The following "Thumbs Down List" has been designed for use as a Reference Tool. Because, in order to learn, it is often necessary to study the past; hopefully achieving the ultimate goal in preventing History from repeating itself.

Thumbs Down List Organized Alphabetically by Company / Corporation

Corporate Headquarters

350 Campus Drive
Marlborough, MA 01752-3064

3Com appoints new CEO, to be based in China - Reuters

UPDATE 1-3Com new CEO Mao to be based in China - Reuters

Bain Capital agrees to security review of $2.2B buyout of 3Com that involves Chinese partner - Sign On San Diego

Bain, Huawei Seek $1.2 Billion Loans in 3Com Buyout - Bloomberg

3Com Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Bain Capital Partners for $5.30 Per Share in Cash - Business Wire

$2.2b buyout seen affirming strength in Asian markets - Boston Globe

3Com finally sells out to China - Yahoo News UK

ACTION
RAGS
USA

Action Rags USA
1225 Port Houston St
Houston, TX 77029

5 employers of Action Rags USA charged with hiring, employing illegal aliens - ICE: US Immigration & Customs Enforcement

Defendants in ICE raid case appear in court - Houston Chronicle

Adams Respiratory Therapeutics

4 Mill Ridge Lane, Mill Ridge Farm
Chester, NJ 07930

Acquisition of Adams Respiratory Therapeutics by Reckitt Benckiser - PR Newswire

Reckitt to Buy Adams Respiratory for $2.3 Billion - Bloomberg

Reckitt to Buy Cough-Syrup Firm - Wall Street Journal

Reckitt buys US pharmaceutical group - Financial Times

Agriprocessors, Inc.
P.O. Box 920,
220 West Street
Postville, IA 52162

Claims of ID fraud lead to largest raid in state history - Des Moines Register

300 arrested in Iowa immigration raid at largest U.S. kosher meat plant - USA Today

Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
One Busch Place.
St. Louis, MO 63118

Anheuser-Busch Agrees to InBev Sale - Fox News

Anheuser-Busch Agrees to Be Sold to InBev - New York Times

InBev Looks to Expand Budweiser’s Reach - New York Times

InBev snags Anheuser-Busch and its marketing clout - Yahoo News

InBev to buy Anheuser-Busch for $52B - CNN

Bain Capital

111 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02199

Dubai Ports redux over China deal - CNN

GOP urges probe in China firm deal - Washington Times

Will 3Com Deal Funnel U.S. Defense Secrets to the Chinese? - Wall Street Journal

Bain Capital and Huawei Team To Buy 3Com for $2.2B - News Factor

Bank of America Corporate Center

100 N. Tryon St.,
Charlotte, NC 28255

Bank of America launches credit card for illegal immigrants - USA Today

Bank of America's New Credit Card Targets Illegal Immigrants - Fox News

Lawmaker battles Bank of America Illegals policy - World Net Daily

GOP Lawmakers Peeved at New Bank of America Credit Card Program - Fox News

BARNEYS

NEW YORK

Barneys

660 Madison Avenue
New York NY 10021

Jones Apparel Group selling Barneys stores - The Arizona Republic

Barneys sold for $825M to Dubai Investment Firm - MSNBC

Dubai Government Buys Barneys for $825 Million - New York Times

Bear Stearns Corporate Offices
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179

Bear Stearns, China's Citic to Invest in Each Other - Bloomberg

China's CITIC bids for Bear Stearns stake - Washington Post

Bear Stearns, China's CITIC Strike Alliance - CNBC

The

Blackstone

Group

The Blackstone Group
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154

China to Buy a Stake in Blackstone - New York Times

Blackstone + China = Bubble Marriage: - Bloomberg

China's Blackstone Buy Shows a New Angle - NPR

Boeing Corporate Offices
100 North Riverside Chicago, IL 60606

Boeing and Tata Industries Announce India Joint Venture - Boeing

Boeing Enters Into Agreement with TAL Manufacturing Solutions - Boeing

Boeing, Tata Form India Venture for Aerospace Parts - Bloomberg

Brach's Confections, Inc. 19111 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 200 Dallas, TX 75287

