Heinz, more than 57 varities of outsourcing factories worldwide

Heinz.Com ^ | 3-13-04 | Heinz Co

[Cronos]

I hate to bring up this point, but most of these factories will be to make products to sell IN THE NATIVE COUNTRIES. How many of these are used to manufacture stuff that is exported to the US. Not many I think

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

Of course most of these factories make products to sell in the native countries.

However, the Heinz Company has several factories in countries that use slave laborers and children laborers for pennies a day while adding millions of $$$ to the Heinz Co profits.

[kcvl]

The point is NOT that Heinz produces overseas, it IS the fact that Kerry COMPLAINS about OTHERS, who do THE SAME as Heinz and he calls THEM Benedict Arnolds.

[Doe Eyes]

Boston Market is owned by McDonalds.

[Puzzleman]

In Plato’s Republic, he asks whether a person would act in a moral way if he were invisible. I believe that the answer depends on whether the person is religious or not. Religious people would continue to act morally because they would not be invisible from God. Secular people would feel free of all constraint and might not be moral.

The Democrats are secular and have been made invisible to the voters by the press. That is what allows Kerry to make these outrageous statements such as the one last month, “When I am president, and with your help, we’re going to repeal every benefit, every loophole, every reward that entices any Benedict Arnold company or CEO to take the money and the jobs overseas and stick the American people with the bill.” He knows that the mainstream press will not mention that Kerry is heavily invested in companies that send jobs overseas and that employees at 25 companies that outsource jobs have contributed more than $370,000 to Kerry’s campaign.

This is the link

[Grampa Dave]

I believe that the Boston Market Products for sell in Grocery stores is owned by Heinz.

[Grampa Dave]

What a great thread article. Thank you. I have been asking this question for a few weeks.

"How many CEOs of companies who send jobs overseas are Rat controlled with Rat CEO's who donate to the DNC and now to Kerry?"

I have the feeling that this list is just scraping a little frost off the tip of the iceberg:

‘Benedict Arnold’ CEOs fund Kerry; Front-runner has accepted $370,000 this election cycle
The Hill ^ | 3/3/04 | Sam Dealey


Posted on 03/02/2004 6:46:31 PM PST by JeanS


Although Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry often rails on the campaign trail against U.S. companies that relocate jobs abroad, seeking lower tax and wage rates, federal records show that the Massachusetts senator is heavily invested in such companies and has recently received substantial support from some of their top executives.

Campaign finance reports reviewed by The Hill reveal that employees at 25 companies identified by CNN’s Lou Dobbs as “either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers,” have contributed more than $370,000 to Kerry’s presidential campaign.

On receiving an endorsement from the AFL-CIO last month, Kerry said: “When I am president, and with your help, we’re going to repeal every benefit, every loophole, every reward that entices any Benedict Arnold company or CEO to take the money and the jobs overseas and stick the American people with the bill.”

The Kerry campaign did not return phone calls seeking comment on Kerry’s investments and his receipt of funds from “Benedict Arnold” companies. But official records show the following pattern involving firms that outsource jobs:

• Citigroup executives have contributed $68,250 to Kerry’s presidential bid. There was a maximum contribution from the company’s chairman and CEO, Charles O. Prince.

• Morgan Stanley executives have contributed $38,000 to the campaign, including a maximum donation by Richard B. Fisher, chairman emeritus.

• AOL Time Warner executives donated $29,750 to Kerry, with maximum contributions from James V. Kimsey, AOL co-founder and chairman emeritus, and Kathryn Bushkin, president of the AOL Time Warner Foundation and a senior vice president of the company. AOL Time Warner ranks as the third largest donor to Kerry’s political career.

• Goldman Sachs executives have contributed $50,300 to the candidate’s presidential campaign, including a maximum contribution from Vice Chairman Robert S. Kaplan. The investment firm is Kerry’s ninth largest all-time donor base.
Likewise, Kerry’s most recent Senate financial disclosure shows that he and his wife are heavily invested in companies that outsource jobs.

Direct investments and trusts controlled by Kerry list assets of $124,026 to $636,000 in such companies. Trusts held by Teresa Heinz Kerry hold at least $8.5 million in outsourcing companies. Seven of those holdings — with AIG, Anheuser-Busch, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Pfizer and Procter & Gamble — were valued at greater than $1 million.

Only Teresa Heinz Kerry’s investments produced income last year. Dividends and capital gains from those holdings or transactions brought in between $1.07 million and $9.47 million.

Last week, The Washington Post reported that Kerry received significant donations and fundraising assistance from executives at companies that have reorganized in offshore tax-havens. While no physical displacements directly result from such a move, it can drastically reduce a company’s tax burden.

Executives and employees at these companies have contributed more than $140,000 to Kerry’s campaign, the paper noted. Kerry has also benefited from the fundraising prowess of two investment executives who facilitate offshore corporate reorganizations. Those individuals have raised more than $400,000 for the presidential campaign, the paper reported.

The comments come at a time when tensions over domestic jobs and outsourcing are running high.

On Feb. 19, N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, triggered an outcry when he said offshoring service-sector jobs is “the latest manifestation of the gains from trade that economists have talked about … and that’s a good thing.”

Under criticism from Kerry and several other Democratic and Republican politicians, Mankiw conceded his remarks were “injudiciously worded.”

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan defended Mankiw but said there is “a considerable gulf” in understanding between economists and at-risk employees.

