...Anyone surprised ?

[ironglow]

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  Is anyone surprised that not all "American brands are necessarily American ?

  https://za.investing.com/magazine/american-companies-that-are-no-longer-american/?fbclid=IwAR2UtgxiVXz-_FzkAxdhy-XeSM-YcAAW9Z8yMuRBFJOkJOUAeU4RbnUfeLQ

   

[mcbammer]

  Certainly eye opening .    Who would a thought Campbells soup was owned by Chinee  . or General Motors  also .

[Ranger99]

Way more stuff than we can imagine
is sourced outside the US
The last couple of places I worked we
wore work uniform clothing through a
uniform rental service. They picked up
the dirty clothing and brought the cleaned
and pressed clothes back every week.
I didn't know for a long time that the
companies gathered a truckload of dirty
clothes and shop rags and trucked it
all to mexico to be washed and cleaned
and the truck brought the cleaned
garments and rags back and delivered
them to the various businesses.
You wouldn't think that a process like
that would be profitable,  but it apparently
costs more to maintain a clothes
cleaning business in the US with all
the regulatory red tape we have than
to send things out of the country and
let foreigners do a job

Added- I understand that commercial
aircraft is maintained in the same fashion

[mcbammer]

Way more stuff than we can imagine
is sourced outside the US
The last couple of places I worked we
wore work uniform clothing through a
uniform rental service. They picked up
the dirty clothing and brought the cleaned
and pressed clothes back every week.
I didn't know for a long time that the
companies gathered a truckload of dirty
clothes and shop rags and trucked it
all to mexico to be washed and cleaned
and the truck brought the cleaned
garments and rags back and delivered
them to the various businesses.
You wouldn't think that a process like
that would be profitable,  but it apparently
costs more to maintain a clothes
cleaning business in the US with all
the regulatory red tape we have than
to send things out of the country and
let foreigners do a job

Added- I understand that commercial
aircraft is maintained in the same fashion

couple  small communities  around here had laundromats for years  that drained their wash water in the local creek , They shut down when the EPA put a stop to that &  required them to dig settling ponds . Like you say no red tape in Mexico .