Reshoring Initiative Offerings

Brand new, easy-to-use website, with diverse resources:

1. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Estimator free to use on our website. Hundreds of online users. Some companies use for better sourcing decisions. Others use as a sales tool to convince customer companies to buy domestically from them. User data suggests that 25% of what has been offshored should come back if companies use TCO instead of price for sourcing decisions.

2. Our 3200+ article online Reshoring Library, sortable by state, country, industry, reasons, etc. Use to identify companies and industries that are reshoring. You can see:

    a. Which of your competitors are reshoring and why

    b. Which of your customers and prospects are reshoring what products

    c. What is happening in your state.

3. Reshoring Case Study PDF template. Contract manufacturers, OEMs, technology suppliers, distributors and associations can easily report cases which are then posted at multiple sites to increase the visibility of the reshoring trend and gain publicity for those posting.

4. Reshoring Job Count tallies mfg. jobs brought back by reshoring. Total as of January 1, 2016: 249,000+ (20% of mfg. jobs added since the Jan. 2010 low.)

5. Presentations: 100/year including webinars, TV (Fox Business, PBS, WSJ etc.), radio, etc. Including 2X at National Press Club. Upcoming Events

6. Archived webinars, TV, articles, etc. for training and selling.

7. Economic Development Plan being implemented by PA, MS, and central NY.

8. Skilled Workforce Development Plan: Skilled workforce is a must for reshoring to continue its growth.

9. Bi-monthly newsletter.

National and International Visibility

1. Inducted in Industry Week’s 2010 Manufacturing Hall of Fame.

2. Participated in the 2012 White House Insourcing Forum, spoke in a White House Insourcing panel on C-SPAN, and testified on reshoring in a 2012 Congressional hearing.

3. Won 2013 The Economist debate on reshoring and company duty to country.

4. Quality Magazine recognized Harry as the 2012 Quality Professional of the Year.

5. Received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014.

6. The Initiative is mentioned 3 times and is linked to from the Commerce Department’s ACE site.

7. Presented to mutual fund and other fund managers via BB&T bank.

8. Wrote the “Reshoring” chapter in ReMaking America, published by the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

9. Provided the reshoring white paper in a document that the International Economic Policy Group will present to the White House.

10. Demonstrated universality of our tools and logic with presentations, TV appearances, and partnerships in the Netherlands, Canada, France, Italy, and others.

11. Appeared on BBC World and French Public Television.

12. Three Master's-level theses on the topic of reshoring written and posted on reshorenow.org.

13. Exhibited at MFG Meeting 2014, Walmart's Manufacturing Summit in Denver, U.S. Commerce Department's Reshoring Summit.

Other

1. Seven presentations at universities and academic conferences to train future managers.

2. Many volunteers bringing the tools of the Initiative to their states.

3. MANEX (N. CA MEP) used our TCO Estimator to convince a 50-employee company not to move to Mexico.

4. Thirty-five corporate and trade, industry, and economic development association sponsors.

5. Convinced U.S. Department of Labor to change title and notes on BLS chart to put less focus on degrees and more on training as a path to a career.

6. Partnering with Mississippi State University in U.S.-funded Make it in America Challenge

3/1/15, updated 3/3/16

Harry C. Moser, Founder and President, Reshoring Initiative

Office +01 847 726 2975

email: harry.moser@reshorenow.org

www.reshorenow.org