Made in America / Washington

Here’s a quick list derived from the “Made in America” series by ABC World News.  This year Diane Sawyer and her team encouraged viewers to buy American.  Stores are awash in imported goods.  If construction workers increased their use of American manufactured tools and supplies, ABC said, and if shoppers bought a few more American-made Christmas gifts*, then U.S. businesses and manufacturers would be able to create hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of new jobs.

ABC World News compiled a list of U.S. manufacturers to help shoppers find American-made goods.  You’ll find the long (and still-growing) list on its site.  We like the “buy American” concept and admire a “buy local” idea, too.  With that in mind we’d like to tout the ABC list and share the Washington portion of it here.

[BTW: The Washington list includes Glassybaby, a Seattle company whose founder Lee Rhodes was just named Entrepreneur of 2011!]

NOTE: There are certainly other manufacturers in the state; WA-List published an even longer list of Washington companies in July (that included businesses in the agriculture, retail and service sectors), but that list was necessarily incomplete, too.

WASHINGTON MANUFACTURERS IN ABC WORLD NEWS’ MADE IN AMERICA SERIES

SOURCE: ABC World News

*I would add that a one-time effort would not be enough, but a sustained habit of buying American-made household goods throughout the year might do it.

December 21st, 2011