Petersburg production to Mexico, the Florida factory manager was powerless to stop him.
Often the factory manager serves as the party branch leader.
He once sacked a factory manager on the spot after the man made the mistake of showing off an expensive cigarette lighter, which he obviously couldn't have afforded on his salary.
"If people bring things into China to get them manufactured here, I think keeping that technology secret, as it were, will be very, very difficult, " says Graham Hughes, a South African factory manager based near Beijing.
Chinese workers, of whom many are needed to sustain a building frenzy in the capital Ulaanbaatar and the mines, live segregated lives or, says one ethnic-Chinese factory manager, are routinely beaten up on the streets, with no hope of recourse if they go to the police.
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Down the road, at a date-packing factory, the manager proudly recalls the days when he supervised exports all over the world.
The boys lived for a while in a surfboard factory run by their manager.
Anxious to extol the virtues of his latest starter design, the general manager of our factory that produced starters lobbied me for a separate block of time to discuss his new design with the purchasing manager of one of our largest diesel engine customers who happened to be attending our quarterly meeting.
But a manager from the factory assured them there was no problem, so they went inside, he said.
The manager of one factory will arrange bulk shipment at special prices as far as Mexico for a cut.
At every Cheesecake Factory restaurant, a kitchen manager is stationed at the counter where the food comes off the line, and he rates the food on a scale of one to ten.
"Some of these moulds actually pre-date the factory itself, " said project manager Harry Wardill.
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Japanese firms have to be in China, says Akira Kitaura, the Japanese manager of the clothing factory in Hefei.
Then again, not every middle manager working at the widget factory lives in Manhattan.
The son of a Buffalo factory owner and a museum-store manager, Godin says he started reading business books at age 12.
"We thought he was out of his mind, " says William Tursky, a general manager at an Illinois Tool Works factory outside of Chicago that turns out 6 million screws a day.
Since then the north-east has seen strikes most shockingly, in July 2009, a protest involving thousands of workers at a steel plant in Tonghua, in Jilin province, who beat to death a manager because of moves to privatise the factory.
For now the 31-year-old plant manager is content to lord over a factory floor of Vermeer Manufacturing Co. in Pella, Iowa, pointing to a directional drill assembly line that used to be cluttered with 20 days' worth of parts inventory.
Guiding a reporter through the crowded plant, the former manager of an IBM circuit-board factory points to places where Dell can shave off a few seconds of assembly time or move completed products out the door a couple of minutes faster.
Mr Sha, the company's best manager, who ran a rubber-parts factory in the mountains of Anhui province in central China, secretly set up a rival plant down the valley which he financed by siphoning money from the Asimco joint venture.
In the Gazipur district north of Dhaka, Garments Export Village Ltd. was surprised to find its name on Wal-Mart's list and feared it would hurt the company's reputation, said Emrul Kayes Sujan, manager of human resources and compliance for Amtranet Group, the factory owner.
It irked Galli that a Rubbermaid purchasing manager had a cozy friendship with a supplier of manufacturing tools for its factory in Wooster.
It irked Galli that a Rubbermaid purchasing manager had a cozy friendship with a supplier of manufacturing tools for its factory in Wooster, Ohio.
"Every time a different brand's audit team goes into a factory, the factory has to move the fire extinguishers to be in compliance, " said Sandra Cho, corporate responsibility manager for Columbia Sportswear, which manufactures some clothing in Bangladesh.
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