Walmart Reshoring Update

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
3	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.