GREENVILLE, OH—Whirlpool’s assembly plant here, which produces about 1.5 million Kitchen Aid mixers and blenders annually, is expanding and bringing some jobs from China. The plant has hired 70 people this summer, and plant leaders expect to hire another 50 in about a week.
STRONGSVILLE, OH—Blender manufacturer Vita-mix Corp. has leased a 175,000-square-foot building here for a new assembly plant. The facility will employ 100 workers.
WASHINGTON—More jobs will be coming back to the United States from offshore locations during the next eight years, according to a new report by CoreNet Global, an association of corporate real estate executives.
A case study of how the famous OEM instituted an enterprise-wide cost information management system, and a few surprising things they found along the way.
The men and women representing Team USA in this year’s Summer Olympics may have been born, raised and trained in America, but as for their stylish Ralph Lauren uniforms, those were made entirely in China.
Offshoring has, quite simply, gutted the American middle class. But it took more than the presence of several hundred million unemployed Chinese to make offshoring feasible. Some are technological, some are cultural.