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General Electric Co. Plans to spend $432 million dollars and add 500 U.S. jobs to design and make energy-efficient refrigerators, returning positions to a division up for sale as recently as 2008. Factories and design centers in Bloomington, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Decatur, Alabama; and Selmer, Tennessee will open during the next four years. Fairfield, Conn. Based GE said. Designs will incorporate Energy Star standards in effect in 2014 and target the U.S. GE has created more than $1 billion in new investment and 1,300 U.S. appliance-related jobs since 2009. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt said he planned to bring appliance jobs back from China and Mexico, because U.S. workers were making higher quality products for less.                  Source: www.bloomberg.com

 Southern Crafted Homes is proud to partner with GE and other companies that manufacture their products in America. Whever possible we buy from companies in the Tampa Bay area first and Florida second. Finally if we cannot do that we prefer American companies. More American businesses need to adopt the buy American attitude. We can have a greater impact on our economy by adopting that attitude than what the federal governmentis doing.