Current Reported U.S. Suppliers fulfilling Walmart's Reshoring Initiative

	Walmart U.S. supplier	Product	Added Jobs Reported
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	True Science	Pet products in Utah	200
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	Renfro	Legwear and socks in Cleveland, TN, and Fort Payne, AL	195
12	General Electric	Energy efficient soft white bulbs	150
13	Chobani	Invested $450m to open Greek Yogurt plant in Twin Falls, ID
14	1888 Mills LLC	Towels in Griffin, GA, branded “made here” and selling 30% better than non-U.S.-made towels	35
15	Hanna’s Candle Company	Candles in Fayetteville, Arkansas; sales increased to $30m/year	60
16	Trident Case	Mobile device cases in Rancho Cucamonga, California	75
17	Toydozer	a plastic device for scooping up small toys in Pendell, PA
18	Authentic Comfort	Memory foam mattress toppers
19	Richelieu	Socks	200
20	GT Tires	Mentioned at Summit
21	Enor Corp	Plastic Toys	151
22	Arden Companies	Printed Textiles/Soft Goods
23	Creative Things	Plastic Products – dog toys, cell phone covers	104 (64 + 40 future)
24	Pace Industries	Die casting solutions for Walmart suppliers
25	American Home Manufacturing	Comforters	200
26	Dalen Products Inc.	Ceramic owls
27	Implus Footwear *	Gel insoles reshored from China	40
28	Bell Sports	Bicycle helmets to be 100% Made in USA
29	Andover Healthcare *	Bandages
30	NUK USA	Pacifiers reshored to Wisconsin
31	HanesBrands	Hosiery from Honduras to AR.	120
32	PolyTech Plastics	Knife sharpeners for Smith's Products
33	Smith's Products	Knife sharpeners
34	MarshallTown Company
	Total known jobs as of February 27, 2015:		2514

Source: Reshoring Library, February, 2015

* Source: Walmart, uncorroborated

Walmart is creating more U.S. manufacturing jobs and improving its own retail jobs. In addition to buying $250 billion more Made in USA products over 10 years, Walmart has announced a program to improve the pay and promotional opportunity of its employees.

For more blogs and data on the reshoring trend, visit the newly launched reshorenow.org.

EMP Robotic Automation: Kept from offshoring - added 160 jobs

Back in 2011 EMP Robotic Automation added automation to make their factory more lean. The result was that they did not have to move offshore, and were able to add 160 new jobs to their factory in Escanaba, MI. More companies are realizing it is possible to profitably keep manufacturing in the US.

Use the free Total Cost of Ownership Estimator TM to see if it makes sense for your company to remain in or reshore to the US.

See more Case Studies, or add your own.

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Reshoring Initiative December 2014 Newsletter

