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Investment Profile

May 9, 2012

Sectors Of Opportunity

The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) is leading new efforts to facilitate foreign direct investment into key industry sectors in order to meet objectives set forth in the Economic Transformation Programme by 2020. The plan stresses increased investment in several sectors that will help transform Malaysia into a higher-income economy complete with the infrastructure and labor supply necessary to sustain the target sectors into the future.

May 9, 2012

The Time Machine

From automotive manufacturing to the chemicals and life-sciences sectors, few factors are more important to global competitiveness than speed to market. In fact, for some industrial companies, the presence of a superior transportation and logistics network is the most critical component of all. In Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, logistics is at the heart of the state’s business growth strategy — and a world-class transportation network is the driver.

May 8, 2012

Bright Path Forward

Today Ak-Chin Indian Community and business leaders are reclaiming land. But their eyes are on the bright path to the future, as they seek to foster enterprise instead of entitlement.

March 29, 2012

Changing Minds

Greater Fort Lauderdale alters perceptions of business executives around the world. Payoff comes in headquarters, plants and other expansions including a British tobacco company.

March 22, 2012

That’s The Spirit

A recent investment by Spirit AeroSystems at the North Carolina Global TransPark in Kinston is paving the way for a local aerospace cluster that could soon number in the thousands of workers. No other location had GTP’s blend of logistics and work-force attributes, says a Spirit executive central to the location decision.

March 14, 2012

Taking Care of Business

Workforce development programs make San Bernardino County a manufacturing magnet in Southern California. When California Steel Industries’ Brett Guge explains why his company invested nearly a billion dollars into operations in San Bernardino County, he attributes his firm’s strategic direction to one primary factor.

March 7, 2012

The Game Changer

The Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana region supplies energy to the world and skilled workers for expanding companies. Take the elements that are critical to community prosperity — water, transportation, energy, industrial know-how, and willing and able workers — and combine them into a strategy for economic success … that is exactly what Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana did.

January 18, 2012

ESBAS

Located in beautiful Izmir, one of the principal cities on the Mediterranean Sea and Turkey's primary port for exports, ESBAS is home to global powerhouses like Hugo Boss, Fokker Elmo, Pratt & Whitney, PFW, Delphi Diesel, Gates, Mahle, Delphi Packard, Eldor Electronics, Aero and Cummins Inc. Together the companies located within ESBAS generate more than US$5 billion annually in manufacturing and trade.

January 12, 2012

Fertile Ground, Active Minds

Centuries of innovation cement Thuringia as leader in advanced manufacturing. Bosch Solar Energy AG has more than tripled the size of its work force here in only three years.

December 6, 2011

A Sweet Deal

Mars Chocolate North America likes to say that “Snickers really satisfies.” The 100-year-old confectionary company may soon be saying that “Topeka really satisfies Mars.”
The city of Topeka, Kan., received a sweet treat of its own when Mars announced a $250-million, 200-job plant investment in the capital community.

November 10, 2011

How To Fast-Track a Shanghai Operation

Executives at small and mid-sized companies assigned the task of opening a Shanghai office or facility might find that assignment daunting if it’s the company’s first foray into the Chinese market.

October 5, 2011

Healing the World

The biggest breakthrough in fighting the global battle against diabetes didn’t come in a lab in San Diego, Boston or one of the other well-known U.S. life-science clusters.

September 20, 2011

Powerful Partnerships

In Florida and the Carolinas, Progress Energy’s network ties various groups together to get deals done.

September 13, 2011

Ahead of the Curve

“They always seem to be there when we need them,” says Jim E. Mentesti, president of the Great River Economic Development Foundation (GREDF) in Quincy and Adams County, Ill., when asked about his community’s partnership with Ameren Corporation.

September 7, 2011

Safe at Home

Expanding firms find access to capital, knowledge workers and pro-growth incentives in Greater Philadelphia.

August 30, 2011

The Deep End Of the Labor Pool

Just nine years remain before Vision 2020 — Malaysia’s blueprint for achieving fully industrialized status — is to take effect. Former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad set the Southeast Asian nation of 28 million people on the Vision 2020 course in 1991, complete with nine strategic societal challenges to be overcome in order to become fully developed by the end of the decade.

July 11, 2011

A Winning Bid For Innovation

Even as Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman pushes legislation to advance business innovation and work-force recruitment, his state is showing signs of harvesting the kind of talented entrepreneurs he envisions.

June 2, 2011

Born Leader

With a seemingly endless string of disasters plaguing the world in the last year, most notably the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, images of the devastating floods that swept across much of Queensland, Australia, have faded from memory for most not directly affected.

May 26, 2011

The Topeka Triangle

Three unique location assets form the foundation of future economic development in the capital region of Kansas.

May 18, 2011

The Efficiency Quotient

To understand how rapidly the chemical and plastics manufacturing sectors are changing in Germany, all you have to do is talk to Ralf Irmert.

May 11, 2011

Ad In: Indiana’s Logistics Advantage

Only a handful of Midwestern states offer companies the logistics advantage of a northern water route via the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and a southern water route via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.