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59. Nike
Original Headquarters: Beaverton, OR
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, Sri Lanka
Speaking of Nike, the athleticwear giant has tons of factories overseas. One in five pairs of Nikes are made in China, making the country the second-largest producer of Nikes in the world. China and Nike have contracts with 180 manufacturers, which employ more than 210,000 people. The largest producer is in Vietnam, and there are also plants in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan, and Brazil.
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Nike and Adidas have been shrinking their China manufacturing. In 2012, one in three pairs of Nikes (32%) were made in China. Now, 19% of Nikes are made there. Nike has not stated the reason for the decrease.
60. Levi’s
Original Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Italy, Japan, China, USA
Levi’s Jeans are one of America’s biggest denim retailers, selling jeans and jackets by the millions. According to the company, Levi has $5.76 billion in net sales each year. The company became popular in the sixties, as its consumer base expanded from cowboys, farmers, and factory workers to other buyers.
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The company went public in the early seventies, and, at that point, it had operations in 50 countries. Levi’s makes over 99% of their jeans in Japan, Italy, and China, as well as other non-American countries. They do have a small line, their 501 Jeans, made in a factory in North Carolina.
61. American Girl
Original Headquarters: El Segundo, CA
Purchased By: Mattel
Country: China
American Girl dolls are super popular in America, and they are worth thousands of dollars today if you have the old, antique variations. American Girl dolls were made by Pleasant Company, a business founded in 1986 by Pleasant Rowland. The dolls were, initially, only available via mail order.
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Once Mattel bought the brand in 1998, Pleasant Company’s toys were more widely available. As demand increased, so did production. The dolls are now made in Germany. Their books are made in Wisconsin. The dolls’ accessories (purses, hats, etc.) are made in China. The accessories and dolls are shipped in and assembled right in Wisconsin.
62. Chevrolet
Originals Headquarters: Detroit, MI
Purchased By: General Motors
Country: N/A
Chevrolet is one of the “Big Three” automakers, and it often touts the fact that it is America-made. While the company does assemble its cars in its famous Detroit, Michigan factories, its parts are often made in China. Chevy makes a little over half of its parts overseas.
Chevrolet Volt 2014 @EVNetCanada / Twitter.com
The Chevy Silverado, for example, has 46% American-made parts. The Chevy Colorado has 51% American-made parts. Chevy sells cars in all but nine countries. In South Korea, Chevy cars are especially popular, though they retailed under the brand “Daewoo Motors” until 2011. The most “American-made” car on Chevy’s roster is the Corvette.
63. Radio Flyer
Original Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Purchased By: Hasbro
Country: China
Radio Flyer is a toy company headquartered in Chicago. It is most famous for its red toy wagon, though it also makes toy horses, bikes, trikes, and ride-ons. The company has been around for over a century, and it has kept its founding location as its headquarters since its inception.
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The toy company said in a 2004 interview that it was “a Chicago brand.” Radio Flyer makes its scooters, tricycles, and most of its other toys in China. The exception is its plastic red wagon, which is made in Wisconsin. Radio Flyer also made the world’s biggest wagon to celebrate its eightieth anniversary.
64. Craftsman
Original Headquarters: New Britain, CT
Purchased By: Sears
Country: China, Taiwan
Craftsman tools can be found in stores like Lowe’s, Sears, Home Depot, Walmart, and pretty much anywhere that home improvement products are located. Craftsman has factories in America, but it also has outsourced some of its manufacturing to Taiwan and China. Sears, its parent company, made that call.
Craftsman @craftsman / Twitter.com
Sockets, wrenches, and ratchets are now made in Taiwan and China by Apex Tool Group, which contracts with Craftsman. Western Forge, another tool production company, has a contract with Craftsman as well. Western Forge makes its tools in America. So, overall, the production of the tools is split between the two continents.
65. Samsonite
Original Headquarters: Mansfield, MA
Purchased By: CVC Capital Partners
Country: China, Hungary, India
Samsonite is a luggage company that has been around since 1910. It was founded in Denver, Colorado by Jesse Shwayder. It stayed out West for 91 years before ownership changes moved it across the country. Now, Samsonite is headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Samsonite makes most of its luggage in Asia and Europe.
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It has plants in Hungary, China, and India. Samsonite’s plant in Nashik, India makes about 40% of all of its hard luggage. The company is very popular in China, not just for manufacturing, but for sales. It sells two-thirds of all products in China, via contract-manufacturers in Shanghai.
