(Updates with Bloomberg Industries data in 13th paragraph.) Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest maker of TVs and mobile phones, reported a record profit surpassing analysts’ estimates as the popularity of its Galaxy devices helped widen the sales lead over Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Operating profit jumped 91 percent to 8.10 trillion […]
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Nicola Millard, a Customer Experience Futurologist at BT, helped build the first ever expert system in Europe for call centres. She combines a background in psychology (rather than technology) along with futurology to help BT determine what might be coming up for their customers. How did you get into customer service? I got my first […]
A Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI, USA) academic has authored a new study that claims that many US firms are moving or considering moving their manufacturing operations back to domestic soil from overseas. According to Tobias Schoenherr, an assistant professor of supply chain management, rising labor costs in emerging countries, high oil prices and […]
Archer: Certainty and repatriation key to job creation BY BRENT GRIFFITHS | OCTOBER 01, 2012 6:30 AM John Archer, the Republican candidate for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, believes his business experience and policies could help unemployed Iowans get back on track, as job creation is one of the key issues in his race against Rep. […]
CHICAGO — Manufactured exports—a bright spot of the U.S. economy in recent years—are set to surge. Combined with jobs created as a result of reshoring, higher U.S. exports could add 2.5 million to 5 million jobs by the end of the decade, as manufacturers shift production from leading European countries and Japan to take advantage […]
U.S.-Based Manufacturers Stand to Capture 2 to 7 Percent of Western European and Japanese Exports Due to Lower Labor and Energy Costs, BCG Research Finds ‘The U.S. Is Becoming One of the Lowest-Cost Producers of the Developed World’ CHICAGO, September 21 2012—Manufactured exports—a bright spot of the U.S. economy in recent years—are set to surge. […]
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Boston, MA – September 14, 2012 – “Manufacturing is alive and well in Massachusetts, and has a healthy future,” Professor Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University told more than 200 industry and policy leaders, including Gov. Deval Patrick and Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray, as he unveiled a new report, Staying Power II: A Report Card on […]
The steady rise of China as a world economic power may seem at first glance to be sucking the life out of the US economy, but one bright spot is a growing trend among U.S. manufacturers to bring manufacturing operations back to the U.S. Referred to as reshoring or onshoring, the movement has been gathering […]
Linemark Printing Puts Prinect Performance Benchmarking To Work Tuesday, August 21, 2012 Press release from the issuing company Linemark Printing (Upper Marlboro, MD) is among the vanguard of U.S. printers who are putting the benefits of Heidelberg’s 2012 InterTech Award-winning Prinect Performance Benchmarking to work in their organizations. Said President Steve Bearden, “We were looking […]