Chicago Is Home Sweet Home To Fewer Candy Factories - Washington Post

This 'Boom!' bittersweet - Chicago Tribune

Leaders urge reuse of Brach's site - Chicago Business

BRONCO
WINE
COMPANY

Bronco Wine Company
6342 Bystrum Road
Ceres, CA 95307

Business Greed Kills Teen Farmworker - Lou Dobbs

Bronco Wine Company - Wikipedia

Brunswick Corporation
1 North Field Court
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045-4811

Brunswick Moves Ball Production - Bowlers Journal

Game maker moves factory to Mexico - All Business.com

MiTAC to Acquire Brunswick Corporation's Brunswick New Technologies Personal Navigation Device Business (Navman) - PR News Wire, UK

Mercury Marine to open plant in China - JS Online

The Carlyle Group

1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-2505

Abu Dhabi buys $1.35bn stake in Carlyle Group - Business Times Online

Carlyle Group sells stake to Abu Dhabi - Business Week

Carlyle Group Sells Stake to Abu Dhabi - Washington Post

Cessna Aircraft Company
P.O. Box 7706
Wichita KS 67277

Cessna's New Plane to Be Built in China - Wall Street Journal

Cessna Chooses China's Shenyang Aircraft Corporation as Manufacturing Partner for Model 162 SkyCatcher - Textron

Textron's Cessna, Shenyang to Make Planes in China - Bloomberg

Chaco, Inc.
39955 Hayden Rd.
Paonia, CO 81428

A proudly American shoe company ships jobs to China - Christian Science Monitor

Chaco sandals leave Paonia for China - The Aspen Times

73 laid off at Chaco moves production to China - Delta County Independent

Cinram Inc. - U.S. Head Office
1600 Rich Road
Richmond, IN 47374

As Many As 150 Cinram Employees Missing - WHNT News 19

Finger-Pointing Continues Over Missing Foreign Workers at Cinram - ABC WAAY 31 News

100 Nepalese Workers Missing From Alabama Plant - FOX News

Citgo Corporate Offices

1293 Eldridge Parkway
Houston, TX 77077

CASA de Maryland set to accept $1.5M from Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum - Examiner

Venezuela’s Chavez Injects Himself into U.S. ILLEGAL Immigration Debate - Immigration Watchdog

Has Citgo become a political tool for Hugo Chávez? - USA Today

Boycott Citgo Headquarters - Citgo Boycott

Citi
399 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10043

Citigroup sells stake to Abu Dubai for $7.5bn - Telegraph UK

Citigroup Sells Abu Dhabi Fund $7.5 Billion Stake - New York Times

Citigroup sells stake to Abu Dhabi fund - MSNBC

Dollar General Corporate Office 100 Mission Ridge

Goodlettsville, TN 37072

Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.

500 Volvo Parkway
Chesapeake, VA 23320

Family Dollar Executive Offices

Post Office Box 1017
Charlotte, North Carolina 28201

News Channel 9 WSYR 3-Part Series:

Dollar Store Dangers: What are You Buying? 7/18/07 -Part 1

Dollar Store Dangers: What's The Problem 7/18/07 -Part 2

Dollar Store Dangers: Where's The Regulation? 7/18/07 - Part 3

Dollar Stores - "Discount Dangers" - KXAN Austin

Shoppers offered few safeguards against 'Wild West' imports - CNN

DELL Corporate Offices

One Dell Way

Round Rock, TX 78682

Dell announces 8,000 layoffs; 1Q earnings rise - MSNBC

Dell Hell: Computer Giant Faces Consumer Lawsuit - ABC News

Dell Affirms Commitment to India - Internet News

U.S. Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20590

DOT extends Mexican truck plan - Logistics Management

DOT To Extend Mexican Truck Program for 2 Years - Transport Topics Online

Cross Border Truck Safety Inspection Program - US DOT

Dill Air Controls
1500 Williamsboro Street
Oxford, North Carolina 27565

Fatal Rollover Prompts Probe into Chinese-Made Tire Valve Stems Safety - Sun Herald

Distributor recalls 6 million Chinese-made tire valve stems - Detroit News

Fatal Rollover Prompts Probe into Chinese-Made Tire Valve Stems Safety - Forbes.com

The Dow Chemical Company
2030 Dow Center
Midland, MI 48674 U.S.A.

