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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...

Insights: Emerging Support Services Location Strategies

Insights: Emerging Support Services Location Strategies

The emerging trend of re-shoring manufacturing back to North America is spilling over into certain support operations that include back office, shared...

Sustainable Facility Management

Sustainable Facility Management: Insights From IFMA

An organization’s contributions to society are judged on more than the basis of the quality of goods and services produced. Today, the care shown to e...

Trends and Factors Impacting Site Considerations for the Food and Agriculture Industries

Trends and Factors Impacting Site Considerations for the Food and Agriculture Industries

Cutting out fat is a tried and true way to manage tough times, and has been the impetus for many food and beverage projects over several decades. More...

Location Strategies in the Life Sciences Industries

Location Strategies in the Life Sciences Industries: Trends, Factors and Process

Geography may not seem to be an obvious element in the success of a bio-science enterprise. Yet consider all of the cities, regions, states and countr...