Crazy thought
Why don't we just start making toys in the U.S.?
To replace your Fisher-Price recalled toys, maybe you could try Holgate Toys. While they are no longer made in exclusively in Kane, Pennsylvania, they are still mostly made in the U.S.
A Wooly Willy from Smethport Toys?
To replace your Fisher-Price recalled toys, maybe you could try Holgate Toys. While they are no longer made in exclusively in Kane, Pennsylvania, they are still mostly made in the U.S.
A Wooly Willy from Smethport Toys?
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Some interesting things that are turning up in the South China Morning Post include noting that the executive that hung himself was a Hong Kong businessman who was brought in ten years ago to make this business profitable. When I hear on the BBC how this is something that can only happen in a Communist country, I wonder how they figure the Hong Kong guy got in there. Also that the pigment supplier (Zhongxing in Dongguan) faked their quality certificates to the paint supplier (Dongxing New Energy) who supplied the paint to the toy factory, Lee Der in Foshan. All of these are in Guangdong province by the way. Manufacturing companies everywhere (including the US) rely on supplier certifications rather than their own redundant testing. It happens all the time, whether it is chemical make-up, or hardness of a metal component, or whatever. For years I personally vouched for certain qualities or properties of a material based only on my supplier's certifications. Lucky I was never bit in the backside on that.
The most outrageous covereage we've seen was last night on the BBC. They had this British guy, an supposed expert on Chinese business that said, among other weird things, that any company with greater than eight employees has a communist Party oversight board. Randy and I just kept looking at each other, asking each other if we heard what we thought we heard. I mean, maybe that is true for the state-owned enterprise, but we've never heard of it.
Where the heck do they make the Holgate toys now, if not in Kane? Does the shop across from G'ma's house still have stuff in it, or are the windows painted to fool out of towners like me?
http://www.kanerepublican.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1056&Itemid=27
Now their website says they've been produced in Western Pennsylvania for so many years.