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In a Q&A session, Entrada Group’s vice president of business development, Doug Donahue explains how the company helps European manufacturers establish a low-cost manufacturing base in central Mexico. Q) Tell me how the Entrada Group instigates an offshore manufacturing operation and business model with its aerospace customers? A) “Entrada works on the philosophy that there [...]
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Based on an Interview with Entrada Group’s Doug Donahue Mexico is resurgent as a manufacturing and export base for the automotive industry. While the country has suffered from violence and security issues relating to drug crime in recent years, the automotive market has been growing steadily, the peso has remained stable to the dollar, and [...]
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In addition to its lower labor costs, Mexico’s proximity to the Americas and its stable, transparent operating environment are making it a location of choice for many U.S. companies. Byline: Douglas L. Donahue, Entrada Group As manufacturers consider ways to maintain competitiveness, one of their most common questions is, “Where is it cheaper to establish manufacturing [...]
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Based on an Interview with Entrada Group’s Doug Donahue With the loss of China’s low-cost manufacturing crown to Mexico, the eyes of the world are now firmly fixed upon Latin America’s leading recipient of foreign investment as companies rethink their global sourcing strategies. Marius Goubert investigates how Mexico is seeing investment across the board, from [...]
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Weighing China against Mexico as a manufacturing location based on labor costs alone is a false comparison. Mexico’s proximity to the US and Canada, highly competitive cost structure, and transparency make it a winning location, hands down, according to Axiom, the New York-based manufacturer of fishing rods, owned by St. Croix Rods, and Rapsody, Inc. [...]
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Based on an Interview with Entrada Group’s Doug Donahue The possibilities for manufacturing in the NAFTA region inevitably raise the question: In which of the three countries – Canada, the US or Mexico – should I produce? Mexico is the economic powerhouse of Latin America. It accounts for almost a quarter of the Latin American [...]
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Zacatecas Pushing Strong For the Development of Central Mexico, MexicoNOW Staff Report Based on an Interview with Entrada Group’s Doug Donahue Zacatecas is a magnet for competitive foreign investment. This is because it comes with abundant human, natural and technical resources. It has unmatchable strategic location. The place features a government committed to sustainable economic [...]
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Our clients tell us that they’ve learned a lot since moving manufacturing to Mexico. By Doug Donahue They are surprised at how many things they just didn’t understand, and how operating under a manufacturing shelter agreement saved them a tremendous amount of money, time and frustration – and even more so with the help of [...]
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Leveraging Cost Reductions in Labor, Supply Chain and Administrative Overhead By Doug Donahue Mexico shelter operations have always acted primarily as a turn-key solution to access Mexico’s cost effective labor force. But now, with the current highly competitive environment both for the manufacturers and in offshore manufacturing options from countries in Asia and Eastern Europe, [...]
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BASED IN DENDERMONDE, Belgium, D&M Premium Sound Solutions (D&M PSS) is one of the world’s leading audio companies, delivering best-in-class solutions and services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as BMW, Ford, GM, PSA, Toyota and Volkswagen. With global development & production centres in Belgium, China and India, plus Hungary and the Ukraine, D&M PSS has now [...]