66. Dell
Original Headquarters: Round Rock, TX
Purchased By: N/A
Country: China, Malaysia, Brazil, Ireland
Dell is one of the largest computer companies in the world. Owned by Michael Dell and founded in the eighties, the company has split its computer manufacturing. It makes all of its servers in Austin, Texas. It used to build its laptops in America, but it was cheaper to outsource.
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Now, the company has laptop factories in Mexico, Brazil, Malaysia, China, and Ireland. Its Limerick, Ireland plant is build-to-order, and the Irish plant got a lot of press when it opened up in 2000. The plant is 40,000 square feet, making it one of Ireland’s largest factories. It employs more than three-thousand people.
67. Black & Decker
Original Headquarters: New Britain, CT
Purchased By: Sears
Country: China
Black & Decker is a corporation that makes all types of home improvement tools and products. It was founded and is headquartered in Maryland, where it has remained for more than a century. The company reports revenue of $11.41 billion. The company splits its manufacturing between America and China.
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It has thirty factories in America, with locations in Missouri, Connecticut, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The majority of its manufacturing takes place in China. There are also a few plants in Europe. The company employs 16,600 American workers, and it has employed thousands of Americans, according to its website, “for 175 years.”
68. Ford
Headquarters in: Detroit, MI
Purchased By: N/A
Country: International
Ford is American-founded, but it has grown to become a multinational company. The vehicle, like Chevy, touts its American-made status, and it keeps its Detroit factories running all year-round. However, Ford makes some of its parts in China, and it has manufacturing locations in nearly every country.
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Ford makes many of its parts in China and then imports them to America, where Ford cars and trucks are assembled in Detroit. Ford gets the vast majority of its car/truck parts from one-hundred suppliers. It gets its transmissions in Germany. Some Fords are up to 90% American-made, in terms of parts. Others are far lower.
69. G.I. Joe
Original Headquarters: Pawtucket, RI
Purchased By: Hasbro
Country: China, Taiwan
G.I. Joe was originally called “America’s Movable Fighting Man,” and it was based on the American military. Now, Hasbro owns the G.I. Joe brand, which has expanded into a line of action movies, TV shows, and video games. The National Toy Hall of Fame inducted G.I. Joe in 2004. The Pop Culture Hall of Fame inducted it in 2017.
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Hasbro is located in Rhode Island, and it makes a lot of its toys in American plants, including G.I. Joe action figures. It also has plants in Hong Kong and Taiwan. China is apparently a purchaser of G.I. Joe action figures.
70. Monopoly
Original Headquarters: Pawtucket, RI
Purchased By: Hasbro
Country: Canada, China, Taiwan
Another Hasbro product is the famous board game, Monopoly. Hasbro sold the factory that makes the game to a Belgium card-maker called Cartamundi. Cartamundi still employs the same workers. Though Monopoly was made in America, it has plants in China and India.
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Hasbro has looked to cut its manufacturing in China down to 50%. It is looking to factory locations in India as a source of cheap labor. According to the toymaker, it expects to have the production cut to half by the end of 2020. Currently, it has most of its plants in the Guangdong Province of China.
71. American Eagle Outfitters
Original Headquarters: Pittsburgh, PA
Purchased By: Retail Ventures, Inc.
Made in: China
American Eagle is a retailer that is targeted towards teenagers and young adults, and, despite the “American” in its name, its clothes are mostly foreign-made. China, Vietnam, and India are its choices of manufacturing locations, as those three countries have been cotton manufacturing hubs since the Industrial Revolution.
American Eagle Outfitters @SupplyChainDive / Twitter.com
American Eagle has a wide reach, too. It has stores in the U.S. (pretty much every mall) Mexico, Canada, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and China. All in all, as of 2017, American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. has more than one thousand stores, including its Aerie spinoff, which sells basics and underwear.
72. American Tourister
Original Headquarters: Providence, RI
Purchased By: Samsonite
Country: China
American Tourister is a luggage brand that is owned by Samsonite. It was founded nearly a century ago, but, after being bought by the larger company, it abides by their manufacturing plans. Samsonite is made in China by contracted manufacturers. American Tourister is made in China as well, in addition to assembly plants in Nashik, India, and Hungary.
American Tourister @ManagerDeal / Twitter.com
Samsonite chose to move its manufacturing out-of-country because it was facing a labor shortage in America. Samsonite is now owned by Astrum International, which is based in the Middle East. Still, despite being made out of the States, American Tourister has its headquarters right in Rhode Island, where it was founded.
