Is Steady okay for the 3rd Quarter?

July 21st, 2008 at 07:00am Teresa Beach-Shelow

I am one of the people who fill out John Lewis’s NIU Economic index survey. When I read the RRSTAR front page headline and the article they wrote about it I got a much different feeling than I did when I look at the results data graphs on the top of page 6C. I suggest you look at them again too. Adding together the categories same and higher comes up to some pretty good numbers. For instance manufacturing production: 31% believe it will be higher in the 3rd quarter and 54% believe it will be the same—-my companies’ the same would be pretty good!—but add the two together and you get a good percentage of manufacturing employers that are pretty positive about their next few months. When I am in the region doing sales or when companies come to our location we ask everyone—How is it going? A lot of those responses are very positive.

One thing I am noticing in the manufacturing community is the opportunities available. When the manufacturing sector was slowing in ‘99 to ‘2001 there just didn’t seem to be the opportunities that are available today. The RRValley has networked, and trained, gotten lean, and changed the way we think to the point where, I believe, we are in a different place. Do you agree?

Bloggers Blogg to elicit some type of response. They know you are there because there are stats on hits to their Blogg….do agree that 1-our local manufacturing situation would be okay if it could stay steady? and 2- that you as a person in manufacturing have more opportunities for sales, growth and profit than you did eight years ago?

If we say yes, then we need to send that positive message to the community rather than the negative message. Perception of a negative situation will stop our forward progress. I believe it is still pretty good to participate in manufacturing in the Rock River Valley—-we are making it happen! What do you say?……

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