Dow Chemical Mixes With Kuwait Petroleum - Forbes

Dow Chemical Gets Kuwaiti Partner - New york Times

Dow Chemical enters joint venture with Kuwait firm - USA Today

Dow Chemical plans joint venture with Kuwaiti company, sells 50 percent stake for $9.5B - MSNBC

FGX International, Inc.
500 George Washington Highway
Smithfield, RI 02917

Children’s Sunglasses Recalled by FGX International Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard - CPSC: US Consumer Product Safety Commission

Corporate Headquarters

6200 South Quebec St

Greenwood Village, CO 80111

First Data outsourcing will target tech jobs - Rocky Mountain News

First Data to cut costs by consolidating centers, outsourcing - Denver Post

Headquarters for Fisher-Price is a campus of buildings
located in East Aurora, New York

Fisher-Price recalls almost one million toys - CTV.ca

Fragomen
Two Liberty Square
11th Floor
Boston, MA 02109-4892

Labor probing work of major immigration law firm - Associated Press

Major immigration law firm under federal scrutiny - USA Today

Immigration firm under scrutiny - Houston Chronicle

Gap Inc. Headquarters

Two Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Gap Threatens India's Clothing Boom - Time

Gap disavows India sweatshop tied to child workers - Market Watch

India Says Activists Hyping Child Labor - San Francisco Gate

Gap Fires India Firm, calls vendor meeting - United Press International

Genlyte Group LLC
10350 Ormsby Park Place, Suite 601
Louisville, KY 40223

Philips to buy Genlyte for $2.7 billion - International Herald Tribune

Philips to Acquire Genlyte for $2.7 Billion in Cash - Bloomberg

Dutch-based firm deepens U.S. footprint, poised to overtake GE as largest North American lighting company - CNN Money

Graco Children's Products Inc.
150 Oaklands Boulevard
Exton, PA 19341

Recall: Simplicity and Graco Baby Cribs - WOAI

Recent Death Prompts Renewed Search for Simplicity Cribs with Graco Logo - CPSC

Harbor Freight

3491 Mission Oaks Blvd. Camarillo, CA 93011

Importer to recall Chinese-made car fuses - CNN Money

Chinese-Made Auto Fuses May Cause Fire - Consumer Affairs

Hartmann
1301 Hartmann Drive
Lebanon, TN 37087

Brown-Forman agrees to sell luggage business - UK Reuters

BROWN-FORMAN Sells Luggage Unit - Wine Spirits Daily

Luggage company closing Middle Tenn. plant - KNOX News

Hershey Chocolate Company

100 Crystal A Drive

Hershey, PA 17033

Bittersweet times for Hershey - Just Food.com

Hershey Closes Reading Plant, Moves to Mexico - Keystone Politics

Hershey Leaves Bitter Taste - Santa Fe New Mexican

Hundreds of Union Members Will Lose Their Jobs When Hershey Moves to Mexico - Union Review

Hoffa Visits NAFTA Victims at Hershey Plant in Pennsylvania - Fox Business

Hoover - TTI Floor Care North America
7005 Cochran Road
Glenwillow, Ohio 44139

Techtronic Industries (TTI) to Complete Hoover Acquisition (PDF) - Hoover

TTI Floor Care to Close Main Hoover Facilities in Ohio - ReliablePlant.com

Howard Industries, Inc.
PO Box 1588
Laurel MS 39441

595 arrested in ICE and Department of Justice joint immigration enforcement action initiated at Mississippi transformer manufacturing facility - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Nearly 600 Were Arrested in Factory Raid, Officials Say - New York Times

ICE: Nearly 600 detained in Mississippi plant raid - Associated Press

Feds detain nearly 600 in Miss. plant raid - MSNBC

IBM Corporation
1 New Orchard Road
Armonk, New York 10504

IBM sells PC business to China's Lenovo - MSNBC

U.S. Executive Offices
P.O. Box 0445
155 Chestnut Ridge Road
Montvale, NJ 07645

Ingersoll-Rand Company Ltd.
Clarendon House, 2 Church Street, Hamilton HM 11, BERMUDA

