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Viv.. Here's more: Kerry, Heinz and Outsourcing - RushOnline.com

HEINZ CORPORATION.

Presidential hopeful John Kerry is always talking about "American jobs overseas". Kerry said that he does not "like" American companies that lower costs by employing overseas."

Oh REALLY?

WHO is benefitting by employing overseas? None other than the HEINZ Corporation, owned by Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz. Are they going to move some of their Heinz operations back to the good Ol' USA? Or are they going to stop railing against Bush about OTHER American companies with jobs OVERSEAS ?

102 of the 126 Corporate Sites are located in countries OUTSIDE of the U.S. ONLY 24 sites are inside the USA ( 20% of the Corporate locations ).

How could this INFLUENCE a President who's wife has companies in ALL these countries? Think of the conflict of interest a President might have, if the nation has a conflict with any of the countries containing his wife's factories or business interests. How many potential U.S. jobs are lost to these locations? Pass it on!!!! We are made strong by the difficulties WE FACE, not by those WE EVADE!

Information Verified 3/19/2004 against the HEINZ Corporate Web Site http://www.heinz.com/

As seen by the company profile pages on the company web pages (URLS below - as of 3/19/2004), the Heinz Corporation as 126 locations where it employs people and manufactures products.

AMERICAN SITES (http://www.heinz.com/jsp/di/corp_pro2002/corpProfile3.jsp)

1 Atlanta, Georgia;

2 Cedar Rapids, Iowa;

3 Chatsworth, California;

4 Dallas, Texas;

5 Escalon, California;

6 Fremont, Ohio;

7 Holland, Michigan;

8 Irvine, California;

9 Jacksonville, Florida; 10 King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; 11 Mason, Ohio; 12 Muscatine, Iowa; 13 Northbrook, Illinois; 14 Pennsauken, New Jersey; 15 Phoeniz, Arizona; 16 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 17 Stockton, California; 18 Westburyport, Massachusetts; 19 Ft. Myers, Florida; 20 Massillon, Ohio; 21 Ontario, Oregon; 22 Pocatello, Idaho; 23 West Chester, Pennsylvania; 24 Pago Pago, American Samoa

WORLD SITES http://www..heinz.com/jsp/di/corp_pro2002/corpProfile3.jsp http://www.heinz.com/jsp/di/corp_pro2002/corpProfile4.jsp http://www.heinz.com/jsp/di/corp_pro2002/corpProfile5.jsp http://www.heinz.com/jsp/di/corp_pro2002/corpProfile6.jsp

AMERICAS OUTSIDE UNITED STATES

1 North York, Ontario, Canada 2 Wheatley, Ontario, Canada 3 Elmira, Ontario, Canada; 4 Calgary, Alberta, Canada 5 Caracas, Venezuela 6 San Joaqu’n, Venezuela 7 San JosŽ, Costa Rica 8 Leamington, Ontario, Canada

UK AND IRELAND 9 Chorley, 10 Fakenham, 11 Grimsby, 12 Kendal, 13 Kitt Green, 14 Leaminton, 15 Luton, 16 Okehampton, 17 Telford, 18 Westwick 19 Hayes Park, Hayes, Middlesex, England 20 Liverpool, 21 Dublin,

FRANCE 22 Douarnenez, 23 Chateau-Renard; 24 Paris 25Chateaurenard

PORTUGAL 26 Benavente, 27 Peniche 28 Lisbon SPAIN 29 Alfaro 30 Madrid ITALY 31 Commessaggio, 32 Latina, 33 Monguzzo, 34 Ozzano Taro, 35 Rovereto 36 Milan

GREECE 37 Aliartos; 38 Athens;

POLAND 39 Miedzych—d, 40 Pudliszki, 41 Wodzislaw; 42 Warsaw

RUSSIA 43 Georgievsk 44 Moscow

EGYPT 45 Cairo

ISRAEL 46 Tel Aviv 47 Haifa

GERMANY 48 Seesen; 49 DŸsseldorf

NETHERLANDS 50 Baarn, 51 Elst, 52 Giessen, 53 Koog aan de Zaan, 54 Nijmegen, 55 Rijssen, 56 Utrecht, 57 Wormerveer 58 Koninkiljke de Puijter BV 59 Hak BV 60 Honig Merkartikelen BV 61 Drukkerij de Groenboer

BELGIUM 62 Brussels 63 Turnhout

SOUTH AFRICA 64 Johannesburg 65 Cape Town 66 Klerksdorp 67 Viljoenskroon 68 Barvale; 69 Benoni; 70 Wellington

BOTSWANA 71 Gaborone

ZIMBABWE 72 Harare 73 Chegutu

AUSTRALIA

74 Melbourne,

75 Dandenong;

76 Northern Victoria (Echuca, Girgarre);

77 Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea;

78 Wagga Wagga

MALAYSIA 79 ingapore

NEW ZEALAND

80 Auckland;

81 Christchurch; 82 Fielding,

83 Hastings; 84 Wanganui 85 Newmarket 86 Levin, 87 Mataura 88 Wellington

JAPAN 89 Tokyo

CHINA 90 Guangzhou 91 Qingdao

SOUTH KOREA 92 Inchon

THAILAND 93 Bangkok, 94 Bangplee

INDIA 95 Mumbai 96 Aligarh/Bangalore

INDONESIA 97 Jakarta 98 Surabaya

PHILIPPINES 99 Manila 100 Cabuyao Laguna; 101 Davao City

HONG KONG 102 Wanchai

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Comments From Our Readers

What a joke kerry is, he wants more jobs in the USA but most all of the heinz factories are all around the world. Bring them all back to the USA! He won't because he and teresa collect 20 million dollars yearly from the companies overseas. He wants to be president! Oy vey!!!!!!!!!!!!! Save us from this flip flopper!!!!!POLT

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[Vivian]

ONEBGG...

So I gather, from all the replies I got. It is absolutely acceptable, on the premise I gave ergo - that Heinz is to Kerry as Halliburton is to Cheney. We'll see how that goes over. LOL