Fayetteville's CelTech has had a similar counter-balancing. About a month ago, an order from Taiwan came in to CelTech's Maxwell Street office. Companies of that size have so many plants in order to find low-cost labor, she said. They're not selling tires in Thailand. The company also has customers in China, England, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and Italy, among other places.
Some economic problems help local companies.
There has been a tremendous depreciation in the cost of land in Indonesia, Putt-Putt's Owens said. The Putt-Putt franchiser there is buying that land. And other local companies benefit from that.