TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill touted as a way to boost Florida’s manufacturing sector by extending a sales tax break passed its first test in a state House panel Wednesday, overcoming scattered objections that it amounts to a giveaway without guarantees it would stimulate job growth. The measure seeks to exempt Florida manufacturers from […]
Peggy Farabaugh was inspired to sell American-made furniture seven years ago after reading about animal habitats with her children. In the process, she discovered that the wood used to make most of the furniture sold in the U.S. is harvested from rainforests. A desire to raise awareness about wood sources, sustainability and forest conservation led […]
Small American flags are displayed April 11 at the My Made in America Store in Gillette. All of the products sold from the store are 100 percent made in America. The store opened in November 2012 after owners Rod and Susan Mathis had conceptualized it earlier in the year. Rod came up with the idea […]
GMC – The 2013 GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave, and Chevrolet Traverse share first place for most ‘American made.’ Index uses expanded criteria to score 253 vehicles. Domestic brands have the most American-made content in the United States according to a new index released by American University’s Kogod School of Business. Professor Frank DuBois, a global supply chain […]
Bill Saporito Walmart doesn’t make anything. But the giant retailer could play a part in the manufacturing rebound that is taking place in the U.S. with its promise to buy $50 billion more U.S. made goods over the next decade for its Walmart and Sam’s Club stores. It’s a bit ironic, given Walmart’s vast global sourcing organization. […]
Rana Foroohar Is America in the middle of a manufacturing job revival? The latest numbers would make it seem so. The U.S. has added more net manufacturing jobs since the start of 2010 than the rest of the G7 nations put together, with only two other economies, Germany and Canada, increasing […]
“Manufacturing represents a whopping 67% of private-sector R&D spending as well as 30% of the country’s productivity growth” The U.S. economy continues to struggle, and the weak March jobs report — just 88,000 positions were added — briefly spooked the market. But step back and you’ll see a bright spot, perhaps the best economic news the U.S. […]
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner accelerates down the runway while taking off on its long-waited first flight Dec. 15, 2009 at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. (Photo: Stephen Brashear Getty Images) Bruce Smith CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Boeing announced Tuesday it is expanding in South Carolina, investing another $1 billion and creating […]
A Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agent pats down a man before he is returned to Mexico. (Photo: CBP/Gerald L. Nino) Elizabeth Harrington (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has granted uniform contracts to VF Imagewear, Inc., an apparel company that relies on manufacturing sites in Mexico for […]
Sculptor Hoss Haley (left) and glass-artist Rick Beck experiment with the patented materials of Floorazzo, a tile manufacturer in Siler City, NC. An innovative economic development project is bringing artisans into local industries to collaborate with manufacturers, training workers and expanding into new lines of production. – Courtesy of Art-Force By […]
Visitors can tour and try on USA made items with the companies` showroom opening. All American Clothing Co., the premier online location for USA made clothing items, announces the debut of its new concept with the opening of a showroom in its Arcanum, Ohio location. Located at 1 Pop Rite Rd, […]
JOHN GUENTHER It doesn’t take a fictional ad guru like Don Draper to let you know working in manufacturing has a branding problem with younger generations. The good news for the California economy is there’s a new image already being crafted. “Manufacturing is cool. It’s not smokestacks anymore,” said […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), the author of legislation to ensure that armor plates for America’s military is truly “Made in America,” announced on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Defense restored a 35-year rule requiring that steel purchased by the U.S. military be 100 percent domestically produced. The rule, originally overturned […]
SCOTT SHANE Small business may be the most popular institution in America. According to a 2012 poll conducted on behalf of the Public Affairs Council, 88 percent of Americans view small business favorably. In fact, 68 percent of us would rather pay more to do business with a small business than a big one. Could America’s […]
By Ben Casselman American factories are hiring again. But they aren’t hiring women. Manufacturing, one of the hardest-hit sectors during the recession, has been a leader in the recovery, although as today’s mixed durable goods number shows, the sector has been on shakier ground of late. U.S. factories have added […]
