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!

Can Government Incentives Drive Reshoring? Graduate Wael Sedky Asks the Question

The Reshoring Initiative is pleased to publish an MBA Dissertation from Wael Sedky of the University of Wales, The Impact of Government Policies on Reshoring Efforts. Mr. Sedky's research surveys companies to determine what the driving factors behind their reshoring efforts are, and to determine whether or not government policies have or could have a strong role in influencing supply chain decisions.

While Mr. Sedky finds that current government policies do not have a strong influence on current reshoring efforts, he points out several policies -- such as tax credits and cuts, worker training and retention tax incentive programs -- that governments could enact to further encourage reshoring.

The Reshoring Initiative is pleased to publish the paper on our website, here.

Reshoring may reduce wage inequality, suggests research by Nikie Knoben

The Reshoring Initiative is pleased to publish Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) masters' candidate Nikie Knoben's thesis, THE EFFECT OF RESHORING ON WAGE INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: A theoretical assessment.

Ms. Knoben's paper offers a comparative investigation of three theoretical models to assess whether the reshoring of production and jobs will bring a decrease in the wage gap. She looks at globalization as a driver of wage inequality in this country, and speculates on how the reversal of this trend could, in turn, reduce wage inequality. Her models depict mixed results on wage from reshoring's impact, but in general she concludes that it is possible for reshoring to decrease the wage gap.

Read the full thesis here.

Reshoring and TCO Analysis Find Support in Graduate Thesis by Ferran Cabratosa

The Reshoring Initiative is pleased to publish Illinois Institute of Technology graduate student Ferran Cabratosa's thesis, titled: “Reshoring.”

Mr. Cabratosa's paper offers a concise and thorough understanding of the precursors, causes, and consequences of both offshoring and reshoring, and ultimately makes the case for reshoring.

Included in the topics are the macroeconomic trends that led from pre-Industrial Revolution to twentieth century offshoring to twenty-first century reshoring. Using an enormity of data, Mr. Cabratosa demonstrates that reshoring production is often the most cost-effective supply chain decision a manufacturer can make.

The Reshoring Initiative's Harry Moser assisted Mr. Cabratosa in his research, and is pleased to publish his paper on our website, here.