It feels like a return to the past, back to when I would call myself an international lawyer, not a China lawyer.Yesterday, I met with a couple people who operate a high-tech product inspection and sourcing company and we — as so often happens these days — quickly found ourselves talking about what we are saying by way of companies moving their manufacturing out of China. It feels like the old days when manufacturing in China was not a given and companies needed to make international manufacturing decisions without Nike-sized budgets. I then talked about having worked with company that had its shoes made in Portugal and then eventually had some of its shoes made at a Portuguese-owned factory in Angola. What countries do you see as manufacturing sleepers and why?Dan is a founder of Harris Bricken, an international law firm with lawyers in Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, China and Spain.He primarily represents companies doing business in emerging market countries, having spent years building and maintaining a global, professional network. I would think most do. Our vast experience handling China-specific entity formation, contracts, intellectual property matters, and dispute resolution gives our clients the security of knowing they have a truly seasoned legal team behind them.How to Stop China Counterfeits: Register Your China IP with China CustomsHow Not to Lose Your IP When Developing a Product with Your China FactoryHow the West Can Win the Innovation Race With China I highly doubt that. I’m surprised to see an expensive country like Germany on here and not the Philippines.But what if you make toaster ovens?
These suppliers are required to adhere to a rigorous set of compliance standards, including NIKE’s The average age and percentage of female and migrant workers are calculated based on the percentage of total line workers. Nike has its products made in 41 countries, using 525 factories and a little over one million workers:What can be learned from all of this Nike info? Nike Manufacturing Map: Transparency is fundamental to NIKE, Inc. business and our approach to sustainability. So this listing ought to be very helpful for anyone in the apparel, sports equipment or footwear industries.
Nike actually lists out the specific companies it uses in each country and there can be little doubt that Nike has thoroughly vetted each of these companies and their facilities.
He most commonly speaks on China law issues and is the lead writer of the award winning China Law Blog. And democracy.Many companies watch Nike and then follow Nike into whichever country Nike locates. Nike has always been in the forefront of international manufacturing. It often means that countries are ready to move on to high-end manufacturing. Does that mean you should have your t-shirts made in Germany? Nike opened its first factory in Mainland China in 1981. It’s possible Nike has very limited amounts of specialized apparel made in Germany for Germany because doing so is cheaper or easier or better than importing Bayern Munich apparel from Vietnam.What about this list surprises you?
Do these companies engage in contract manufacturing for companies other than Nike? What countries does Nike like? His work has been as varied as securing the release of two improperly held helicopters in Papua New Guinea, setting up a legal framework to move slag from Canada to Poland’s interior, overseeing hundreds of litigation and arbitration matters in Korea, helping someone avoid terrorism charges in Japan, and seizing fish product in China to collect on a debt.He was named as one of only three Washington State Amazing Lawyers in International Law, is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (its highest rating), is rated 10.0 by AVVO.com (also its highest rating), and is a recognized SuperLawyer.Dan is a frequent writer and public speaker on doing business in Asia and constantly travels between the United States and Asia.
We agreed that China had great “soft infrastructure” for manufacturing and every other country was pretty terrible at this and how this was a major factor in how slowly companies are moving their manufacturing out of China. What can you learn from above? With China no longer the automatic choice for manufacturing, things have gotten more complicated and more interesting. I threw out Spain, Portugal, Poland, Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico, and Guatemala.But what about Nike? Next up: Vietnam. Line chart % based on total NIKE Inc. factories and workers for finished goods production and on total strategic vendors for NIKE brand materials productionTransparency is fundamental to NIKE, Inc. business and our approach to sustainability.This site is a tool to learn about the independent factories and material suppliers used to manufacture NIKE products - including the name and location of each factory and the types of products they produce. We discussed how Vietnam is bursting at the seam these days. I gave example after example of companies that had come to one of the international manufacturing lawyers at my firm for legal help We then talked about the pros and cons of manufacturing in various countries and the countries we like for manufacturing and the “sleeper countries” — those countries we believe more companies should be considering for their manufacturing. I bring all this up because hardly a day goes by without my discussing with someone “where to manufacture” something.