This giveaway consists of 4 pretty cool American made products! Today’s gift pack is worth over $200. All products have been generously donated by our Made in America Movement Members and Sponsors. (MAM Members) Rules for entry: (1) Enter via Rafflecopter widget below. It may seem overwhelming, but it’s really quite easy. (2) Comment at the […]
The Volkswagen Group plans to invest more than $5 billion in North America over the next three years in new products, technologies and infrastructure aimed at helping the company reach its long-term goals for the region. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. celebrated on Tuesday the grand opening of a $40 million Southeast Regional Distribution Center in […]
Jon Springer Three months can be an awfully long wait.Yet that’s typical of the time it takes to move manufactured goods from a factory in China to a store shelf in the United States, according to Hal Sirkin, senior partner with Boston Consulting Group, speaking at Wal-Mart Stores’ annual shareholders meeting events this month […]
Bangladesh expressed dismay at a U.S. decision to cut duty-free trade access, insisting Friday that the government has taken concrete steps to improve safety and working conditions since a factory collapse in April killed more than 1,000 garment workers. The U.S. had suspended the trade benefits a day earlier, saying […]
The F-150 snapped a four-year streak for the Camry and earned the No. 1 spot in Cars.com’s 2013 American-Made index. The index ranksSource: Ford Motor Co. Ford Motor Co.’s F-150 pickup, pacing the biggest gain in U.S. market share among automakers this year, topped a consumer website’s list of most-American made […]
A welder builds parts for finished petroleum tanks at Southern Tank and Manufacturing Inc. in Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S. | Photo Credit: Ty Wright, Bloomberg – Getty Images Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly. Several American firms, including Caterpillar, GE and Ford, have announced they’re shifting some manufacturing operations back to the United […]
Photo Credit: Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are renewing a push to stop the federal government from buying and flying American flags made outside the country. A bipartisan group of House legislators led by Iowa Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley introduced the “All-American Flag […]
New documentary follows one man’s journey to live off only products “Made in USA.” After a manufacturing plant closed down in his hometown of Ravenswood, W.Va., resulting in 650 people losing their jobs, Josh Miller began to wonder what was really made in America anymore.He decided to set out on a 30-day road trip […]
The slogan “Made in the U.S.A.” is far more than a patriotic platitude. It’s a rallying cry for the rejuvenation of the middle class.So argues filmmaker Josh Miller in Made in the U.S.A.: The 30-Day Journey, a new documentary now available via streaming as well as DVD. Miller, […]
98% of the clothing sold in the USA is manufactured overseas, and nearly all of that clothing is made from fabrics that have a negative effect on the environment. However, if the ambitious father and daughter co-founders of PuraKai Clothing have their way, not only will there be a […]
Hello Everyone! We are giving away 13 awesome prizes. $860 worth of American made products will go to ONE lucky dad this weekend. Will it be yours? All prizes have been generously donated by our Made in America Movement Members and Sponsors. (MAM Members) Rules for entry: (1) Enter via Rafflecopter widget below. It may seem […]
Michael Preysman, chief of the online boutique Everlane, at a plant in Vernon, Calif., where its T-shirts and sweatshirts are made. | Photo Credit: The New York Times Written By: STEPHANIE CLIFFORD The revolution that has swept the food industry is expanding to retail: origins matter. With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on […]
The administrative building of the Masanjia labor camp and other facilities in China. | Photo Credit: The New York Times Written By: ANDREW JACOBS MASANJIA, China — The cry for help, a neatly folded letter stuffed inside a package of Halloween decorations sold at Kmart, traveled 5,000 miles from China into the […]
Students from Hardin Valley Academy, Halls High School and Oak Ridge High School celebrate winning the 2013 championship title at the FIRST Robotics Smoky Mountains regionals. | Michael Messing/Special to The Oak Ridger Written by:Carolyn Krause / Special to The Oak Ridger The 3-D printer has been in the […]
New building sets offer fans exciting building options. Hatfield, PA (PRWEB) June 10, 2013 K’NEX Brands, the US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love®, is pleased to introduce four new additions to its K’NEX Building Sets line. These K’NEX Building Sets contain 100% made in the USA bricks, rods and connectors that […]
