Companies with factories outside the state would be at a competitive disadvantage, the court said.
With factories across the region, the company concentrates its high-end work in Hong Kong and labor-intensive production in China.
And in 2001, it bought out 82.5% of Grupo Simec, a steel smelter with factories in Guadalajara and Mexicali.
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The river above the Falls is lined with factories, many of them shuttered.
Founded and runs Sun Pharmaceuticals, maker of branded generics with factories in India, Europe and U.S. Investing in drug discovery.
Companies like Walmart and Cisco have built global supply chains, linking cash registers at retail outlets with factories around the world.
Other potential clients include apparel companies that need to monitor suppliers in developing countries and food companies with factories in remote areas.
Constituents as well as Japanese investors with factories on the Eastern Seaboard industrial estate look to Somchai to iron out bureaucratic glitches.
Many small companies (as well as large corporations with factories in rural America) must turn to business aircraft to fulfill their travel needs.
The company has 14 overseas subsidiaries with factories in the US, Thailand, Dubai, Egypt and Bangladesh and a research center in Singapore.
With factories revolutionized, with shelves groaning under the weight of a surfeit of goods, stores for the first time let Americans buy on credit.
In this way an industry that used to be in the hands of American or European companies, with factories in the Midwest, the English Midlands or Germany's industrial heartland, has moved to China.
There is a lack of transparency that makes it difficult to compare options and clients can be tight-lipped about their factories and manufacturers think little of collaborating with other factories to produce product.
Wal-Mart said that in 2010 it began asking its suppliers to phase out production in factories housed in multistory buildings that were shared with other factories or commercial shops.
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U.S. factories and workers are more likely to be collaborating with Chinese factories and workers in production of the same goods than they are to be competing directly.
Tapping family friends, he began trading textiles and electronics with crumbling Soviet factories while living with his parents and finishing a degree in economics at York University.
Akrapovic, with three factories, employs 600 people making high-quality titanium exhaust pipes for motorbikes and sports cars.
Among their 61 other holdings are assorted moneylosers, has-beens, polluters, jilted merger candidates and corporations with troubled factories.
If one plant finds a valuable use for a byproduct, it is quickly shared with other factories around the world.
With four factories the firm is now Hungary's third-biggest industrial company, employing some 4, 000 people and accounting for 8% of exports.
This left Visteon with 20 factories in the U.S. and 94 overseas.
Combine that with abandoned factories, a rotten school system and a 20% poverty rate and you get a real package of reasons to stay clear.
In fact, multitasking is a requirement of operations management, that venerable branch of business studies that deals with how factories, supply chains, and research projects are run.
But before undergoing redevelopment for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this square-mile slice of East London was a ghetto with decaying factories and rail yards, traces of which can still be found.
Suppliers found to manufacture goods bound for Wal-Mart in multilevel buildings shared with other factories or shops are now deemed high risk and are removed from the retailer's list of authorized suppliers, the company said in a letter to suppliers in January.
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Britain's Primark acknowledged it was using a factory in Rana Plaza, but many other retailers distanced themselves from the disaster, saying they were not involved with the factories at the time of the collapse or had not recently ordered garments from them.
San Diego businessman John Riley, whose firm handles legal and administrative issues for companies with export factories in Mexico, figures the administrative burden that's grown since NAFTA was implemented in 1993 has increased his cost of doing business as much as 20%.
Power in Dharavi, a giant Mumbai slum, is now largely tolled, with meters nestling next to curing factories piled with goat skins and people melting down used plastic cutlery.
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