Working for Anonymous Funds | Bill Waddell

See on Scoop.itlean manufacturing
Vancouver island“There is a company I know well that will remain nameless that has about 300 employees, and they manufacture stuff on Vancouver Island – Just outside of Victoria, British Columbia.  The major markets for their products are gradually shifting from the Northwestern USA and western Canada to the Southeastern USA.  That puts them about 2,400 miles as the crow flies from more and more of their customers, but since crows can’t take their products to market it is actually a lot farther than that.

Closing their plant has never been an option.  They simply accept the fact that manufacturing on an island is never good, and being that far from their customers is a huge disadvantage, so they have no choice (at least no choice they are willing to consider) but to tighten their chinstraps and do that much better to overcome their geographic problems….”

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