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Experience the Nebraska Advantage

Experience the Nebraska Advantage

Leading Companies Based in Nebraska: Novozymes, a biotech leader based in Denmark, near Copenhagen, is the latest company to choose Nebraska for its n...

Tax and Incentive Strategies for Manufacturing Operations

Tax and Incentive Strategies for Manufacturing Operations

It’s certainly not news that manufacturing in America has been under growing cost and competitive pressure for some time. Coupled with the current eco...

U. S. Manufacturing: Still in the Driver’s Seat

U. S. Manufacturing: Still in the Driver’s Seat

Mark Twain’s comment upon reading his own obituary applies perfectly to American manufacturing in 2008. “The reports of my death have been greatly exa...

Kansas: Expanding the State’s Economic Development Toolbox

Kansas: Expanding the State’s Economic Development Toolbox

In January, the Kansas Legislature convened with an eye toward expanding the state’s economic development toolbox, something it had done during each o...

U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Help U.S.-Based Manufacturers Meet the Challenges Posed by...

U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Help U.S.-Based Manufacturers Meet the Challenges Posed by Globalization

Ask a number of plant managers for U.S.-based manufacturing operations who they regard as their particular manufacturing facility’s biggest source of ...

Moving Without the Ball

Moving Without the Ball

There is a saying in basketball that often the most important players on the court are the ones “moving without the ball” because inevitably these are...

Missouri Means Business

Missouri Means Business

Missouri advantages: transportation accessibility, available skilled labor, low-cost energy, large tracts of developable real estate, proximity to ma...

Retailers

Retailers

Site selection for a large retail establishment is different than almost any other industry. The process is driven from the outside in, as opposed to ...

The U.S. High-Tech Industry is Still Adding Jobs, but the Pace Has Slowed

The U.S. High-Tech Industry is Still Adding Jobs, but the Pace Has Slowed

AeA, the nation’s largest trade association representing all segments of the high-tech industry, released its annual Cyberstates report in April, and ...

Florida's IT, Emerging Technologies Sectors Setting New Stage for Business Opportunity

Florida's IT, Emerging Technologies Sectors Setting New Stage for Business Opportunity

Florida attracts a wide variety of information technology firms, from start-ups that turn the latest academic research into commercially viable techno...