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Just-in-time manufacturing: Craft-Co keeping pipeline full.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-MAY-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1063 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Just-in-time manufacturing: Craft-Co keeping pipeline full.(Company Profile)

Article Excerpt
WILTON J. "BILL" JOHNSON JR.

MORTON -- The Craft-Co plant in this Scott County community is one of those dream industries. They have an awards day for the honor roll children of employees -- the award is a $100 savings bond.

And president Jim Finley tells the students, "Bring somebody with you next year."

Employees participate in both a 401(k) and profit-sharing plan and, along with other citizens, can enroll in GED or college courses taught on company premises by East Central Mississippi Community College faculty. The plant, located on U.S. 80 on the western edge of Morton, keeps attractive grounds enhanced with Bradford pear trees and has received a city beautification award. And Finley actually offers to assist in attracting other industries to the area and state.

All communities should be so lucky.

Breaking the golden handcuffs

There's no braggadocio or bombast about Finley. A soft-spoken bespectacled African-American, he was born in Mobile to a pharmacist father...

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