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The opening decade of the automotive industry’s second century is evaporating any notion that the sector is a mature, smokestack industry.  Private eq...

Arkansas’ No. 1 export is aircraft and spacecraft. Approximately 10,000 Arkansans work in aerospace occupations such as aircraft parts and components...

The U.S. automotive industry is vital to our country’s economic health. There are approximately 7 million people who depend on the industry for employ...

Automotive suppliers represent a significant portion of the manufacturing workforce in many states. In fact, depending on what NAICS codes are include...

Two forces shape minority manufacturing in America – demographic dynamic shifts in the consumer driven supply chain and strategic sourcing business ma...

Aviation pioneer Ben Epps flew the first powered airplane in Georgia in 1907. Two years later, Ford Motor Company began building automobiles in the st...

There is a familiar saying: Chance favors the prepared mind. The same could be said of mega sites. A mega site, most simply, is an industrial site enc...

Among the opening articles in this issue, Kevin Mayer covers the relatively new phenomenon of prepared mega sites (Chance Favors the Prepared Mega Sit...

The job of a corporate real estate executive certainly isn’t getting any easier. With more viable real estate options in increasingly diverse markets,...

Ford Motor Company — Southeastern Michigan. Facing intense global competition, decreased market share, rising operating costs, and excess U.S. industr...