Off-shoring to re-shoring-is footwear cominq home?

摘要

According to Desma's md Christian Decker, shoe manufacturing is "coming home". The process-called reshoring-is the opposite of out-sourcing, the cost-cutting strategy that typified late 20th and early 21st century business and industry practice-particularly manufacturing. Production moved out of high cost countries and regions to low-cost production locations in a number of developing economies. The strategy worked as long as labour costs were sufficiently low and transglobal logistics could be managed. Desma supplies machinery to US footwear makers including military footwear manufacturers Rocky Brands, Propper International and the Weinbrenner Shoe Company. It also supplies Forsan and Justin Brands-both of which produce work boots in the US.