2017-0726 [The New York Times]: Foxconn Says It Plans to Build Factory in Wisconsin, Adding 3,000 Jobs
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Professor Tsay was interviewed for this The New York Times report about the White House announcement of Foxconn's plans to build a $10 billion LCD factory in Wisconsin.
From the article:
Andy Tsay, a business professor at Santa Clara University who has studied where companies build factories, said that a new Foxconn plant could make sense given the products it will be making.
“A flat-panel display is not a small thing, with today’s TVs; it’s certainly not inexpensive to ship,” he said. “Building close to where the customers are makes sense for a product like that.”
Mr. Gou has been opportunistic about opening factories to meet the broader aims of his business.
Professor Tsay said that when Foxconn won its first order to make desktop computer chassis for Dell, the computer maker insisted that production occur in the United States. So Mr. Gou bought a company in Kansas City to do it.
Although the right combination of factors can make manufacturing feasible anywhere, Mr. Tsay said he doubted Apple planned to build factories in the United States, as Mr. Trump suggested this week, unless it decided to build a large product such as a car.
Read the article: https://goo.gl/rnpA33