For the past three years, there has been mounting anecdotal evidence that North America is once again becoming a preferred location for manufacturing. The evidence has been spotty, but nonetheless compelling — Apple’s building in Texas, Motorola’s making smartphones in Fort Worth, Lenovo opening a plant in North Carolina, Texas Instruments in Maine, GE in […]
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Different manufacturing businesses face different business challenges depending on product sets, competitive dynamics, supply chains and customer trends in a given market. But when it comes to reducing the costs of existing products, they share some very similar challenges. For example: Complex global manufacturing and sourcing strategies make it difficult for design and cost engineering teams […]
A gold mine for marketers through the past decade, developing economies have lost some of their shimmer. The past year has shaved two to three percentage points off growth rates for countries such as China and India. By most projections, emerging markets are never again likely to grow as fast as they have the past […]
Different manufacturing businesses face different business challenges depending on product sets, competitive dynamics, supply chains and customer trends in a given market. But when it comes to reducing the costs of existing products, they share some very similar challenges. For example: Complex global manufacturing and sourcing strategies make it difficult for design and cost engineering […]
It’s now all about Fed policy and while the accompanying statement will contain limited information, it’s the event the market needs to put them closer to the same page of the Fed collective. The investment and trading community always need to align positioning to that of Fed rhetoric, and while the market feels March is […]
29 Oct 2013 12:12 Written by Press Release Category: Commentary Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 29, 2013. The AFL-CIO applauds the Senate Democrats for pulling together this broad legislative package to support domestic manufacturing. This is an example of the results-oriented approach Congress should be taking to invest in growth and create jobs, rather than engaging in divisive […]
29 Oct 2013 12:12 Written by Press Release Category: Commentary Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 29, 2013. The AFL-CIO applauds the Senate Democrats for pulling together this broad legislative package to support domestic manufacturing. This is an example of the results-oriented approach Congress should be taking to invest in growth and create jobs, rather than engaging in divisive […]
Manufacturing Jobs for America features 40 bills from 22 senators WASHINGTON — A group of 22 U.S. senators has come together to launch a campaign to get Washington to refocus on manufacturing jobs. The Manufacturing Jobs for America initiative aims to build bipartisan support for legislation that will modernize America’s manufacturing sector, help American manufacturers […]
AAPT chief executive David Yuile calls offshoring “your mess for less”. Photo: Nic Walker Shaun Drummond ANZ Bank’s head of global shared services, Simen Munter, says high labour and infrastructure costs mean Australian companies have to be 30 per cent more efficient in their finance teams than UK or US-based […]
For years, the business news media has provided a drumbeat of anecdotal reports of U.S. manufacturing companies bringing production back from overseas — commonly called reshoring — but there have always been naysayers who insist the underlying data do not support evidence of a serious reshoring trend. I have seen reports of major league reshoring […]
