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Sharpie Found a Way To Make Pens More Cheaply - By Manufacturing Them in the US
lundi 6 octobre 2025, 20:06 , par Slashdot
![]() It didn't used to be this way. Back in 2018, many Sharpies were made abroad. That's when Chris Peterson, who was the CFO of Sharpie maker Newell Brands challenged his team to answer a question: How could they keep Newell from becoming obsolete compared with factories in Asia? 'I felt like we had an opportunity to dramatically improve our U.S. manufacturing,' he said. Peterson is now the CEO. And these days, most Sharpies -- in all 93 colors -- are made at this 37-year-old factory. Newell did it without reducing the employee count, and without raising prices. But to get to this place took close to $2 billion in investments across the company, thousands of hours of training and a total overhaul of the production process. The result is a playbook for making low-cost, high-volume products domestically, albeit one that requires long-term planning and a lot of investment. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/1744203/sharpie-found-a-way-to-make-pens-more-cheaply---by-...
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