showed Reasonably Strong Plans to Keep or Return Production Work to US – How Has Dynamic Changed Over the Past Two Years? […]
The media has been full of reports lately about a renaissance in U.S. manufacturing. The cheerleaders cite an array of heartening examples, including a $4 billion investment by Dow Chemical to boost its ethylene and propylene capacity on the U.S. Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation […]
Matt Rourke/AP By James B. Kelleher When Walmart Stores (WMT) pledged last year to buy an extra $250 billion in U.S.-made goods over the next decade, it appeared to be just what was needed to help move America’s putative manufacturing renaissance from rhetoric to reality. But suppliers trying to reshore production as part of the […]
May 29, 2014News Release Fontanet, Ind. – Green Leaf, Incorporated, a manufacturer of liquid handling products located in Fontanet, Indiana, announces that a number of its products being produced in China will return to be manufactured in America. Many factors aided in Green Leafs return to domestic manufacturing, including increased energy and labor costs abroad, […]
SUGAR LAND, TX–(Marketwired – May 27, 2014) – Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — A growing number of U.S. industrial manufacturers are continuing to “re-shore” projects and jobs due to the higher quality of domestic work, the rising cost of overseas labor and the increased access to lower-priced raw […]
