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It’s Time To Rethink Energy When Making a Site Decision

It’s Time To Rethink Energy When Making a Site Decision

Corporate managers who make location decisions for new investments need to ensure energy remains reliable and costs are in line with industry needs.

National Association of Manufacturers: Rising Gas Prices Require a Comprehensive Energy...

National Association of Manufacturers: Rising Gas Prices Require a Comprehensive Energy Strategy

NAM: For manufacturers—who use 1/3 of all energy consumed in the U.S.—rising gas prices hamper new investments, expansions, job creation.

Fitting Square Pegs into Square Holes: Designated Sites Offer a “Custom” Fit for...

Fitting Square Pegs into Square Holes: Designated Sites Offer a “Custom” Fit for Business Development

A select group of sites featured for businesses that find development and growth within a designated industry cluster very desirable.

Kansas: Kansas Anticipates 23,000 New Jobs and a New Energy Boom

Kansas: Kansas Anticipates 23,000 New Jobs and a New Energy Boom

Kansas continues to reform tax policy, econ. dev. under Brownback Administration, creating more business-friendly environment, jobs.

Surge in Manufacturing Reshoring is a Matter of Calculation

Surge in Manufacturing Reshoring is a Matter of Calculation

Offshoring for cheap labor has lost much of its strength, and companies are adopting a total cost analysis that often favors local sourcing.

Take Advantage of Foreign Trade Zones to Maximize Corporate Resources

Take Advantage of Foreign Trade Zones to Maximize Corporate Resources

FTZ: Economic development tool helping businesses save money, communities attract new jobs and increase our export power, one community at a time. Thr...

Florida: Looking into the Sun: Florida’s Solar Industry

Florida: Looking into the Sun: Florida’s Solar Industry

Florida has become a choice setting for solar energy, with businesses small and large finding the right resources, conditions, partners to succeed.

New York: You Can Make It Here: Business in New York

New York: You Can Make It Here: Business in New York

New York’s leaders have instituted progressive economic development strategies that create an ideal environment for business development.

The 66 Latest Trends and Topics in Manufacturing Site Selection

The 66 Latest Trends and Topics in Manufacturing Site Selection

Location decisions for manufacturing plants are being influenced by a great number of current/emerging trends, including “shoring” decisions and predo...

Manufacturing Continues to Shine Amidst Other Economic Uncertainty

Manufacturing Continues to Shine Amidst Other Economic Uncertainty

AMT says manufacturing recovery continues and in 2013 expects to see an uptick as U.S. manufacturing continues momentum, reshoring more prevalent. Th...