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Update on the Food Industry

Update on the Food Industry

Despite dire predictions of escalating food price inflation in the wake of the busiest hurricane season on record in 2005, the inflation rate for food...

Wisconsin Wants Your Business

Wisconsin Wants Your Business

A strong dedication to quality and a long history of economic stability sets Wisconsin apart as an exceptional place to live and do business. Among it...

The Retail Industry

The Retail Industry

Change is facing the new and unknown. The competitive nature of the retail industry requires that it deal with change on an ongoing basis through inno...

Oklahoma: Pro-Business Environment Offers Opportunity for Growth

Oklahoma: Pro-Business Environment Offers Opportunity for Growth

There are a number of reasons Oklahoma continues to make the location “short list” of some of America’s fastest growing corporations, including its hi...

Texas: A Superior Place to Do Business

Texas: A Superior Place to Do Business

With a tax burden that is 32 percent lower than the national average, ground-breaking economic development investment funds, its own power grid, histo...

Retail Distribution Center Site Selection

Retail Distribution Center Site Selection

Consumer demands, global sourcing challenges and limited capacity across multiple transportation modes force every retailer to take continuous looks a...

Future Bright for the Warehouse-Based Logistics Industry

Future Bright for the Warehouse-Based Logistics Industry

Despite business pressures from record fuel prices, skyrocketing health care costs and new technologies, warehouse-based logistics firms are thriving ...

Mississippi Proves Tough Contender in the Development Game

Mississippi Proves Tough Contender in the Development Game

With recent headline-grabbing locations and expansions like Nissan, Northrop Grumman, FedEx and, most recently, SeverCorr, Mississippi has been on a h...

U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Help U.S. Based Manufacturers Stay in Business

U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Help U.S. Based Manufacturers Stay in Business

The use of the Foreign-Trade Zones program by U.S.-based manufacturers of computer-related peripheral products provides an instructive example of how ...

Tennessee: Serving Up Southern Hospitality Industrial-Style

Tennessee: Serving Up Southern Hospitality Industrial-Style

Taking a look inside Tennessee is like opening a box of chocolates. There’s an assortment and variety that can only be discovered when one takes a bit...