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...taking the fall? Mattel's stock price is down 24% from its high in May. The co-owner of a Chinese company named by Mattel as the supplier of some of the toxic toys recently committed suicide...
...continue expanding by 12-15% a year through 2010. Steven L. Fisher, who heads Caterpillar's reman division, says Europe offers particularly alluring growth opportunities because, unlike in the Americas, its market is highly fragmented, "with no dominant players." Christophe Decaix, manager of the reman program for auto-parts supplier Bosch, agrees: "There is definitely room for consolidation." Indeed, Cat recently acquired two rival operators: Wealdstone Engineering in Rushden, England, and France's Eurenov. Asia, meanwhile, may one day prove to be equally fertile territory, as the concept of remanufacturing is only just catching on there...
...weekend spent wowing international broadcast and print media, client-carriers and supplier-partners culminated in Sunday's event, as former TV news anchor Tom Brokaw hosted the 787 Dreamliner premiere from a stage set up in Boeing's 40-36 Building, a sprawling 10-sq. acre facility north of Seattle. In addition to the 15,000 gathered in Everett (wearing badges that read "Success Runs in the Family"), about 25,000 Boeing employees and retirees also watched the broadcast from the Seattle Seahawks' 50,000-seat stadium rented for the occasion. The event, broadcast to 45 countries in nine languages...
...factory has been designed so that new production processes can be added to the assembly line at any time without disrupting the work flow. That's a huge advantage over more traditional lines, which need to be shut down for any changeover or addition. Several key suppliers are based in the plant, rather than in a nearby supplier park. Jörg Baumheuer says that makes for easy communication when problems arise. He's a manager at the French auto-parts firm Faurecia, which assembles cockpits and seats for BMW in Leipzig and some other plants. The advantage for Faurecia...
...Hindmarch responded that the message of We Are What We Do is that by changing the small things you do in everyday life you can make a large difference. Her company, she said, worked with a reputable supplier in China whose workers are paid double the minimum wage and that complies with Chinese Labor Law. And the bags were shipped by sea, and carbon credits were purchased to offset the environmental impact of production and transport...