As manufacturing becomes more high-tech and global, companies are looking to locate and expand in communities with well-connected networks of talent.

Categories: Deals, Workforce Development
Tagged: manufacturing, Reshoring, Wichita KS, workforce,

Transportation and infrastructure are becoming increasingly important components of the site selection process, whether for manufacturing, distribution or corporate headquarters. Transportation costs, energy costs and the ability to get people and product to places the quickest and the cheapest are major considerations in location investment decisions.

Categories: Job Creation, Research, Site Selection
Tagged: job growth, manufacturing, top business friendly states, transportation, workforce,

Expasnions for Physicians Choice Laboratory Services, NBTY and Don’s Cold Storage top the week’s investment and job creation announcements.

Categories: Deals, Job Creation
Tagged: Indiana economy, Missouri, North Carolina economy, South Carolina economy,

Relocation and expansion projects are hot right now for companies, but budgets are tight, and CEOs expect to see a return on investment in 18 months or less. How can communities best position themselves to land deals? Site selectors weigh in.

Categories: Deals, Site Selection
Tagged: corporate relocation, Foreign direct investment, incentives, workforce,

The positive traction around manufacturing includes the addition of 500,000 factory jobs in the last two years, about 50,000 of them from reshored manufacturing that had been outsourced to lower-wage Asian markets, especially China.

Categories: Site Selection
Tagged: logistics, manufacturing, Reshoring, transportation,

Some foreign direct investment projects top the week’s site selection and job creation announcements: In the Charlotte USA region, Denver Global Products Inc., a subsidiary of Chongqing RATO Power Co. Ltd., is building manufacturing, distribution and research facilities in Lincoln County. The company, a subsidiary of a Chinese-based manufacturer of thermo-power products and general-purpose engines for all-terrain [...]

Categories: Deals, Job Creation
Tagged: Charlotte USA, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina,

Universities and hospitals have long been stable sources of income for cities, especially during tough economic times, but how reliable are these “eds” and “meds” sectors? How can cities with health-care and higher ed resources maximize them?

Categories: Job Creation, Workforce Development
Tagged: colleges and universities, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Higher education, hospitals, tech transfer,