73. Campbell’s Soup
Original Headquarters: Camden, NJ
Purchased By: N/A
Country: China
Campbell’s Soup has factories all over the world, though it has its headquarters in New Jersey. Campbell’s Soup Company has factories in China, Canada, America, and a dozen other countries. Campbell’s also owns popular brands of snack food, including Snyder-Lance, Pepperidge Farm, Late July Snacks, Baptista’s Bakery, Arnott’s Biscuits, and Bolthouse Farms.
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The company sells its soup all over the world, and its Chinese customers consume 355 billion servings of soup per year, according to company data. You might think that Chicken Noodle is the company’s most popular flavor; but, worldwide, its Mexican-Style Chicken Tortilla is its best-selling item.
74. American Standard
Original Headquarters: Piscataway, NJ
Purchased By: Samsonite
Country: China
The majority of American Standard products are made in Mexico, though a handful are made in Asia—specifically, China. American Standard faucets are made from Chinese-made parts, and assembly is done in Mexico. American Standard is owned by American Standard Brands, which sells brand-names such as Crane, Fiat, Showerite, Sanymetal, and more.
American Standard @chrismanack / Twitter.com
The company is based in New Jersey, and it was founded in 2008, making it one of the newer companies on this list. American Standard as a subsidiary has been around a little longer than its parent company, having been founded in the late sixties in Piscataway, New Jersey.
75. Estee Lauder
Original Headquarters: New York, NY
Purchased By: N/A
Country: China
Estee Lauder was founded in New York City in 1946 by Estee Lauder and her husband, Joseph. It is still headquartered in the General Motors Building, and the high-end cosmetics brand is worth around $11.6 billion in assets and $4.4 billion in equity. The company is a pioneer in the “prestige cosmetics” brand.
Estee Lauder @eramanmalaysia / Twitter.com
Estee Lauder has a wide international reach. In China, it operates research and development facilities. In terms of making its products, it has factories in the UK, US, Canada, Switzerland, and Belgium. Estee Lauder, the founder, was, at one point, the wealthiest self-made woman in the world.
76. J.M. Smucker Company
Original Headquarters: Orrville, OH
Purchased By: N/A
Country: China
J.M. Smucker Company is one of the most well-recognized food brands in America, particularly when it comes to its jelly. Smuckers, as it’s known in short-hand, announced back in 2012 that it had acquired a minority interest (non-controlling) in the Chinese brand Seamild Tech Development Company.
J.M. Smucker Company @lh3com / Twitter.com
In addition to making some of its products in China, Smuckers also has a strong connection to Canadian manufacturing. However, it no longer has a plant in Quebec. It shut down that plant in 2013 in order to consolidate more of its business in America. It is still headquartered where it was founded—Orrville, Ohio.
77. Tommy Hilfiger
Original Headquarters: New York, NY
Purchased By: PVH Corp.
Country: The Netherlands
Tommy Hilfiger is a world renowned brand of men’s and women’s clothing, with a primarily sporty style. While now the company is worth billions of dollars, it all began as a single shop opened up by the eponymous designer, who saved up $150 to open up the shop in upstate New York.
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Since its inception in the 1980s, it has grown into a massive global company, selling their clothes, accessories, and home goods in over 2,000 department stores worldwide. In 2010, the company was bought by PVH Corp., and Daniel Grieder was given the CEO position, while Tommy Hilfiger himself remains the lead designer.
78. Arrow Shirts
Original Headquarters: Leominster, Massachusetts
Purchased By: PVC
Country: Multinational
Arrow Shirts is a well-known apparel brand that has expanded from a small Massachusetts operation into a multinational company, licensing countries in Europe and Asia to sell its brand-name shirts. Arrow is especially popular in India, and the extra revenue has helped the business grow immensely in a short period of time.
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Arrow is owned by Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation. Though you might not know PVH Corp., you’ll definitely recognize the brand names it owns, such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, IZD, True & Co., Olga, Geoffrey Beene, and Van Heusen. PVH has thousands of employees and factories across the world.
79. Schwinn
Original Headquarters: Vancouver, Washington
Purchased By: Huffy
Country: China (Made In)
Schwinn is a name that has been associated with American bikes forever, but the company itself has become less American after all. Dorel Industries, a Canadian company, bought Pacific Cycle, a company that makes Schwinn bikes. The sale took place in 2004. Now, Schwinn is owned by Huffy.
