Sophia Foods is a family-owned specialty food distributor founded in 1991. It strives to bring specialty products from around the world to consumers at low prices. GSP is vital in allowing Sophia Foods to keep prices competitive. Sophia Foods was forced to lay off workers each of the last two times Congress allowed GSP to...
Continue readingB&C Technologies in Florida is an industry leader in commercial and industrial laundry equipment. B&C imports laundry equipment, particularly parts, from Thailand under GSP and sent one of the more memorable photos for the 2014 GSP expiration survey report: the facility they bought to expand U.S. manufacturing but could not finish because o...
Continue readingLast week, we profiled two companies (Summit Specialty International in Georgia and Sophia Foods in New York) that have bounced bounced strongly since Congress renewed GSP. Despite difficulties faced during the GSP lapse, both have more workers – and provide expanded benefits for those workers – than when GSP expired in 2013. (If you ha...
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