BY NATHAN LAYNE Business News | Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:19pm EDT Wal-Mart Stores will begin charging fees to almost all vendors for stocking their items in new stores and for warehousing inventory, raising pressure on suppliers as the world’s largest retailer battles higher costs from wage hikes. The company said it started informing suppliers about
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By Emma DumainPosted at 12:32 p.m. on June 18 Updated 3:22 p.m. | The House narrowly passed Trade Promotion Authority Thursday — the first step of many to resurrect President Barack Obama’s trade agenda after his own party torpedoed a combined bill last week. The chamber voted 218-208 on TPA, which will give him the latitude to
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Peter T. Leach, Editor-at-Large | Jun 12, 2015 11:57AM EDT After the eight months of West Coast port congestion that crimped U.S. shippers’ supply chains, 43 percent of surveyed shippers who have negotiated annual trans-Pacific contracts said they will shift shipments to East Coast ports. But of those shippers who told JOC.com they would reroute
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Some companies are shifting production to domestic sites, but controlling costs takes some work By: TARUN SHUKLA June 2, 2015 11:36 p.m. ET Coming home isn’t easy. Ranir LLC learned that lesson all too well. The company, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., has long used factories overseas to make many of the dental-care products it
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