In article , zadoc
wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:45:23 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

The story is more complex than many realize, however. For example, Sanyo had
a TV plant in Arkansas that supplied Sears. Sears cut them off (they
perfected squeezing suppliers decades before Wal-Mart got into it). Sanyo
wanted to divide the plant and move part of it to Mexico, and the other part
to Asia. But Wal-Mart told them they would pay more for the TV sets if they
kept the plant in the US.

So they did. And now that Sanyo plant in Arkansas is the world's largest
producer of TVs.

Are you sure about that? How many have they been producing? Consider
the following article:

As you indicate, Sanyo is way down on the list. As the Sanyo.com site
itself says, combining the Tijuana plant with the Arkansas plant yields
only 3 million t.v. sets annually. Way down on the list.

Besides a bunch of very large Korean and Japanese factories, there are
new factories in China and India, each with production over 3 million
sets per year.

Sanyo says:

"This new "Super Line" alone will increase production by over 2000
televisions per day. SANYO Manufacturing Corporation's two facilities
in Forrest City, Arkansas and Tijuana, Mexico are both ISO 9001 and ISO
14001 certified. Together the two plants capacity is over 3 million
televisions annually."

http://www.sanyo.com/aboutsanyo/corp_pro_man_smc.cfm


This probably means the Arkansas operation is not even in the top 10
worldwide site.




UPDATED: 11:15, July 30, 2004
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The new company will have more than 20,000 sales terminals around the
world and plans to sell 20 million color TV sets in 2004, Zhao said.
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