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FBN’s Jeff Flock with Michael Campagna, president of Peerless-AV, on why he decided to re-shore his company’s jobs in America.
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Production back home in according to today's ADP report manufacturing -- -- 23000.
Jobs in March.
That's over 400000 jobs in the past few years our own Jeff Flock joins us live from here was a B in Aurora Illinois death.
You are watching Charles jobs being created REIT short here in the US it's really it's -- concept.
That we see a lot.
Michael -- impact guys with these the president -- -- saving which makes.
AV equipment mounting.
Equipment for a -- -- audio visual stuff when we look at.
We're looking at -- aluminum being poured into our process on the this was there is something that took place -- -- quickly through this facility this is something that used to take place in China you farmed this -- to China right.
Yes we used to do this in China and about two years ago we made a strategic decision to bring this -- back to the US.
Create -- jobs here why did you do that.
-- -- -- a couple of reasons first we had intellectual property issues and then -- avenue law yes we were being knocked off in China.
And after looking at the total cost of manufacturing.
With the statistical fees shipping fees.
Look at the total cost it's actually it was actually cheaper to do it here.
And this is interesting Charles because they're creating jobs here and we'll see you all these job -- -- -- -- in a moment.
That thing is you're not creating because the economies doing better in fact you said the recovery has been pretty slow free.
Yes we thought we'd be it would it would have added more jobs by now but W recovery has been a lot slower than we expected -- the jobs we're creating is just from -- So the jobs recreated here are not so much because of the economy but because.
It just makes better sense to do in the US with Smart American workers who are doing the job better and more efficiently than they were doing it in China which is actually nice.
Jeff Flock thank you very much we always love -- reports especially when they're -- pro American theater.