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Huffy bought the name for $60 million, which stunned the Internet, as Active.com called Schwinn one of the “greatest names” in the history of “American business.” Huffy makes the majority of its bikes in China, and it stopped making bikes in the USA until the mid-1990s, when financial struggles forced it overseas.
80. Rawlings
Original Headquarters: Town and Country, Missouri
Purchased By: Seidler Equity Partners
Country: China (Made In)
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Rawlings has become a name synonymous with American sports. It is currently owned by the MLB and Seidler Equity Partners. Rawlings is one of the most-chosen gloves of MLB players, and it’s hard to imagine baseball without it.
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The company might be synonymous with US sports, but it makes a lot of its products overseas. It has a factory located in China. Rawlings’ MLB baseballs are made in America, but its Minor League baseballs are made in China, according to a stamp on each of them. As ProPublica put it, “Everything you need to play baseball is made in China.”
81. Etch A Sketch
Original Headquarters: Bryan, Ohio
Purchased By: Spin Master
Country: Canada
A French inventor named Andre Cassagnes invented the Etch a Sketch, which is one of the most popular toys in American history. The mechanical drawing toy was created in 1955, and it was sold by Ohio Art starting in 1960.
Etch A Sketch @PrincessEtch / Twitter.com
For years, Ohio Art was the primary seller. Then, the Bryan, Ohio company had a “surprise shakeup.” It sold Etch A Sketch to Spin Master, a Canadian company, in 2016. Now, Spin Master will own this successful product, which, according to CNBC, has sold 100 million Etch A Sketches since Ohio Art introduced it to the market over seventy years ago.
82. Medtronic
Original Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Purchased By: Cardinal Health
Country: Ireland
Medtronic is a medical device company that is best known for making industry-changing cardiac devices, including miniature- and battery-powered pacemakers. Medtronic sells insulin pumps and diabetes therapies as well. The company has headquarters in Fridley, Minnesota, the same state in which it was founded in 1949.
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However, it is an Irish company, with its main headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. The company sells medical devices all around the world, and it owns subsidiaries like Mazor Robotics. The conglomerate recently got a shakeup in its leadership. Geoffrey S. Martha was appointed CEO in 2020, establishing himself as the leader of the $30 billion brand.
83. McDermott
Original Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Purchased By: Merged to Form McDermott International
Country: Panama
McDermott International was founded ninety-eight years ago in Houston, Texas. The oil and gas company was family-owned for decades, and it became one of Houston’s best-known businesses. The company boasts assets near $10 billion, with yearly revenue of over $6.7 billion.
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Starting a couple of decades ago, McDermott has been headquartered in Panama. The engineering, construction, and procurement company also does business internationally. It has operations in the Middle East, Caspian Sea, Pacific Rim, Central America, and more. Though it’s domiciled in sunny Panama, the oil and gas conglomerate is actually headquartered in Houston, Texas Energy Corridor, a business district in the bustling metropolitan area.
84. Seagate
Original Headquarters: Fremont, California
Purchased By: Veritas Software
Country: Ireland
Seagate Technology is a data storage company that was founded by a team of tech entrepreneurs in 1979. They founded their Internet business near when the Internet was invented, so Seagate has had a huge edge in the industry, with $10.51 billion of revenue each year.
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The company, which was originally named Shugart Technology, has been incorporated in Dublin since 2010. It has its operational headquarters in Fremont, a city in California, but it is more tax-advantageous for the company to have its incorporation in Ireland. One year after moving its incorporation to Ireland, Seagate bought Samsung’s HDD business.
85. Carrier
Original Headquarters: Newark, New Jersey
Purchased By: United Technologies Corp.
Country: Multinational
Carrier Global was founded in Newark, New Jersey. The company then moved its headquarters to sunny Palm Beach, Florida. It was originally founded in 1915 as an HVAC manufacturer and distributor, and it has stuck to its roots, but it has also expanded to include foodservice equipment and commercial refrigeration.
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Carrier has expanded to truly fulfill the “Global” part of its name, breaking ground in many new countries, including, in 2017, a new facility in Shanghai’s Baoshan Industrial Zone. Though Carrier was briefly purchased by United in 1979, it once again became an independent company when it was spun off by United.
86. Actavis/Allergan
Original Headquarters: Troy Hills, New Jersey
Purchased By: Teva Pharmaceuticals
Country: Israel
Allergen is a pharmaceutical company that, most notably, makes Botox (in addition to other medical therapies and products). Actavis bought Allergan in 2015, and then, just one year later, the company sold Allergan, its “generic business” to Teva. Teva Pharmaceuticals is an Israeli company headquartered in Tel Aviv.
