Here, there and everywhere (original) (raw)
After decades of sending work across the world, companies are rethinking their offshoring strategies, says Tamzin Booth
EARLY NEXT MONTH local dignitaries will gather for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a facility in Whitsett, North Carolina. A new production line will start to roll and the seemingly impossible will happen: America will start making personal computers again. Mass-market computer production had been withering away for the past 30 years, and the vast majority of laptops have always been made in Asia. Dell shut two big American factories in 2008 and 2010 in a big shift to China, and HP now makes only a small number of business desktops at home.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Here, there and everywhere”
From the January 19th 2013 edition
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