We Can't put the Union Flag because our company is not "united" (And I'm really happy for that and before a huge talk begins, I don't own the company, I'm just an employee and very happy for not being part of any Union)
Actually... recently the "union" buried our attempt to close the plant in China and bring the production to the USA.
If we were going to pay everything they wanted, the WonderWash (Our cheapest model) would have to cost $500, Obviously we wouldn't sell anything and in two months we would have to close the doors and fire everybody.
The solution was create new partnerships in UK and France (YAY, we got Brandt), reduce 50% of our staff in China, increase 70% in our plant in Brazil.
We would love to make our products here in the USA, we recently bought a giant plant in a state that is desperate for jobs and we were willing to create 900 jobs in the USA but instead of helping us, the union just wanted to destroy us. We can't complete with Panda and Haier if our prices are 10x higher than their Chinese crap just to cover labor costs simply because customers don't care about value, they want "the lowest price, no matter how".
If our products are literally 5 cents more expensive than our competitors, even being much better, even coming with an spectacular warranty our sales simply drop 80 to 90%.
The "Made in UK" at least is better than "Made in China", for many people. That's why we put the flag. 100% of our products are developed in the USA. This dryer for example, uses the original platform, but it's very different inside. Actually, the design is so good that White Knight will start using some elements of my project in their UK products.
And it's kinda scary, we don't know if this product will succeed because the MSRP is average $10 more than the similar capacity model made in China and sold by Panda. Specially at Walmart and Amazon, some consumers are so stupid that if you try to sell a brand new TOL Tesla costing $1 more than a Ford Pinto falling apart, they will prefer the Pinto just because it's $1 cheaper.
We're counting on the smaller footprint and bigger capacity, dryness sensor, drying rack and the 3-year full "hassle-free" warranty (panda has 90-day full warranty)