Senator cosponsors Bring Jobs Home Act that rewards companies bringing jobs back to U.S. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is backing a measure to boost job creation by rewarding companies that “insource” jobs to the U.S., while ending tax breaks for those companies shipping jobs overseas. The Bring […]
Harry Saltzgaver Long Beach Transit’s board voted Monday to award an $11.5 million contract for 10 all-electric buses to a firm whose parent company is Chinese-owned, noting that the bid complies with Made In America specifications and touting its large experience edge over the second bidder. BYD Motors, the […]
Adam Shell, NEW YORK — The benefits of the Made-in-the-USA marketing tagline now apply to stocks as well as shoes, SUVs and software. How so? With Europe hobbled by debt, white-hot China cooling and emerging markets slowing, stocks of U.S. companies that get most of their revenue from U.S.-based sales are performing better than companies […]
Flickr photo courtesy of Erich Ferdinand Howard A. Tullman It’s not just that shipping is expensive and labor costs are rising. The move away from ‘things’ is much more basic. Is the end of traditional manufacturing in sight? Should the last person out of tonight’s late shift turn off […]
Rod Nickel (Reuters) – The United States must bring its country-of-origin meat labeling rules into compliance with a earlier World Trade Organization ruling by May 23, 2013, according to a WTO decision on Tuesday, the Canadian government said. The WTO ruled on June 29 that the U.S. country-of-origin labeling […]
Michele Nash-Hoff There are numerous ideas and recommendations on how we could create jobs but most job creation programs proposed involve either increased government spending or reductions in income or employment taxes at a time of soaring budget deficits and decreased government revenue. Other recommendations would require legislation to change policies […]
Tim Bradshaw Google will manufacture Project Glass, its futuristic digital eyewear, in Silicon Valley, in a high-profile example of the return of electronics manufacturing to the US. Google is working with Hon Hai Precision Industry, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer better known as Foxconn, to assemble the sci-fi headset at a facility in Santa Clara, California, according to people familiar […]
Jody Melto Made in the U.S.A.What used to be a patriotic rally cry of Appalachian and Rust Belt states (having grown up in a West Virginia steel-working family, I can say that) is now the socially-responsible and eco-friendly marketing campaign for a new trend of designers. And tonight you […]
Mediaplanet Publishing released its highly anticipated awareness campaign, “Employing America.” With the aim of educating readers about America’s skilled labor gap, Mediaplanet and industry leaders joined forces to encourage Americans to do their part in rebuilding America. The publication was distributed as a digital campaign as well as a special eight-page broadsheet section within select […]
REUTERS/Robert Galbrait Sam RoMar. 24, 2013 One of the big emerging economic stories in the world today is the American manufacturing renaissance. This is the idea that low energy prices, increasing productivity, and rising costs overseas would invigorate the production of goods in the U.S. Goldman Sachs’ Jan Hatzius acknowledges that […]
Robin Lewis Allow me to be the group historian for a minute. Does anyone remember, in 1984, the “Crafted with Pride in the U.S.A.” advertising campaign, spearheaded by the late Roger Milliken, and funded by a consortium of fiber, chemical and textile companies? This was supposed to have instilled enough patriotism […]
March 24, 2013 ZANESVILLE — The world’s largest American flag will be unfurled this summer to help celebrate the Longaberger Co.’s 40th anniversay and its transition to strictly American-made products Brenton Baker, director of corporate communications, said the company expects to create 500 new positions in the U.S. as a […]
Press Release Customers want long-term value and that is why Suntactics manufactures its solar chargers in America to the highest quality control standards in the industry. “At Suntactics, we design and build our durable, reliable and hassle-free solar devices for long-term customer value and not obsolesce,” said Dean Sala, Suntactics Founder and CEO. “Made in […]
MELISSA KANDEL For Gerald Rowlett, inspiration came from an email – specifically, an email detailing Montana-based builder Anders Lewendal’s project, “The All-American Home,” a house constructed entirely from materials and products made in the U.S. “I though, oh my goodness, why aren’t we doing this too?” says Rowlett, owner […]
Dylan Matthews This chart, contained within slides of a presentation by Robert Z. Lawrence and Lawrence Edwards promoting their new book “Rising Tide: Is Growth in Emerging Economies Good for the United States?,” is quite something. What this shows is that the decline in manufacturing as a […]
