by: Zainab Akande Check the tag of the clothes you’re wearing, either now or sometime after you read this article. There is always small printed text that informs the customer where that item of clothing was made. More often than not, the name of some far away country completely unrelated to our daily lives is listed. The […]
By Peter Grier Staff writer The Walt Disney Company pulls out of five developing countries – including Bangladesh, site of a devastating building collapse of a garment factory – telling licensees of Disney-brand items of its decision to phase out production there. Critics say pulling out is not the best response. The Walt Disney Co. is pulling […]
BY: Jeffrey M. Jones Patriotism, Jobs Primary Motivations for ‘Buying American’. Six in 10 say they would pay more to buy U.S.-made products PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-five percent of Americans say they recently made a special effort to buy products made in the United States. When asked why, these shoppers mainly cited patriotic or altruistic […]
Mitch Lipka May 3, 2013 (Reuters) – When Roger Simmermaker went shopping for clothes at a Florida mall in the mid-1990s, he wanted to buy American, but to his frustration, he couldn’t find anything made in the U.S.A. The experience motivated Simmermaker, an electronics technician by trade, to write “How Americans Can Buy American” – a guide […]
After years of building what they hoped would boost profits by enhancing overseas operations, many U.S. manufacturers have become disillusioned by the lack of return on investment they had anticipated. Instead of finding cost-saving benefits overseas through outsourcing, they are finding headaches, which have spurred a growing number of American companies to head home and […]
By Brad Plumer It’s hardly news when a U.S. firm moves its manufacturing operations abroad to China. But what about when a Chinese company sets up a factory in the United States? That happened in January, when Lenovo, a Beijing-based computer maker, opened a new manufacturing line in Whitsett, N.C., to handle assembly of PCs, tablets, […]
Gilbert B. KaplanFormer Deputy Assistant and Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce Hard as it may be to believe, there are forces in Washington that oppose the revival of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Who are they, and how do we counter their efforts? I think — roughly — […]
John D. Oravecz and Andrew Conte To avoid always having to stamp documents to verify shipments originated in the United States, a chamber of commerce near Chicago’s O’Hare airport leases its seals to busy exporters for $250 a year. It would be too much work for a chamber employee […]
If we want to attract today’s youth to manufacturing careers, We need to make manufacturing “cool,” so they will choose to be part of the modern advanced manufacturing. We need to show them what great career opportunities exist in the industry and expose them to the variety of career opportunities in […]
