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Trade & Industry Development Announces 2026 CiCi Award Winners

Trade & Industry Development Announces 2026 CiCi Award Winners

Trade & Industry Development, the leading publication dedicated to site selection for businesses, has announced the winners of its 2026 Corporate Inve...

agriculture

KS: Largest Mobile Agriculture Lab Makes its Debut in Southwest Kansas

Newman University in Wichita, Kan., is pleased to unveil its newest educational asset, the Smart Mobile Agriculture Lab. The over $1M climate-controll...

business development

AL: Birmingham Business Alliance Launches BHM IQ, to Strengthen Regional Business Growth

The Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA) announced the launch of BHM IQ, a new business intelligence initiative designed to strengthen the region's econ...

hospitality

OysterLink Survey: Hospitality Adds 44,000 Jobs in March With Second-Strongest Private Sector Growth

Leisure and hospitality added 44,000 jobs in March, marking its rebound from February’s loss of 11,000 jobs, according to OysterLink analysis of new d...

business

TX: Preliminary Analysis Indicates Texas Economy to Hit Record $2.9 Trillion

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the strength of the Texas economy as preliminary estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show the Texas ...

workplace

Gallup's Annual State of the Global Workplace Report: Global Employee Engagement Continues to Decline

In 2025, global employee engagement declined for the second year in row, as reported in Gallup’s annual State of the Global Workplace report, the worl...

workforce

Eagle Hill Employee Retention Index Indicates That U.S. Workers Are Staying Put

The latest Eagle Hill Consulting Employee Retention Index rose to 105.5 in the first quarter of 2026, up 0.5 points from the previous period and just ...

AI

Survey: More Than a Third of Workers Say They Rarely Check AI Output Before Using It

As AI quickly reshapes daily work, a growing share of employees are letting machine-generated output pass through with little to no human review. Acco...

tariffs

KPMG Tariff Survey: Businesses Navigate Declining Margins as 55% Plan Further Price Increases

One year after the imposition of significant U.S. tariffs reshaped global trade, new KPMG research stretching across a year of survey data finds U.S. ...

manufacturing

ISM Manufacturing PMI Report: Economic Activity Expands in March for 3rd Straight Month

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in March for the third consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest ISM®...