“Our economy is best served by full and vigorous engagement in the global economy,” Greenspan said. “The protectionist cures being advanced to address these hardships will make matters worse than better.”

Analysis conducted by Forrester Research projects that 3.3 million U.S. jobs will have left the country by 2015.


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[international american]

Correct on all counts. Heinz overseas operations are probably bigger than its american ones.

[Lady Jag]

like Kerry. I know 'RATs don't have any capability of reasoning, but are they even human? I see nothing but vitriol, hate, and lies in their campaign.

Would that you could share your sight with lowly Dimocrat (sic) voters but, alas, they are blinder than blind.

[oceanperch]

Hey I was just about to post this on another thread.

The only thing I was going to defend was Banana Ketchup from PI it was a staple in our home growing up but I never remembered a Heinz Label on it.

Here's what I have but it looks alot like what you posted.
Kerry's wife  

----- Original Message ----- Subject: John Kerry's wife  

Kerry's Wife a 'Benedict Arnold CEO'?

One of Sen. John Kerry's favorite stump speech tag lines these days is a blast at "Benedict Arnold CEOs [who] send American jobs overseas." But he never gets around to mentioning his wife's Heinz Foods empire, which seems to be leading the pack in exporting jobs from America into the Third World.

Reporting for Tech Central Station, James Glassman revealed Wednesday, "The Kerry family business, H.J. Heinz Co. of Pittsburgh, operates 22 factories in the United States and 57 in foreign countries."

A quick check of the Heinz corporate Web site seems to confirm the fact that the Democratic presidential front-runner is married to one of America's worst corporate traitors, at least according to the way he defines the term.

Under World Locations, Mrs. Heinz Kerry's webmaster lists Heinz plants throughout the Third World, including the Middle East, Africa, Southern Africa, the Pacific Rim and Asia.

Mrs. Heinz Kerry's company seems to particularly favor the employee pool in Asia, where workers come dirt cheap and slave labor is not unknown.

Here are just a few of the locations where Sen. Kerry's corporate bucaneer missus has her Third World workers toiling overtime to keep the prospective first couple living in style:

HEINZ SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. Established 2001 Republic of Singapore
Factory: Singapore Major Product Lines: chili sauces/ketchup/preserved beans/soy sauces. Brand Names and Trademarks: SinSin.

HEINZ-UFE LTD. Established 1984 Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Factory: Guangzhou Major Product Lines: cereals for infants. Brand Name and Trademark: Heinz.

HEINZ COSCO Established 1999 Qingdao, People's Republic of China
Factory: Qingdao Major Product Lines: infant foods/ketchup/mayonnaise/puree. Brand Name and Trademark: Heinz.

HEINZ WIN CHANCE LTD. Established 1987 Bangkok, Thailand
Factory: Bangplee Major Product Lines: chili sauce/ketchup/oyster sauce. Brand Name and Trademark: Heinz.

HEINZ INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Acquired 1994 Mumbai, India
Factory: Aligarh/Bangalore Major Product Lines: glucose powders/infant feeding products/ketchup/medicated powders/milk-based beverages. Brand Names and Trademarks: Complan/Farex/Glucon-D/ Heinz/Nycil/Sampriti.

PT HEINZ ABC INDONESIA Established 1999 Jakarta, Indonesia
Factories: Daan Mogot, Jakarta; Karawang Timur; Pasuruan Major Product Lines: chili sauce/fruit drink concentrates/ ketchup/soy sauces. Brand Name and Trademark: ABC.

PT HEINZ SUPRAMA Acquired 1997 Surabaya, Indonesia
Factory: Sidoarjo Major Product Lines: noodles/noodle snacks.
Brand Names and Trademarks: Burung Dara/Heinz.

HEINZ UFC PHILIPPINES Established 2000 Manila, the Philippines
Factories: Cabuyao Laguna; Davao City Major Product Lines: banana ketchup/hot sauce/sweet chili sauce/tomato ketchup.
Brand Names and Trademarks: Jufran/Mafran/Papa/UFC. HEINZ HONG KONG LIMITED Established 2000 Wanchai, Hong Kon

[oceanperch]

No problem boycotting can't eat crap with so much perservatives.

I look at the stuff on shelves though and boy the prices for some of this stuff is outrageous.

Most like the sauces for marinading can be made very easy from scratch at home and it tastes sooo much better home made.

The baby food one makes me cringe too. Who would trust baby food contents and care in production from a third world.

[hobson]

I'll do that. I'm working on it now.

[Grampa Dave]

You have posted some good health reason to boycott so many of the Heinz Products.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.bostonmarketcatering.com/newsroom/index.jsp?page=milestones

April 1999 The H.J. Heinz Company unveils Boston Market Home Style Meals, a line of premium frozen meals sold in grocery stores across the country.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.heinz.com/jsp/world.jsp#2

When you log on the heinz site, scroll down the products listed. Boston Market frozen products sold in grocery stores is listed and pictured.

[Liz]

Kerry advisory ping.

[Doe Eyes]

http://www.bostonmarket.com/newsroom/index.jsp?page=milestones

"Boston Market Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of McDonald's Corporation. We operate approximately 630 company-owned restaurants nationwide in 28 states."

The restaurants shouldn't be included in any boycotts.

[Let's Roll]

Exactly - and apparently another point is some posters not only don't know the issue - but haven't read much of the thread either.

[Fiddlstix]

[ARA]

You wrote what I was going to write...

Heinz is a multi-national corporation that has had foreign outposts since its virtual inception... It has nothing to do with outsourcing...