No problem with the off topic stuff. They are not moving all their
manufacturing to the US; just some of the time sensitive stuff where making
it in Indonesia and then shipping it here takes too long for the brief sales
cycle. (eg a shoe for a winning team's logo on it. such as the Super Bowl)
I live down the street from Nike's headquarters - no, I don't work for
them - and so I've met some of the people that work there. The latest thing
that really torques the employees is that Nike has to cut people and limit
raises and they just signed a (5 or 7 year) contract with a high school
senior for $90 million dollars. You have to sell a heck of a lot of shoes
to make back that amount of mola. I am not saying the guy isn't good, but
that seems like someone was smoking something or someone has negatives.
Jim
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"Nuno Souto" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
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> > On a Off topic note Nike is moving some of their manufacturing back to
the
> > USA. They find that they can be more nimble here and save a significant
> > amount of money. (and still pay US wages).
>
> Yeah,yeah. I have not a single doubt at the first
> opportunity they'll do it all over again. What happened
> is they got so much bad PR for what they did in Indonesia
> they simply had to change, whatever the cost.
>
> As I said: these things have a hidden cost. It's a pity that
> myopic senior management accepts on-the-fly spreadsheets with nice
> graphics as enough justification to go ahead with this sort
> of thing. Without once considering the TOTAL cost of such
> measures. Or auditing the nice graphics.
>
> Apologies for the OT content, but quite frankly my level of
> tolerance for this sort of crap has gone way below zero nowadays.
> I dont' for a second consider that somehow companies like this
> have "seen the light". They'll do it again if given even
> one chance. Wait until China opens its doors.
>
> The whole thing is beyond contempt. Two centuries ago
> everyone called it slave trading. Nowadays they call it
> economic rationalism and globalisation.
> Change the flies, same s**t.
>
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Mon May 26 2003 - 16:59:17 CDT
