Company/Division name | Warrior Sports |
Type of work | Manufacturing |
If manufacturing, is the company an OEM? | Yes |
Reshoring category: | Reshoring |
What product(s) and/or service(s) were outsourced domestically? | Manufacturing |
Year reshoring announced: | 2014 |
Year reshoring implemented or to be implemented: | 2014 |
Offshore, work was done: | Outsourced |
Domestically, the work will be done: | Outsourced |
Country(ies) from which reshored: | China |
City reshored to: | Windsor |
State(s) reshored to: | Canada |
If relevant, work nearshored to: | - |
Industry(ies): | Hobbies |
Product(s) reshored | Plastic Mold Tooling for Sports Equipment |
What non-domestic negative factors made offshoring less attractive? | Burden on staff, Communications, Delivery, Difficulty of innovation/product differentiation, Emergency air freigh, Freight cost, Loss of control, Strained offshore relationships, Total cost, Travel cost/time, Quality/rework/warranty, Other, Design Issues due to Cultural Differences |
What domestic positive factors made reshoring more attractive? | Automation/technology, Higher productivity, Manufacturing/engineering joint innovation (R&D), Re-design of the part, Skilled workforce availability/training |