Cracking the Code: Reshoring is real. So is hope.
Manufacturing jobs are coming back to the USA! In September, Harry Moser, founder/president of The Reshoring Initiative and Kathy Nunnally, president of Regions Recruiting, released their 2025 Reshoring Survey. Reshoring is defined as the practice of transferring a business operation that was moved overseas back to the country from which it was relocated. Harry founded […]
Reshoring Survey Reveals 4 Priorities for US Reindustrialization
The 2025 USA Reshoring Survey, conducted among 500 U.S. manufacturers in collaboration with the Reshoring Initiative and Regions Recruiting, aimed to derive three key insights. First, to determine the strategy or the “why” driving OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to reshore; second, to understand the points of view from the contract manufacturers’ (CMs) perspectives; and third, to […]
Industry Today: Strength and Strategy
Reindustrializing America is impossible without reshoring, foreign direct investment (FDI), and strong industrial policy.
Results of 2025 reshoring survey, part 2
In the first column of our three-part series, we examined the 2025 Reshoring Survey from the OEM’s point of view. Forty five percent of relevant respondents were OEMs compared to 55 percent being contract manufacturers.
Can We Hit Goals for Reshoring American Manufacturing?
I have written about, listened to, and encouraged research on reshoring for 25 years. As pressure increases to bring back manufacturing from overseas, I’m excited but skeptical about the effort’s short-term timing and immediate prospects. It’s not just the politics of large, blanket tariffs that concern me. Factory construction and infrastructure spending, accelerated to meet […]