Ingersoll-Rand to Sell its Bobcat, Utility Equipment and Attachments Business Units for $4.9 Billion - ForConstructionPros.com

Ingersoll-Rand to sell Bobcat division - USA Today

Ingersoll to sell units for $4.9 bln to Doosan - South Korea - Yahoo AP

JetBlue Airways
118-29 Queens Blvd
Forest Hills, NY 11375

Lufthansa to buy stake in JetBlue - MSNBC

Lufthansa Pays $300M for JetBlue Stake - Newsday

JetBlue Sells Stake to Lufthansa for $300 Million - New York Times

Kolcraft Enterprises Inc.
10832 NC Highway 211 East
Aberdeen, NC 28315

Kolcraft to recall 425,000 infant play yards - safety body - UK Reuters

Kolcraft Recall: Play Yards Recalled After 10-Month-Old Child Dies - Huliq.com

Kolcraft recalls 425,000 play yards - CNN Money

Lehman Brothers
1271 Avenue of the Americas
45th Floor
New York, NY 10020

Barclays to Acquire Lehman Brothers' Business and Assets - Lehman Press Release (PDF)

Barclays to buy Lehman Brothers assets - Guardian.co.uk

Barclays buys Lehman Brothers, sort of - Time

Barclays agrees to buy some Lehman assets - Reuters UK

Barclays to buy Lehman Brothers core business for $1.75 bln - China View News

Levi Strauss & Co.
1155 Battery St.
San Francisco, CA
94111

Levi Strauss Closing Plant - New York Times

Levi Strauss Shuts All U.S. Plants - CBS News

Blue-jean maker has been moving jobs overseas for years - MSNBC

Levi's Last US Workers Mourn Loss of Good Jobs - Global Policy.org

Mattel, Inc.
333 Continental Boulevard
El Segundo, CA 90245-5012

Lawmakers urge Mattel to stop selling lead-tainted toys - CNN Money

Lawmakers Say Mattel Broke Word on Lead - New York Times

Mattel Recall of Lead-Tainted Chinese Toys Cost $30 Million - Bloomberg

Mattel sees $30 million charge from toy recall - Washington Post

Mattel Issues New Recall of Toys Made in China - New York Times

Mattel recalled millions more toys because Chinese supplier used lead tainted paint & defective parts-Video CNN

Owner of Chinese Toy Factory Commits Suicide - New York Times

Mattel Issues Third Toy Recall Of the Summer - Washington Post

Maytag Customer Service
553 Benson Road
Benton Harbor, MI 49022

Maytag closing means more than loss of jobs - Vindy

Maytag Ill. Plant to Be Phased Out - CNBC

Whirlpool To Close Maytag Plants; 4,500 Jobs Eliminated; Union Blames Bush - RTO Online

City Feels Early Effects Of Plant Closing in 2004 - New York Times

Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052

Who Got H-1B Visas Petitions Approved Last Year? Look At The List - Information Week

Microsoft's Gates wants more professional visas - Reuters

Gates Repeats Request for More H-1B Visas - Yahoo News

Programmers Guild rebuts Bill Gates call for more H-1b visas - Programmers Guild

Micro Solutions Enterprises
8201 Woodley Avenue
Van Nuys, CA 91406

Authorities raid Southern California printer supply company - KSBY Action News

Raid of Southern California printer supply company net 120 - Sign On San Diego

Van Nuys printer supply company raided - ABC7

Millennium Pharmaceuticals
40 Landsdowne Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Takeda to buy Millennium Pharmaceuticals for $8 billion - Chicago Tribune

Millennium sold for $8.8b to Japanese drug firm - Boston Globe

Takeda Faces Generic Threat Even With Millennium Buy - Bloomberg

Takeda to Pay Billions to Get Into Biotech - Wall Street Journal

Takeda Pays $8.8 Billion for Biotechnology Firm - New York Times

Mills Manufacturing Corporation
PO Box 8100
Asheville, NC 28814

ICE arrests 57 illegal aliens employed by Asheville Department of Defense Contractor - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

57 parachute plant workers arrested - The News and Observer

Immigration arrests 57 suspected illegal aliens at Defense Contractor - News Channel 7 North Carolina

Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036

Japanese Bank to Buy Stake in Morgan Stanley - CNBC

Japan's Largest Bank Buying Stake in Morgan Stanley - Washington Post

Why a China Deal Didn’t Work Out for Morgan Stanley - Wall Street Journal

Morgan Stanley to sell 20 pct stake in itself - Associated Press

Northrop Grumman
Corporate Headquarters
1840 Century Park East
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Northrop Grumman gets $40B deal to replace Air Force tankers - CNN

Northrop Grumman, EADS Win Multibillion-Dollar Air Force Tanker Contract - Fox News

Northrop Grumman beats out Boeing - USA Today

Northrop Grumman to Build Tankers for Air Force - Washington Post

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
PO Box 93
Pittsburg, TX 75686

Feds arrest workers at Pilgrim's Pride plants - Market Watch

ICE Raids At Pilgrim's Pride Yield 400 Arrests - Cattle Network

Hundreds arrested in immigration raids at poultry plants - Associated Press

Immigration Raids at Pilgrims Pride - KTRE News

Pfizer Corporate

235 East 42nd Street
NY, NY 10017

Pfizer to lay off 10,000 workers, close plants - MSNBC

Pfizer May Double Outsourcing - Wall Street Journal

Pfizer considers outsourcing 30% of manufacturing, mostly to Asia - Market Watch

Prudential Financial, Inc.
751 Broad Street
23rd Floor
Newark, NJ 07102

Prudential sells Abu Dhabi fund its 75% stake in Chrysler Building - NJ.com New Jersey

Abu Dhabi Acquires a Stake in Chrysler Building - New York Times

Chrysler Building on the Block - New York Post

Chrysler Building in New York sold to Abu Dhabi fund - International Herald Tribune

Radio Shack
Corporate Offices
Riverfront Campus World Headquarters
300 RadioShack Circle
Fort Worth, TX 76102-1964

RadioShack Recalls Power Supplies Due to Electrocution and Fire Hazards - Radio Shack

RadioShack Recalls Power Supplies Due to Electrocution and Fire Hazards - CPSC: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Rawlings Group
510 Maryville University Dr. Suite 110
St. Louis, MO 63141

Batting Helmets Recalled by Rawlings Sporting Goods Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard - US Recall News

Rawlings recalling batting helmets - FOX News 16

Batting helmets recalled by Rawlings Sporting Goods - WTOL Toledo News

Samsonite Corporation
575 West Street
Suite 110,
Mansfield, MA 02048

Samsonite to be Sold - New York Times

Samsonite Sold for $1.1 billion - Boston Globe

European regulators clear Samsonite sale - Boston Globe

Samsonite to close Denver HQ, move some operations to Mass. - Boston Globe

Seagate Technology
920 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Brand new Seagate hard drives ship with Trojan virus - Geek.com

Seagate External Hard Drives Preloaded with Trojan Horse - Mobile Magazine

China virus found in Seagate drives in Taiwan - Reuters

Chinese Seek to Buy a U.S. Maker of Disk Drives - New York Times

Shipley Do-Nuts
5200 N. Main
Houston, TX 77009

ICE raids donut plant in Houston - Yahoo Video

Immigration raids Shipley Do-Nuts plant - KHOU News

Immigration raid nets 20 arrests at Houston Shipley Do-Nut plant - Houston Chronicle

Simplicity for Children
501 South 9th Street
Reading, PA 19602

Simplicity Brand Drop Side Cribs Recalled By Various Retailers Due To Serious Entrapment And Suffocation Hazard To Infants and Toddlers - US Product & Safety Commission

Baby Cribs Recalled After 3 Deaths - Google's Associated Press

3 Baby Deaths Spur Mass Crib Recall - WebMD

Recent Death Prompts Renewed Search for Simplicity Cribs with Graco Logo - CPSC

Specialty Lamp International
1419 W. Newport Center Drive
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442

Square D® Company Settles With Specialty Lamp International to Prevent Sale of Counterfeit Products - NEMA

Counterfeit Circuit Breakers Recalled By Specialty Lamp International Due to Fire Hazard - US Recall News

Counterfeit Circuit Breakers recalled By Specialty Lamp International - WTOL Toledo News

Action Rags USA 1225 Port Houston St Houston, TX 77029