Rowe Jukebox Mfg. Leaves Michigan for Mexico


	Rowe Jukebox Mfg. Leaves Michigan for Mexico

BartendingBear

2-27-2009 4:29 PM

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A century of history goes south with it.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53bd8c12-8f9a-4fd1-b0ea-bb41328968a0/FEE89586-49DB-4451-BEFF-352B13180036/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan" href="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newsvine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan">Rowe International Corp. says it will move the production of its jukeboxes to Mexico after nearly a century of making them in Grand Rapids, Mich.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newsvine.com/img/6E511D0E-A6FB-48D9-A9E2-35588E29EC39" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan">This is a 1948 Model "B" at Rowe International's jukebox museum</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan">The iconic music-machine maker told about 100 factory workers on Thursday that the change will take place in August.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan">Rowe, one of the largest makers of commercial and residential coin-operated jukeboxes, was founded in Chicago in 1909 and moved its headquarters a few years later to Grand Rapids, where more than 1 million of the machines have been made. A St. Louis-based private equity firm owns the company.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan">Rowe plans to keep about 70 administrative positions in engineering, sales and accounting in Grand Rapids.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan">"The downturn in the economy became too much, and we'd done all we could do to keep the company viable here,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/27/2486246-rowe-to-make-jukeboxes-in-mexico-not-michigan">Production will be transferred to a facility in Reynosa, Mexico, near the Texas border. 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