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Though Actavis would remain owned by Israel, Allergan was sold to AbbVie Inc. Actavis is doing well since its sale to Teva. The company is now a $23 billion company, with forty manufacturing facilities. Actavis has a commercial reach of 100 countries, making it one of the most recognizable brand names in the world.
87. Brach’s
Original Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Purchased By: Barry Callebaut
Country: Switzerland
Anyone with a sweet tooth knows about Brach’s. The candy company is headquartered in Illinois, and it makes hundreds of different candies and confections. The company has been through a lot of mergers as well, since its founding in 1904 by Emil Brach.
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It was sold to Bertram Johnson in 1980, and then it was sold to Ferrara, with which it merged to become the Ferrara Candy Company. Brach’s is now owned by a Switzerland company called Barry Callebaut. Callebaut was in charge of deciding to move the candy company’s original headquarters down to Dallas, Texas in 2004.
88. Morgan Stanley
Original Headquarters: New York City, New York
Purchased By: MUFG Bank
Country: Japan
In 2008, MUFG, a Japanese bank, announced that it was about to take a big bet on Morgan Stanley. Mitsubishi UFG spent $3 billion on 9.9% of Morgan Stanley’s common stock, which cost around $25.25 per share. Two years later, the bank, which has become a ubiquitous presence in America, would deepen its ties to MUFG.
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Morgan Stanley and MUFG formed two different joint venture brokerages, one of which was Morgan Stanley Securities, of which MUFG owned the majority. The other was Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, which Morgan Stanley has since kept control of. The capital market company might be American-founded, but it has expanded to have deep ties with Japanese business owners.
89. Lowe’s
Original Headquarters: North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Multinational (Made In)
Lowe’s is an American retailer that has locations in pretty much every major American city. It is the second-largest hardware chain in the country (Home Depot surpassed it a few years ago), and it started as merely a dry goods store. Over time, it has expanded to become a billion-dollar brand.
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And, like many billion-dollar brands, Lowe’s outsources its manufacturing. The company has 106 suppliers, most of whom are located in America. However, a sizable minority are located in Canada, China, South Korea, and Taiwan. Each of Lowe’s stores stock 40,000 products at a time (with hundreds of thousands located in warehouses), so it only makes sense that it would have had to expand its manufacturing.
90. PG&E
Original Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: America
The Pacific Gas & Electric Company is located in San Francisco, California, and it provides gas and energy to 5.2 million households. The northern two-thirds of California, from Santa Barbara to Bakersfield, rely on PG&E for their electricity. The company generates half of its gas from greenhouse-gas-free resources, as a bonus.
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The only foreign ties PG&E has are its contracts with China Mobile International Infrastructure. The Pacific Gas Company recently went through financial hardship when it declared bankruptcy. In July of 2020, it emerged from the restructuring process pretty much unscathed, leaving Chapter 11 and the courts behind.
91. Mondelez International
Original Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Purchased By: Kraft Foods
Country: Canada
Mondelez International, Inc. is one of the largest snack companies in the world, and it brings in nearly $26 billion in revenue a year. Mondelez has operations in 160 countries, and its subsidiaries include familiar names like Cadbury, Nabisco, Freia, and more. The Chicago-headquartered company has manufacturing plants all around the world.
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As Mondelez put it, it has invested “hundreds of millions” of dollars in its “worldwide production facilities.” Though the company might have started small, as National Dairy Products Corporation, it has continued to climb the ladder to become the huge, worldwide, multinational conglomerate it is today.
92. Fender Stratocaster
Original Headquarters: Corona, California
Purchased By: Servco Pacific
Country: China (Made In)
Fender Stratocaster is a guitar brand that musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley loved. Having a Stratocaster is a pricey symbol of dedication to music, and the Player Stratocaster is the entry-level model. Fender’s Player is under $700, while higher-priced Fenders, like the America Ultra HSS and the Acoustasonic, have higher price tags.
Fender Stratocaster ©RobinStrower / Shutterstock.com
New Player models are made in China, and there are a range of YouTube videos showing people testing their Chinese-made Players against American ones (we’ll let you be the judge of which is better). Fender pulling production from American factories is nothing new—it did the same thing in the 1980s.
93. Under Armour
Original Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Asia (Made In)
Despite the spelling of “Armour,” Under Armour bills itself as an American company. Founded by Kevin Plank in 1996, Under Armour has grown to be one of the top producers of American sportswear and footwear. The company is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland (though it was founded in Washington D.C.).
