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AIA: Strengthening Safeguards Against Counterfeit Parts

AIA: Strengthening Safeguards Against Counterfeit Parts

Each year aerospace products safely transport billions of passengers and billions of dollars worth of cargo. They reliably perform national security m...

Mississippi - Auto and Aerospace Going Strong

Auto and Aerospace Going Strong in Mississippi

Mississippi has long been a favorable location for business, and companies in the aerospace, automotive, clean energy, steel, defense and distribution...

There is Simply No Place Like Iowa

There is Simply No Place Like Iowa

While Iowa produces a tenth of the U.S. food supply and is known for its agrarian heritage, the product of the state's manufacturing industry is more ...

2011 CiCi Awards - Community Impact Top 15

2011 CiCi Awards - Community Impact Top 15

Many of the companies that receive an award in our Community Impact section of the 6th Annual CiCi Awards are making an extremely large capital invest...

6th Annual CiCi Awards

2011 CiCi Awards Introduction

The recipients of our 6th Annual Corporate Investment & Community Impact (CiCi) Awards are feted for either the monetary size of their investments in ...

2011 CiCi Awards - Corporate Investment Top 15

2011 CiCi Awards - Corporate Investment Top 15

The 15 companies we honor here with our sixth annual Corporate Investment Award (the first “Ci” in CiCi) forged full-speed ahead with monumental devel...

Site Selection: Nordic Windpower

Site Selection: Nordic Windpower – Creative Strategy Implementation

If you ask economic development professionals to identify their region’s target industries, it is likely that one industry mentioned will be clean-tec...

Considerations and Methodologies for Corporate Headquarters Relocation

Considerations and Methodologies for Corporate Headquarters Relocation

Major headquarters relocation projects are somewhat rare, but can be high profile decisions. They capture the attention of the business world and the ...

Is Footprint Optimization Right For You?

Is Footprint Optimization Right For You?

From bankers to bureaucrats, energy execs to manufacturers, the term “Footprint Optimization” is being uttered with increasing frequency in C-suites a...

Companies Balance Cost Efficiencies Against Growth

Companies Balance Cost Efficiencies Against Growth: CoreNet Global Analysis

The management of large real estate portfolios used to be equated mostly with leasing strategies, but it’s come to mean a lot more since the 2009 rece...