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After Years Behind the Scenes,Chinese Join the Name Game (Buy American Brand Names)
Wall Street Journal ^
| 26 December 2003
| GABRIEL KAHN
Posted on 12/26/2003 7:41:06 AM PST by shrinkermd
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
[history]
In 1905, in a backyard factory in Cleveland, workers began making vacuum cleaners for a company that became known as Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co.
Almost a century later, Royal, which established the popular Dirt Devil brand, stopped making almost all of its vacuums in Cleveland because it realized it was cheaper to pay a Chinese company to do it.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brand; china; manufacturing; names; trade
FYI. My feeling is I am supposed to "doom and gloom" over this article, but just can't do it.
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: shrinkermd
BTTT
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posted on
12/26/2003 11:47:31 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Iraqi blogger to President Bush: "The bones in the mass graves salute you, Avenger of the Bones.")
To: shrinkermd
it is over-just enjoy the ride.
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posted on
12/26/2003 12:24:15 PM PST
by
Destro
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To: shrinkermd
bump
To: shrinkermd
Laugh now, but if war breaks out, where will we get our Dirt Devil vacuums from?
You'll be crying all over your dirty floor then.
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:07:21 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: shrinkermd
Major U.S. retail chains have played these weaker brands against each other, demanding bigger discounts, faster delivery and lower inventories
Walmart?
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posted on
01/05/2004 10:00:25 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2004!)
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