Callaway moves New Jersey golf
ball factory operation to China

Callaway is to close its golf ball-making factory in New Jersey and move the operation to China to take advantage of lower manufacturing and shipping costs.
The 70,000sq ft plant at Gloversville will close its doors for the last time on July 31 at a cost of 120 jobs.
Callaway spokeswoman Michele Szynal said that because almost half of the company’s sales and more than 50 percent of its profits come from outside the United States, the move made sense “from an operations, logistics and cost point of view.”
Some of the Gloversville production, which consisted of Callaway and Top Flite-branded balls, will move to Chicopee, Massachusetts, where the bulk of Callaway’s balls are manufactured.