Sentry Adds Jobs Locally From China

www.rnews.com ^ | Aug 29, 2005 | Rocco Vertuccio

[bird4four4]

It's common to hear about jobs moving out of Rochester, either overseas, or down south. A local company is doing just the opposite. The Sentry Group is moving some jobs from China to East Rochester.

Sentry Group announced Monday it will move some of the production of its gun safes from Shangai China to its manufacturing base in East Rochester. The company renovated 30,000 square feet of space at its headquarters in East Rochester to make the large gun safes.

The move will add 30 new jobs over the next four years. Sentry decided to make the move because it was more cost effective to make the gun safes in the United States, closer to the company's customer base. Also, economic incentives from the state and Monroe County helped make the move attractive.

"The incentive package assembled by our partners, COMIDA, Empire State Development, and RG&E, helped close the gap between competitive site offers from other regions of the United States and Mexico, in order for us to position ourselves for success with overseas competitors," says Sentry Group CEO and President Jim Brush.

The company will start making the gun safes inEast Rochester immediately. By 2007, half of the company's gun safes will be made locally, the rest in China.

Sentry Group is a family-owned business. It has been in East Rochester for 75 years.

[bird4four4]

If you ever need to buy a safe, consider Sentry, a good American company.

[staytrue]

"Also, economic incentives from the state and Monroe County helped make the move attractive. "

By logical extension, taxes, lawyers and govt. regulation provide incentives for US companies to continue to move overseas.

[bird4four4]

Yes, if we have less taxes and regulations, it would be easier to keep jobs local.

[cripplecreek]

WOW 30 jobs over 4 years.

[bird4four4]

Gotta start somewhere. Just the fact that 'it was more cost effective to make the gun safes in the United States' is a positive sign that others may follow suit.

[Iscool]

Gotta start somewhere. Just the fact that 'it was more cost effective to make the gun safes in the United States' is a positive sign that others may follow suit.

I doubt it...The cost factor had to be in the shipping of the heavy safes...