Coming home, part 2- “Reshoring” could reenergize U.S. manufacturing

Ted Carter — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:01:55 +0000

As director of Mississippi State University’s Franklin Furniture Institute, Bill Martin has an up-close familiarity with the American “reshoring” trend, especially its implications for furniture manufacturing in Mississippi. He’s not convinced the trend of factories leaving China to return to the United States has arrived in Mississippi, but change is under way and the Magnolia [...]

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Furniture company announces layoffs in Miss.

Associated Press — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:37:33 +0000

ECRU — Ashley Furniture Industries has announced it will lay off 65 workers at its operation in Ecru in northeast Mississippi. The Arcadia, Wis.-based manufacturer has 2,900 workers in Mississippi. It said Tuesday that the layoffs were because of increased foreign competition. In 2008, Ashley Furniture cut about 200 jobs – 5 percent of its [...]

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Coming home, part 2- “Reshoring” could reenergize U.S. manufacturing

Furniture company announces layoffs in Miss.