So, whatever happened with companies like PPG (pittsburgh plate glass).

[Mind_your_head]

3M (Minnestota Mining & Manufacturing), etc? They were Titans in there day. Where are they today?

[Horse with no Name]

1. Don't know where the CEO's are

but it is a sure bet that the workers are either unemployed or underemployed and the people making their products do not speak English and most likely work for a few cents a day!
Ahhh the fresh smell of capitalism.

[Mind_your_head]

3. The smell of capitalism is a very raunchy stench I have come to learn. n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. PPG's still based in Pittsburgh...

...still making plate glass among other things -- and still has plants in PA, among other places.

[imdjh]

4. The thing that amazes me is when products that aren't labor intensive are imported anyway.

There was a time when we had people who could figure out when Japan was subsidizing and dumping. With China, we seem to simply look at the price, not even the quality.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. +1 nt

[Mind_your_head]

6. Standard Oil (of Indiana)......after the breakup, became Amoco

American Oil Company. Which was purchased by BP (British Petoleum).

What do *I* know, but all of these equity *flippers* are the same as *house flippers* on a corporate scale. Un-real.

[sakabatou]

7. Doesn't 3M still make tape?

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Took me less than a minute to find out that 3M...

is still in Minesota, has 76,000 employees and remains a leader in product innovation.

[Mind_your_head]

9. How does that compare historically with "where they where"?

Not sure of the answer, but did you do that calculation?

TIA

[TreasonousBastard]

11. They sold off things like Imation and some pharmaceuticals...

recently, but they are growing and are part of the D-J Industrials.

They're doing Ok.

[OHdem10]

10. G. Imeldt, Head , GE has said our Economy is unsustainable

unless we get our mfg up to 20%. That should tell us something.

In other words along the way our "brilliant" leaders decided
we should be a "Service Economy" Guess what they were wrong.
This is what is contributing to our current crisis. This
economy cannot be sustained on Service Jobs.

We sent the manufacturing jobs out of country. OOPs.

I hope people listen to Imeldt and people like him.

This Globalization Crisis is wrecking havoc on our country.

[Mind_your_head]

12. +1

[whyverne]

13. Those were the days. We had a PPG plant right down the street.

You could graduate high school, walk a few blocks down and get a job at PPG paying about 3 bucks an hour. Since a brand new car was only about $2000, that was pretty sweet.

You gotta make about 30 bucks an hour now to have that kind of spending power.

There were 3 mom and pop grocery stores in town and a drug store. Now there's nothing but garages and bars.