Walmart’s role as a driving force is becoming clear, creating a focused business opportunity for many U.S. manufacturers: consumer product companies directly and their industrial suppliers indirectly. Walmart’s reshoring commitment dwarfs that of any other U.S. company. In the 10th year of its program Walmart will be buying $50 billion more U.S. products per year, generating, by our estimate, about 300,000 additional manufacturing jobs (by Boston Consulting Group’s estimate,1,000,000 total jobs). So far, 26 companies have been officially announced in the program, generating 3654 known direct jobs. See chart below for details.
Walmart U.S. supplier
|
Product
|
Jobs added
|
|
1
|
Élan-Polo
|
Injection-molded
footwear in Hazlehurst, GA
|
250
|
2
|
Louis Hornick &
Company
|
Window covering
and home textiles in a new facility in Allendale County, SC
|
125
|
EveryWare Global, Inc.
|
Producing bakeware,
tabletop and household glassware and canning jars in expanded facility
|
2
|
|
4
|
Mohawk Home
|
Rugs and mats
|
|
5
|
Kent Bicycles
|
Bicycles
|
175
|
6
|
Tailor
Made Products/Anchor Hocking
|
Kitchen utensil manufacturer, making a $2 million
investment in WI
|
12
|
7
|
Redman
& Associates
|
Will
invest $6.5 million to manufacture ride-on toys in a facility in Arkansas
|
|
8
|
Korona
Candles
|
Will
invest $18.5 million in Virginia to produce Mainstays Tealight Candles.
|
170
|
9
|
Kayser-Roth
|
No Nonsense
legwear
|
100
|
10
|
Hampton Products
|
Screen and
storm door hardware in Shell Lake, WI
|
150
|
11
|
Element
Electronics
|
New facility in
Winnsboro, SC to produce flat screen TVs (1500 figure announced at Summit)
|
1500
|
12
|
Renfro
|
Legwear and
socks in Cleveland, TN, and Fort Payne, AL
|
195
|
13
|
General
Electric
|
Energy
efficient soft white bulbs
|
150
|
14
|
Chobani
|
Invested $450m to open Greek Yogurt plant in Twin Falls, ID
|
|
15
|
1888 Mills LLC
|
Towels in
Griffin, GA, branded “made here” and selling 30% better than non-U.S.-made
towels
|
35
|
16
|
Hanna’s Candle
Company
|
Candles in
Fayetteville, Arkansas; sales increased to $30m/year
|
60
|
17
|
Trident Case
|
Mobile device
cases in Rancho Cucamonga, California
|
75
|
18
|
Toydozer
|
a plastic
device for scooping up small toys in Pendell, PA
|
|
19
|
Authentic
Comfort
|
Memory foam
mattress toppers
|
|
20
|
Richelieu
|
Socks
|
200
|
21
|
GT Tires
|
Mentioned at Summit
|
|
22
|
Enor Corp
|
Plastic Toys
|
151
|
23
|
Arden Companies
|
Printed Textiles/Soft Goods
|
|
24
|
Creative Things
|
Plastic Products – dog toys, cell phone covers
|
104 (64 + 40 future)
|
25
|
Pace Industries
|
Die Casting Solutions for Walmart suppliers
|
|
26
|
American Home Manufacturing
|
Comforters
|
200
|
Total known jobs as
of Oct 7, 2014
|
3654
|
Source: Reshoring
Library, October 2014
* Please note: The Reshoring Initiative does the best it can to have accurate up-to-date data. If you are aware of newer, better data, please send it to us. Thank you.
To find out more about Walmart's reshoring progress, visit:
Global Cost Structures, Consumer Preferences and TCO Drive Reshoring
Walmart’s U.S. Manufacturing Summit - Just the tip of the iceberg
The not-for-profit Reshoring Initiative is helping actual and potential suppliers determine whether they can profit via U.S. production. We encourage companies to pursue supplying Walmart by going to Jobs in U.S. Manufacturing (JUMP). Call on the Reshoring Initiative and its tools for help understanding the P&L impact of shifting to U.S. production.
Excellent review of this US initiative. I wonder what Asda (UK subsidiary of Walmart) is doing to help the UK picture?
Nice to see things going back this way again, It seems the US is getting back up to pace again. Great post thanks.
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