The Walmart on Atlantic Boulevard in Canton is collecting food for employees who can’t afford Thanksgiving dinner. The company said this is proof that employees look out for one another. The group of employees who have held national strikes against the world’s largest retailer says the food drive is proof Walmart doesn’t pay associates enough […]
Tree leaves were turning yellow and red in Damascus, Oregon, in late October. Competing with fall foliage for attention were Halloween decorations, which adorned almost every house in this sleepy middle-class suburb of Portland on America’s Pacific West Coast. SECRET LETTER FOUND INSIDE HALLOWEEN TOY A few pumpkins sat on the steps leading to Julie […]
The push by Wal-Mart Stores to return manufacturing to the U.S. has gathered more momentum with the global retailer announcing that three companies will support manufacturing operations in Georgia, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. Wal-Mart officials announced on Jan. 15, 2013, a pledge to purchase in the next 10 years […]
Rogers is famous for Daisy BB guns but it will soon be home to another toy maker, Redman & Associates, who announced a $6.5 million investment to relocate its ride-on toy manufacturing business from Shanghai to Northwest Arkansas over the next three years. Gov. Mike Beebe, Walmart U.S. CEO […]
A job-seeker, right, talks to a prospective employer at a job fair earlier this year at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. Jeff Korzenik, chief investment strategist at Fifth Third Bank, said there was not a lot of hiring of young people during the recession, but that has changed. Their unemployment rate […]
Customers shop at a Walmart Supercenter in Rogers, Arkansas June 6, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking The world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced three new manufacturing projects by suppliers in the United States to produce footwear, curtains and glassware as part of a broader commitment to “buy American.” Bill Simon, Wal-Mart’s U.S. president and CEO, made the announcement […]
We have heard a great deal this year about manufacturing coming back to the United States. We hear about the diminishing wage gap in some Asian countries and the possibility of lower U.S. energy prices. In addition, a few small examples of goods currently made in China, but now being planned […]
A Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, Ohio. (Photo: Skip Peterson, AP file) Manufacturing activity in the U.S. expanded at the fastest pace in 2½ years last month, getting a boost from overseas growth and a strong year for the auto industry. The manufacturing index at the Institute for […]
Manufacturing matters because it’s simply impossible to have a vibrant national economy without a healthy globally traded sector, and manufacturing is America’s most important traded sector. Manufacturing has been the focus of much attention lately — a key theme of President Barack Obama’s Inauguration and State of the Union […]
