{"id":2581,"date":"2008-05-30T04:52:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T11:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2008-05-30T06:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:43:04","slug":"callaway-tugs-balls-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2581","title":{"rendered":"Callaway Drags Its Balls To China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.callawaygolf.com\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Callaway Golf<\/a><\/strong> has announced that they are closing their 70,000-square-foot golfball manufacturing facility in Gloversville, NY on July 31 and laying off 120 workers as a way of taking &#8220;advantage of lower manufacturing and shipping costs in China,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/triangle.bizjournals.com\/triangle\/othercities\/losangeles\/stories\/2008\/05\/26\/daily19.html\" target=\"_blank\">Triangle Business Journal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have an obligation to our shareholders and employees to run as efficiently as possible,&#8221; said <strong>Michele Szynal<\/strong>, a Callaway spokeswoman. &#8220;This obviously makes financial sense for us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We think Michele meant a responsibility to Callaway&#8217;s remaining employees, as they don&#8217;t seem too bothered by cutting 120.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/triangle.bizjournals.com\/triangle\/othercities\/losangeles\/stories\/2008\/05\/26\/daily19.html\" target=\"_blank\">Triangle Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad based Callaway Golf has announced that they are closing their 70,000-square-foot golfball manufacturing facility in Gloversville, NY on July 31 and laying off 120 workers as a way of taking &#8220;advantage of lower manufacturing and shipping costs in China,&#8221; according to a story in the Triangle Business Journal. We have an obligation to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}