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Under Armour might be headquartered here, but it makes the majority of their products overseas. Third-party manufacturers make almost all of its products. 55% of Under Armour products are made in Vietnam, Malaysia, Jordan, and China. Meanwhile, 70% of sales revenue is generated right in North America (primarily the U.S. and Canada).
94. Trump Collection
Original Headquarters: New York City, New York
Purchased By: The Trump Organization
Country: China (Made In)
The Trump Signature Collection is a menswear line from Donald Trump, owned by his parent corporation, The Trump Organization. The line is almost all made in China, though it seems like it would be an American company. Though owned by TTO, its manufacturing is decidedly not American.
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The suits from The Trump Collection are either marked “imported,” or they’re stamped that they were made in Bangladesh or China. The line of clothing that Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, owns, is also imported. Over 800 of her shoes, purses, scarves, and dresses are marked as “imported” on the tags. Moral of the story: always check the labels.
95. Batesville Casket Company
Original Headquarters: Batesville, Indiana
Purchased By: Hillenbrand, Inc.
Country: Mexico (Made In)
Batesville Casket Company turned the funeral business commercial. The company was founded in 1884, and it has remained headquartered in Batesville, Indiana ever since. It has grown to 3,460 employees, the majority of whom work at BCC’s factories.
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Three of Batesville’s factories are located in America, including one in Batesville, Indiana, one in Manchester, Tennessee, and a third in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Batesville has expanded to produce some of its caskets in Chihuahua, Mexico. Part of the reason for the foreign expansion is likely due to its competitors, which often sell cheaper caskets that have a lower price point because they were made overseas.
96. AT&T
Original Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Asia (Made In)
AT&T’s foreign connections come by way of their production locations. Phones and other technologies made by the global company are often produced in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Thailand. Phones made at these plants have “Custom Made” stamps on them indicating which foreign factory they were produced in.
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AT&T makes the majority of its revenue from telecom, media, and tech services. Its communications segment is by far its biggest earner, and it has since expanded even more into wireless video. Whether AT&T’s pursuit of wireless video as a revenue-grower will result in more Asian-made products is, for now, still unclear.
97. Microsoft
Original Headquarters: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Asia (Made In)
When people are asked to name America’s most iconic companies, there’s a strong chance that Microsoft comes up at least in their top ten. Founded in Albuquerque, the company has gone on to be one of the world leaders in technology and innovation.
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Microsoft’s products were made in China for a while until 2020 when the company rapidly began shifting its products away from Chinese plants. Google followed suit, and the two tech giants have been quickly moving all of their foreign manufacturing to Thailand and Vietnam. As one tech publication put it, the two could “not get out of China quick enough.”
98. Rexnord
Original Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Purchased By: RBS Global Inc.
Country: America
Founded in 1891, Rexnord is one of America’s oldest companies. The Milwaukee-based business sells pretty much everything you need to keep a machine running, including power transmission gear drives, couplings, bearings, industrial chains, brakes, and more.
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Like many of the businesses on this list, Rexnord has a lot of locations and distributors in other countries, including China. It also has distributors in Canada, Mexico, Australia, India, Singapore, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Dubai, South Africa, and more. The company brings in $1.09 billion in sales each year, boasting a net profit of nearly $70 million as of 2016.
99. QVC
Original Headquarters: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Purchased By: Qurate Retail Group
Country: China (Made In)
QVC is worth over $8 billion, and it broadcasts its wares into more than 350 million homes. The shopping channel sells pretty much everything you can think of, and it has made more than a few people into multimillionaires. It’s not super easy to get your product on QVC but, if you do, you can end up with a pretty lucrative profit.
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A large number of QVC’s products are made in China. Message boards in the QVC Community often share information on which vendors make their goods in China versus which don’t. As one person said, it’s hard to narrow down American-made items from the company.
100. University of California
Original Headquarters: Oakland, California
Purchased By: N/A
Country: Multinational
The University of California has ten campuses throughout the sunny state, and it boasts over a quarter-million students. The academic staff numbers 22,700, while the administrative staff numbers 154,900. UC has six “Public Ivies.” As of the summer of 2020, UC’s assets are in the $140 billion range. The university has over 150 academic disciplines from which to choose.
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UC’s largest donors sometimes come from foreign countries, which is permitted. Though UC isn’t a company the way the other businesses on this list are, the university, along with many other universities throughout America, is the recipient of foreign donations.
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