About Made in Fall River

Made in Fall River: That simple declaration sums up one of the most important, yet least understood, elements of our local economy – our manufacturers.
 

Many of our city’s manufacturers toil in virtual obscurity. This Web site, madeinfallriver.com, aims to change that. We will present here, on a multimedia platform, the comprehensive story of manufacturing in Fall River – past, present and future.

It is manufacturers who drive our local economy by positively impacting our local trade balance. Also, it’s manufacturers that have traditionally been the primary providers of significant numbers of good-paying jobs – the kinds of jobs that support families and are necessary for any community to enjoy a good quality of life. Knowing that products made here in Fall River are sold far and wide fosters pride and speaks to the innovation and savvy of our business leaders, and to the work ethic and abilities of our workforce.

We will tell the story of how every sale made to customers outside of Fall River supplies money that flows back into our community through salaries and wages paid to employees, and through manufacturers’ local purchases of goods and services necessary to their operations. When it comes to providing economic support to a community, no other kind of business or organization comes close to doing as much good as do manufacturers. They are truly the engine that drives our economy. As a community, we need to pay attention to that engine.