President George W. Bush plans to make good on a promise made last fall, by rescheduling for Friday a tour of the corporate headquarters of World Wide Technology, Inc. in Maryland Heights.

The visit will include a speech by Bush on the economy, which is slated to be delivered at the firm’s warehouse.

Neither event will be open to the general public.

Bush had planned to visit the company last October, but cancelled the stop so that he could travel instead to California, which at the time was battling huge wildfires.

As my colleague in our Washington Bureau, Bill Lambrecht, reports on the mother ship: “World Wide, a privately held company with about $2.5 billion in sales last year, is an information technology company that provides both hardware and services for its clients.”