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Kentucky: Ideal Location and Logistical Advantages Keep Kentucky’s Companies Connected...

Kentucky: Ideal Location and Logistical Advantages Keep Kentucky’s Companies Connected to the World

Blessed with a central location, low cost of living and a pro-business climate, Kentucky has become an increasingly popular choice for the logistics i...

Logistics on the Fast Track in Georgia

Logistics on the Fast Track in Georgia

Companies moving or expanding their businesses have long had the state of Georgia on their mind. A unique combination of transportation assets, a qual...

Alabama: A Better Place to Build a Better World

Alabama: A Better Place to Build a Better World

It’s not hard to see why Alabama is a better place to build a better world. Alabama recognizes that successful economic development requires a complet...

Texas’ Economy Continues to Outpace the Nation

Texas’ Economy Continues to Outpace the Nation

Measuring up to Texas is no small task. While the national economy begins showing signs of recovery, the Lone Star State has continued to shine throug...

Economy Growing in Kansas

Economy Growing in Kansas

n terms of recruiting new businesses to Kansas, Fiscal Year 2010 came in like a lion … and it went out like one, too. In fact, Fiscal Year 2010 was...

The Emerging Impacts of Energy Cost on Industry and Communities

The Emerging Impacts of Energy Cost on Industry and Communities

Energy may be a hot topic, but are certain industries and communities about to get burned? As the global demand for energy drives up cost, the locatio...

Getting Straight to Business with Ready and Certified Sites

Getting Straight to Business with Ready and Certified Sites

The growing demand for industrial parks and other sites that are “shovel-ready,” “ready to go,” as the Federal Highway Administration refers to them, ...

Re-Shoring

Re-Shoring

A January 2010 Grant Thornton survey, published in Supply Chain Solutions, concluded that 51 percent of companies that offshored found no financial ad...

Making it in America: The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Program Continues to Enhance Operating...

Making it in America: The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Program Continues to Enhance Operating Margins of U.S.-Based Manufacturing Operations

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program continues to serve U.S.-based manufacturing operations by making a positive contribution to their operating margi...

What in the Factory? - Answers!

What in the Factory? - Answers!

Here are the answers from our "What in the Factory?" feature in the September/October Manufacturing issue.