In a new documentary debuting in theaters July 4, 2013, a young man from West Virginia shows what happens at the heart of small town America when families like his lose their manufacturing jobs. Charleston, WV (PRWEB) June 11, 2013West Virginian Josh Miller treks from Washington D.C. to […]
Michael Messing/Special to The Oak RidgerStudents from Hardin Valley Academy, Halls High School and Oak Ridge High School celebrate winning the 2013 championship title at the FIRST Robotics Smoky Mountains regionals. Written by: Carolyn Krause / Special to The Oak Ridger The 3-D printer has been in the news recently […]
Jeffrey M. Jones 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 goals related to the national economy, including creating […]
Ahvi Spindell There is a growing trend to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. as managers re-calculate and compare the true total costs of production. Still, there is a range of hidden metrics that are not factored often enough when determining where to produce goods. Michele Nash-Hoff, author of […]
Photograph by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Karen E. Klein Question: How can I successfully promote my made-in-the-USA children’s clothing line both domestically and overseas? Answer: There is plenty of evidence that marketing your company under the Brand U.S.A. banner can boost sales, both domestically and overseas. And with a string of tragedies involving overseas garment workers in the news recently, more customers […]
Norton’s U.S.A. celebrates 6 years of made in the U.S.A. with fun events and deals (Posted By Melissa Schwartz, Community Contributor / June 3, 2013) Melissa Schwartz Norton’s U.S.A., a uniquely American General Store in Barrington, is celebrating its 6th anniversary this month! For the past 6 years, Deborah Leydig has shared her passion […]
Ted Samson Companies are moving manufacturing closer to high-tech hubs to better protect intellectual property, serve customers For the first time in more than a decade, technology manufacturing jobs are on the rise in the United States, according to new research from Jones Lang LaSalle. The jobs aren’t surging back, per se; the research company predicts […]
Rockwell Automation viewed from the Milwaukee river Sophie Quinton Sailors on Lake Michigan know they’re approaching the south side of Milwaukee when they spot the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower. But the building beneath the tower acts as a marker of another sort: the structure originally built to be a manufacturing plant is now filled with […]
ABC News – Lenovo Paves the Way for Made-in-America Computers as North Carolina Facility Ramps Up Full Production (ABC News) JOANNA STERN Stephanie Nance places Microsoft stickers on new Lenovo ThinkPad computers. And not just any computers. They are computers that her mother Sharon Nance helped assemble. The mother-daughter team doesn’t work in China or at one of the infamous factories like Foxconn. […]
By JENNA WORTHAM and BRIAN X. CHEN Just like Apple, Google has caught the “Made in America” bug. Motorola Mobility, the handset maker acquired by Google, says its next phone, called Moto X, will be manufactured in the United States. Speaking at the All Things D conference in Southern California on Wednesday, Dennis Woodside, the head of Motorola, […]
Cathryn Gran NORRIDGE — Open barely two months, Boutique3 is striving to offer clothing and accessories made in this country. “We’re trying to stock all made-in-America labels,” said Carrie Ann Esposito, a Norridge resident and one of three partners in the business at Regency Plaza, 5050 N. Cumberland Ave. “We do our own buying, but […]
Steve Atkinson SAN DIEGO – Small businesses, it’s the backbone of America. But what if you couldn’t find investors to help you grow your American-made business unless you took your product overseas. A local business is facing that dilemma and 10News spoke with the owner who says that the company is now turning to the […]
Michele Nash-Hoff We now live in a globalized economy, and many people say it doesn’t matter where something is made. They say that the industrialization of third world countries is good because it has provided jobs for millions of people and raised their standard of living. American consumers have benefited from cheaper prices for the […]
Maria Pereira of Parsippany is shown in this 2011 photo sewing draw-string backpacks with ‘Made In Newark’ printed on them at Unionware, a company in West Newark. A new report from the Brookings Institution examines Newark’s manufacturing assets. (Star-Ledger file photo) Ed Beeson Newark has much of what it would take to undergo a new […]
Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY — The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico’s Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry. The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. program for labeling imported meat unfairly discriminated against Mexico and […]
