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...have someone like Tom Vilsack, who understands Iowa the way he does, is going to be a tremendous benefit to us." - Mike Tramontina, director of Iowa's Department of Economic Development, Des Moines Register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

...Brazil's Tramontina has joined the global trend of outsourcing, with a curious twist: the cookwaremaker is moving manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Tramontina last month reopened a shuttered plant in Manitowoc, Wis., and plans to move both line production and raw-material processing there from China. "Once we started looking, we figured out it would be very economical to make our products domestically," says Antonio Galafassi, president of Tramontina USA. Although labor costs are higher, the plant's efficiency and its proximity to big customers offset that disadvantage. The company opened a distribution center in Houston in 1986, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Offshoring ... to the U.S. | 8/25/2005 | See Source »

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