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This year's survey of the best cities for jobs contains one particularly promising piece of news: the revival of the country's long distressed industrial sector and those regions most dependent on it.
Manufacturing has grown consistently over the past 21 months, and now, for the first time in years, according to data mined by Pepperdine University's Michael Shires, manufacturing regions are beginning to move up on our list of best cities for jobs.
United Kingdom-based Altitude Group, parent to Trade Only, announced today that it had received an indicative offer for the company's promotional marketing division. The company did not disclose who made the offer at the time of print.
Sue Kennedy, president of the UMAPP board of directors and regional sales manager for Crown Products, contacted Promo Marketing to provide further details about yesterday's KSTP 5 Eyewitness News article.
Staples closed Friday's positive trading session at $20.89. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $17.45 and 52-week high of $23.75. Staples stock has been showing support around $20.48 and resistance in the $21.58 range.
U.S. manufacturing companies, long known for layoffs and shipping jobs overseas, now find themselves in a very different position: scrambling for scarce talent at home.
Large and small manufacturers of everything from machine tools to chemicals are scouring for potential hires in high schools, community colleges and the military. They are poaching from one another, retraining people who used to have white-collar jobs, and in some cases even hiring former prisoners who learned machinist skills behind bars.
Even with unemployment near 9 percent, manufacturers are struggling to find enough skilled workers because of a confluence of three trends.
A report aired Sunday night on 5 Eyewitness News in Minnesota, criticizing the state for spending money on promotional products. Watch the video and let us know what you think.
Within the next five years, the United States is expected to experience a manufacturing renaissance as the wage gap with China shrinks and certain U.S. states become some of the cheapest locations for manufacturing in the developed world, according to a new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
QR Code use has skyrocketed in past months. Earlier this year Mobio reported a 1200 percent rise in QR code scanning.
Increased use has been driven by high profile marketing campaigns along with a rise in smartphone adoption. According to Scanbuy's latest trend report, QR codes are now being scanned more than 1D barcodes for the first time since the second quarter of 2010.
The codes are easy to use and usually free. They can quickly be "re-programmed" at any time to suit current product or promotional activity no matter when the original was deployed.
Michael Teahan, like his father, mother, and uncles before him, is a small business owner. The 52-year-old has spent most of his adult life running his own businesses: a restaurant, a coffee bar and various companies involved in the espresso machine business.
Jeff Anderson, owner of Proforma Prosource Marketing Group, is biking across the country to raise awareness for Big Brothers and Big Sisters. His trek kicks-off on May 8 in Los Angeles and ends June 24 in Boston.
