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Article: America Sidco bridges gap between U.S. firms and overseas suppliers.(FOREFRONT)
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES seeking manufacturing partners in Asia, the complexities run deeper than the language barrier. Unfamiliar business protocol, fluctuating costs, and wildly disparate standards of workmanship make the overseas manufacturing scene a minefield for the unprepared. Based out of Ontario, California, newly founded America Sidco aims to bridge the divide by matching Western suppliers of student brass, woodwinds, and accessories with partner factories in China and elsewhere--while helping them navigate the pitfalls they meet along the way. The company plans to take on its first clients as early as this June.
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