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NEW ALBANY, Ohio— A $7.95 bottle of Bath & Body Works foaming hand soap used to take three months to put together. The pieces had to travel more than 13,000 miles from China, Canada and Virginia to the company’s Ohio distribution center.
Bath & Body Works decided it needed to get new products to market more quickly. The result was a production initiative with little parallel in corporate America.
Now every step of production occurs at plants just feet from each other on the company’s dedicated “beauty park” on the outskirts of Columbus. One factory makes the foaming pump and mechanism. Another makes the bottle itself, a third makes the label, a fourth makes the soap, fills the bottle, attaches the label and screws on the top. A fifth packages it. Getting a bottle to distribution is down to 21 days and a few miles. A majority of Bath & Body Works products, which are sold in its own stores, are made on site.
The Biden administration is spending hundreds of billions of dollars aimed at boosting the domestic presence of industries deemed strategic, including electric cars, batteries and semiconductors.
The government money, along with roaring consumer demand and persistent supply-chain issues, are leading to a factory building boom, with spending at its highest level in at least 20 years. Over the next decade, public and private investment will amount to $3.5 trillion, the government estimates.
www.wsj.com
Other politicians talk about bringing jobs home and yet still manufacture their political promotional items in China. Biden not only talks the talk but walks the walk. Good to see that even WSJ is giving Biden credit where credit is due.
Bath & Body Works decided it needed to get new products to market more quickly. The result was a production initiative with little parallel in corporate America.
Now every step of production occurs at plants just feet from each other on the company’s dedicated “beauty park” on the outskirts of Columbus. One factory makes the foaming pump and mechanism. Another makes the bottle itself, a third makes the label, a fourth makes the soap, fills the bottle, attaches the label and screws on the top. A fifth packages it. Getting a bottle to distribution is down to 21 days and a few miles. A majority of Bath & Body Works products, which are sold in its own stores, are made on site.
The Biden administration is spending hundreds of billions of dollars aimed at boosting the domestic presence of industries deemed strategic, including electric cars, batteries and semiconductors.
The government money, along with roaring consumer demand and persistent supply-chain issues, are leading to a factory building boom, with spending at its highest level in at least 20 years. Over the next decade, public and private investment will amount to $3.5 trillion, the government estimates.
A Soap Maker Cracks the Code to ‘Made in America’
Soap maker Bath & Body Works wanted suppliers to set up in an Ohio city near its headquarters. The result was a production effort with little parallel in corporate America.
www.wsj.com
Other politicians talk about bringing jobs home and yet still manufacture their political promotional items in China. Biden not only talks the talk but walks the walk. Good to see that even WSJ is giving Biden credit where credit is due.
