October 23, 2012
Staying close to the supply chain of skills guided recent expansion and consolidation location decisions for at least three technology companies in the northern Boston, Massachusetts suburbs: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Red Hat, and Entegris.
October 16, 2012
Portion control has become a big business for cheese manufacturing company Bel Brands USA. Sales have more than doubled over the past four years and sales of the company’s Mini Babybel products have tripled during that time period. Bel Brands USA also has plants in Leitchfield, Ky., and Little Chute, Wis.
October 3, 2012
Wisconsin has a history in the aviation supply chain. But it now appears poised to grow into a significant center of aviation manufacturing as two companies with ambitious plans, but only mockup aircraft thus far, hope to develop major assembly facilities
October 2, 2012
Nevada leaders rethink their economic development efforts as the state adjusts to a changing economy.
October 2, 2012
Logistics offers an economic beacon for the region.
September 24, 2012
Today’s pathways to financial success lie in innovative, intellect-driven fields. In the South, our heroes are frequently found on the college gridiron. But can entrepreneurs and technological innovators be heroes too? Can our brightest techies make it here at home, or must they travel to California or Massachusetts to seek their fortunes?
September 24, 2012
Winston-Salem blends its tobacco past with a biotech future. After an 18-month, US$100-million makeover, two former R.J. Reynolds tobacco warehouses in downtown Winston-Salem re-opened in February 2012 as a 242,000-sq.-ft. (22,482-sq.-m.) state-of-the art biotech center that houses medical research departments affiliated with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and an incubator for fledgling biotech firms.
September 18, 2012
‘Community Fit’ seals a bottling plant deal.
September 17, 2012
In 1859, a well was drilled in quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania for the express purpose of finding and extracting rock oil from the ground. This was to be the fuel for lamps. It became much, much more.
September 10, 2012
Some tech companies are eschewing Silicon Valley for the quality of life a few miles north. Newly hired software engineers are already busy crafting code for the “Industrial Internet” in GE’s new Global Software Center in San Ramon, Calif. When GE announced its plans for the center late last year, it planned to hire 400 software professionals. The project is going so well that the iconic company is considering doubling that number in the coming years.