Posted on 06/10/2020 12:29:45 PM PDT by Twotone
A Minneapolis manufacturing company whose plant was set on fire by rioters plans to leave the city, saying that city officials afforded them no assistance in handling the destruction.
“They don’t care about my business,” 7-Sigma Inc.’s president and owner, Kris Wyrobek, told The Star Tribune about Minneapolis public officials. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.”
The 7-Sigma plant in south Minneapolis, which the company has maintained since 1987, shut down several hours early around 7 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. as a precautionary measure on the first night of rioting. The company manufactures several products, including rollers for high-speed printing presses and medical training mannequins.
When a fire broke out in an apartment complex under construction that was next door to the manufacturing facility, “the fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do anything,” Wyrobek said. The apartment complex was leveled by the fire, and several stores across the street including a Target store were looted during the first night of riots.
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Not surprised.
If the “My Pillow” guy leaves Minnesota too, the state is done.
Well done, rioters. Got what you wanted...fewer jobs for black Americans.
Good. Let’s see what happens to home prices as people vacate and nobody wants to or are able to move there. I hope that city and state goes through hell and back. The people that voted for this sh&& storm deserve a sh&& storm. Otherwise, move.
Leftists have to learn businesses are not charity groups based on feelings. Although they get taught that by Nike and Starbucks.
Why rebuild in a Dem urban hellhole and lose the business again after the next childish hurt (”gay schoolteacher murdered” “Three schools and 12 stores burned to the ground in fury by rioters.”) (”Blacks says racism to blame for company not adding 50% BLM members to board of directors” “Peaceful protests turn deadly as more buildings on fire.”)
Not worth it.
Minneapolis 2022 = Detroit 2012
You will get half of your wish. That city is definitely going to hell. It's already there.
But it ain't coming back.
Good
That’s actually the point. Democrats actually *want* a welfare state where the jobless have to keep voting for them as a permanent captive voter base, keeping them in power forever. They want everyone dependent on the government, with them in control.
Watch what 3M and Honeywell do.
I think all the computer companies have left and these two are the only big tech remaining.
Detroit
https://youtu.be/2l_YE3vrwWo
Some jerk on a different site said this business owner was being selfish and only thinking of himself. Some people have no concept of what a business is and how it operates. I guess the guy is supposed to run a business even if he is losing money or just waiting for the next riot.
People and businesses will smartly leave.
Sales and property tax revenues go way down.
More people leave when they have no security.
Then it becomes Detroit.
“If the ‘My Pillow’ guy leaves Minnesota too, the state is done.”
Here are the 16 Minnesota companies on the Fortune 500 list this year:
7: UnitedHealth Group Inc. (down from 6; 2019 revenues of $242.1 billion)
37: Target Corp. (up from 39; $78.1 billion)
75: Best Buy (down from 74; $43.6 billion)
103: 3M Co. (down from 95; $32.1 billion)
105: CHS (down from 91; $31.9 billion)
113: U.S. Bancorp (up from 117; $27.3 billion)
192: General Mills Inc. (up from 200; $16.8 billion)
208: C.H Robinson Worldwide (down from 185; $15.3 billion)
213: Ecolab Inc. (up from 215; $14.9 billion)
232: Land O’Lakes Inc. (down from 212; $13.9 billion)
245: Ameriprise Financial (up from 249; $13.1 billion)
276: Xcel Energy (down from 274; $11.5 billion)
337: Hormel Foods Corp. (down from 328; $9.5 billion)
368: Thrivent Financial (down from 351; $8.6 billion)
442: Polaris Inc. (up from 476; $6.9 billion)
455: Securian Financial Group (up from 506; $6.6 billion)
More ‘down’ rankings than ‘up’ rankings and big companies leaving/relocating every year.
Minnesota SHOULD be worried!
Medtronic, Boston Scientific and St. Jude Medical have a large presence here (all major medical device manufacturers).
Fridley MN is Medtronic’s base of operations. 3M and Honeywell locations that I know of are not directly in harm’s way, though they are close enough to the urban centers that they could be.
Those are MN based companies correct?
There are plenty of companies that are based elsewhere that have a large presence here.
I’m quite surprised Medtronic is not on the fortune 500 list.
Oh, my! That’s taking away jobs for blacks! Pearl clutching time.
I should’ve looked first:
Two years ago, Fortune stopped including Medtronic Corp. after its legal headquarters moved to Ireland through its acquisition of Covidien. At around $30 billion in annual revenue...
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