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Pittman sets the record straight: jobs aren't going overseas.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Pittman sets the record straight: jobs aren't going overseas.(Gail Pittman Inc. )

Article Excerpt
A shockwave went through Mississippi's business community recently when it was reported that Gail Pittman Inc. was closing its Ridgeland manufacturing facility and shipping 45 jobs overseas.

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The news broke late in the afternoon of Friday, October 17 and made for a long weekend for Gail Pittman, the CEO of her namesake company that has been handcrafting pottery and dinnerware since 1979.

"I didn't even go to the grocery store that weekend," Pittman said.

Though all the hand-wringing over the specter of outsourced jobs was for naught--"I'm glad people are sensitive to jobs being sent to China, but that's not what we're doing," Pittman clarified--the Pittman...

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