A common theme this earnings season: U.S. business executives are ready to relocate their supply chains if the cost of importing Chinese goods becomes prohibitive.
With its exclusive license to supply promotional merchandise to the nation’s ballparks, BDA faces a massive challenge in meeting requirements for product quality and on-time delivery.
Higher labor costs in China and political pressures were supposed to drive U.S. manufacturers to bring production home. We’re still waiting for that to happen.
India is set to outpace the rest of the Asia Pacific region in factory automation, as potential workers are opting to do anything other than spend all day in sweltering textile plant.