{"id":5161,"date":"2013-08-27T18:51:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2013-08-27T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:51:36","slug":"walmart-hosts-us-manufacturing-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/walmart-hosts-us-manufacturing-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Hosts US Manufacturing Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart, the world&#8217;s largest retailer,\u00a0hosted a conference for more than 1,500 manufacturing and government officials\u00a0last Thursday at its US Manufacturing Summit. The\u00a0event, which was\u00a0held at the Orlando Convention\u00a0Center, was\u00a0co-sponsored by the \u00a0National Retail Federation. Scheduled participants\u00a0included Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Walmart CEO Mike Duke, GE chairman Jeff Immelt and the governors of eight states. Walmart&#8217;s hosting the summit is part of the company&#8217;s commitment to buy an additional $50 billion in products made in the US over the next ten years, according to a company <a href=\"https:\/\/news.walmart.com\/news-archive\/2013\/08\/22\/walmart-suppliers-government-officials-accelerate-job-growth-production-opportunities-at-us-manufacturing-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart, the world&#8217;s largest retailer,\u00a0hosted a conference for more than 1,500 manufacturing and government officials\u00a0last Thursday at its US Manufacturing Summit. The\u00a0event, which was\u00a0held at the Orlando Convention\u00a0Center, was\u00a0co-sponsored by the \u00a0National Retail Federation. Scheduled participants\u00a0included Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Walmart CEO Mike Duke, GE chairman Jeff Immelt and the governors of eight states. Walmart&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"Walmart Hosts US Manufacturing Summit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/walmart-hosts-us-manufacturing-summit\/\" aria-label=\"More on Walmart Hosts US Manufacturing Summit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079,348],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling","tag-material-handling-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}