Help Us Usher in the New Year by Refining the Reshoring Database! Call to Companies Early next year, we will be publishing large portions of our data on manufacturing returning to North America, providing more accurate insights to the breadth and progress of the reshoring trend. We need your help to refine our database, which contains all companies, including OEM’s and suppliers, reported as having reshored, kept from offshoring, or foreign direct invested (FDI: foreign companies investing in the U.S.) These are broadly defined at the linked site: The Reshoring Initiative Blog: MASTER LIST OF RESHORED COMPANIES. If your company has brought to North America any work, products, components, tools, etc., please check our list and update the data on your company or direct us to someone who could do so. Or, if your company is not listed, find out more here about how to add your information to the database. We would love to hear from you. In the News One major trajectory of the trend is the expansion of international reshoring efforts. We recently compared notes with Janice Munday, Director, Advanced Manufacturing and Services (BIS) and Co-Chair of ReshoreUK, and Richard Colley, Reshoring and Business Investment, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). The U.K. faces many of the same reshoring issues that we do in the U.S., but appears to be taking a more proactive approach to getting work back. We urge the U.S. to implement our Reshoring Recommendations to match or exceed the U.K.’s commitment to economic growth via reshoring. To learn more about what the U.K. is doing, read the following speeches on the subject: Prime Minister Cameron’s Davos speech to the World Economic Forum Secretary of State Vince Cable’s speech to Industrial Strategy Conference Find out more on UK, European and Taiwanese reshoring in our blog on International Reshoring Update. Festo, Tesla and Boeing Tango with the Skills Gap. Skills training initiatives continue to evolve, but gaps remain. How will government and community colleges respond to help fill the skills gap in large reshoring cases such as Tesla, which will provide 6500 new jobs in Nevada, and Boeing, which will add 1000 jobs in Utah? Read more: Festo Didactic Opens Workforce Education Center in NJ As companies reshore, how to meet the workforce demands? Stay Alert to the Dangers of Offshoring: Risks = Costs See the latest on offshore risk assessment: The Risks of Offshoring: A Multi-Faceted Perspective. More Support for Reshoring Congratulations to Rosemary Coates on the successful launch of the Reshoring Institute. The Institute (not to be confused with the Reshoring Initiative) offers expert guidance on how to successfully reshore. We are delighted to have another organization and resource driving the cause! Walmart’s Reshoring Initiative Under Way Walmart’s U.S. Manufacturing program continues to gain momentum. A recent MASSMEP Newsletter contained a great summary of the program. We encourage companies that have Made in USA products or could decide to bring manufacturing back to contact Walmart. Go to Jobs in U.S. Manufacturing Portal (JUMP), and keep us informed of your success. Reshoring Initiative Resources Calculate TCO with the Total Cost of Ownership Estimator™ – free online tool to help evaluate sourcing alternatives and to make a case when selling against offshore competitors. See this in-depth webinar : Applying Reshoring and Total Cost in PA with Harry Moser, presented by NEPIRC. Visit our Reshoring Library, which contains 1,800+ linked articles on reshoring. Data from these articles can be accessed and sorted through the Advanced Search function. Have a story to tell? Submit your reshoring success story on our Case Studies feature. All valid cases will be posted, and we will send the submitter a Manufacturing is Cool T-shirt. Use our Economic Development Program to strengthen your region by replacing imports with local production. See our Blog for recommendations on Skilled Workforce Development in your area. Invite the Reshoring Initiative to address your or your customers' industries at a speaking engagement or meeting. See our schedule of Upcoming Events Thanks to all our supporters, and especially to our Sponsors. Reshoring successes depend on your help.. Please consider posting a link to the Reshoring Initiative on your website, and/or donating your time, talent or dollars. You can download our logo at the website. Contact us for more information on how you can help or how the Initiative can help you. Happy Holidays from the Reshoring Initiative! Harry Moser – Reshoring Initiative (847) 726-2975 Millar Kelley – Newsletter Editor and Research Analyst Join our mailing list.

Help Document the Return of Manufacturing to North America

Instructions to the MASTER LIST OF RESHORED COMPANIES

In the last 5 years, has your company brought manufacturing from overseas to North America or decided to keep manufacturing here? If so, we would like to know about it. The Reshoring Initiative keeps track of all data involved in manufacturing trends related to reshoring both through our Library of published articles, and by talking to companies directly. All manufacturing qualifies: products, assemblies, components, tooling, etc.

Click to download: MASTER LIST OF RESHORED COMPANIES

Here is how to proceed:

1. Read this Blog, then follow the link to MASTER LIST OF RESHORED COMPANIES below. To date our list contains 800+ companies.
2. If your company is listed, email us to request a spreadsheet of our record of all of your company’s data for you to review, edit and return. Please include your company name and detailed contact info.
3. If your company is not on the list or you have additional cases at your company, click here to add your company to the database. Click the arrow icon to download, enter your data, save and email back to us. 

Companies that qualify:

1. OEMs that bring back in-house manufacturing
2. Suppliers that replace offshore suppliers

DEFINITIONS OF CATEGORIES
Where parent company is headquartered	Where the product has been produced	Where product will be produced	Category
U.S., Canada or Mexico	Outside headquarters country	In the headquarters country	Reshoring
U.S., Canada or Mexico	Headquarters country	Headquarters country	KFO (Kept from Offshoring)
Any country other than the N. American country where it will be produced	Any country other than where it will be produced	In a N. American country	FDI (Foreign Direct Investment)

Not included: Expansion due to natural market growth. While this is also an important indicator of industry health, it is not within the scope of reshored production.

note:    FDI: Foreign Direct Investment,        KFO: Kept from Offshoring 

Click to download: MASTER LIST OF RESHORED COMPANIES

Why Participating is important

When other companies see your reshoring successes, it will encourage them to use TCO, which may lead to better sourcing decisions, growth in U.S. Manufacturing and American jobs and a better U.S. Economy.

Thank you for participating in our 2015 Reshoring Trends report!