{"id":14755,"date":"2010-03-17T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14755"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:54:52","slug":"burton-moves-all-production-offshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14755","title":{"rendered":"Burton Moves All Production Offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bilde-15.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bilde-15.jpeg','popup','width=580,height=422,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bilde-15-tm.jpg\" height=\"145\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde-15\" \/><\/a>In June 2010 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Snowboards<\/a><\/strong> will close their South Burlington, Vermont production facilities and move all manufacturing to China and Austria slicing off 43 jobs in the process according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20100317\/NEWS01\/100316013\" target=\"_blank\">Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe environment here is not very manufacturing-friendly&#8230; a board costs more to make than you than you sell it for,\u201d <strong>Burton<\/strong> CEO <strong>Laurent Potdevin<\/strong> said Tuesday. Burton will keep its global headquarters in Burlington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes. It is much cheaper to make things in China. We&#8217;re surprised it lasted as long as it did. Guess from now on they&#8217;ll have to do what Apple does: Designed in Vermont, made where ever is cheapest. For the rest of the sad, sad story click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20100317\/NEWS01\/100316013\" target=\"_blank\">Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2010 Burton Snowboards will close their South Burlington, Vermont production facilities and move all manufacturing to China and Austria slicing off 43 jobs in the process according to a story in the Burlington Free Press. \u201cThe environment here is not very manufacturing-friendly&#8230; a board costs more to make than you than you sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14757,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions\/14757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}