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Doing Business in Virginia in the Global Logistics, Metals and Plastics Industries

Doing Business in Virginia in the Global Logistics, Metals and Plastics Industries

For more than four centuries, Virginia has built a legacy on the spirit of enterprise. A strong, educated workforce, an excellent quality of life, a s...

The State of Manufacturing in the U.S.

The State of Manufacturing in the U.S.

The U.S. economy, including its manufacturing sector, continues to face numerous issues including the volatile financial and credit markets, the housi...

Ports Grapple with Throughput Challenges

Ports Grapple with Throughput Challenges

Once a great ship is in motion, it tends to stay in motion. It will neither slow nor change direction very quickly. And if that is true of a single sh...

Georgia: For Businesses Wishing to Compete on a Global Scale

Georgia: For Businesses Wishing to Compete on a Global Scale

Georgia is the ideal place for businesses who wish to compete on a global scale. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a large corporate entity, this is w...

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...