Bath and Body Works is pumping up manufacturing here in these United States of America.

I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, I read a story that just made me happy today. I believe this was in the Wall Street Journal talking about how Bath and Body Works used to manufacture their products

and now manufactures their products. And so we're going to take an example. Let's talk

about something that comes in a bottle with a pump on top of it and some sort of fluid

or lotion in the bottle. Previously, the bottle was made in Canada. The pump was made in China, 12,000 miles away.

The fluid that went in it, I think, was made in Virginia. And I forget where the label was made.

In any case, all over the world, these things had to come together in one place.

And from the moment that they, in effect, ordered a bottle of this stuff, it was about five months before they could actually put it into the hands of a customer.

Well, some years ago, back starting in 2008, they started basically onshoreing this entire

process and not only onshore it, but consolidating it in a suburb outside of Columbus, Ohio,

called New Albany.

And they have an area there in New Albany where they have persuaded their best suppliers from the old

days to invest in that area to start manufacturing bottles and pumps and labels and the goop

that goes in the bottle. All of that there in New Albany just down the street from the

Bath and Body Works warehouse and headquarters

where the distribution goes out from.

And Stephen Green, what fascinated me with this was the tenacity of Bath and Body Works basically saying,

look, I mean, we have no comprehension of this as men probably, but there are

like thousands of new bath products every year that are constantly developing them.

And what's really cool about this isn't so much that they've increased, you know,

U.S. production of stuff, although that's really cool.

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