China No Match for Dutch Plants as Philips Shavers Come Home

[FreakinDJ]

Maaike Noordhuis

Royal Philips Electronics NV (PHIA) workers in the Dutch town of Drachten who expected to be fired were astonished when the site manager said the company was bringing production of its top-priced electric shavers home from China.

Rob Karsmakers, the factory manager who returned from four years working for Philips in Asia, told the baffled crowd that the consumer-electronics company would boost investment in Drachten, where it employs 2,000 staff.

“A product engineer in Shanghai now is just as expensive as in Drachten,” said Karsmakers, who has overseen the plant since 2009, in an interview. “But in China, the headcount turnover is high. That is not sustainable.” Philips, which also lights the Eiffel tower and the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, employs a total of 14,000 people in the Netherlands.

The nation, the fifth-largest economy in the euro region, has expanded its allure as a manufacturing powerhouse next to its dominant German neighbor. The Netherlands leads in areas as varied as paints and combat uniforms for the U.S. Army. Apple Inc. (AAPL) uses chips produced by machines from ASML Holding NV (ASML) for its iPhone and iPad, and TomTom NV (TOM2) help drivers navigate unfamiliar roads.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-19/china-no-match-for-dutch-plants-as-philips-shavers-come-home-1-.html

All I can say is they must have a vastly different Corp Tax structure if they are bring manufacturing plants home

[xchrom]

1. du rec. nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. I'm not sure that US Corporate Tax Structures

actulally bear any resemblence to anywhere outside of the USA.

[FreakinDJ]

3. US Corp Tax Code outsources US Manufacturing

Far too many financial incentives in the US Corp Tax Code for outsourcing US Jobs

"If you had two companies in Pittsburgh that both were going to expand capacity and create 100 jobs, our tax code puts the company who chooses to put the plant in Pittsburgh at a competitive disadvantage over the company that chooses to move to a tax haven," says former White House economist Gene Sperling, a Clinton adviser.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2008-03-20-corporate-tax-offshoring_N.htm

[dipsydoodle]

4. Best of my knowledge

we don't have such shit in Europe. In fact inthe UK we have the exact opposite - incentives / subsidies to keep stuff home based.