November 22, 2016
Letter from the Governor: Louisiana: Stronger Than Ever
How Louisiana is coming back stronger after the 1000 year flood.
Departments
November 17, 2016
Editor’s View: Here’s the Deal: Business Climates Matter
Eight of the top 10 are Southeastern, and that’s not a new phenomenon anymore — just an affirmation that their formula for attracting investment is working.
September 13, 2016
Editor’s View: Audience Participation
Reviewing the results of our recent reader survey, which garnered the strongest rate of participation in years.
July 6, 2016
Editor’s View: Brexit Vote: ‘A Different World’
Making sense of the Brexit vote and the effect on the UK for foreign direct investment.
May 19, 2016
Ladies First
Texas is dedicated to becoming the No. 1 state for women-owned businesses.
May 6, 2016
Unconventional Wisdom: Still Open for Business
The jury is out on whether boycotts and bluster truly impact a state’s business climate.
May 4, 2016
Editor’s View: Economic Development’s New Math
The same location criteria that drove your site decisions last year still apply this year. But the textbook has changed.
March 10, 2016
IAMC Insider: The Trust Factor
Successful service provider relationships; the industrial surplus property challenge; and corporate cybersecurity tips.
March 3, 2016
Editor’s View: You’ll Know It When You Hear It
Congratulations again to Texas and Kentucky for their 2015 Governors Cups
January 7, 2016
Editor’s View: Your Credentials, Please
All content in this issue will give you food for thought as your location discernment for 2016 gets underway.
December 30, 2015
IAMC Report: Farm-to-Factory-to-Table
A group of disruptive trends will alter the locate-design-build-operate calculus for food processors as they consider the nature of future facilities.
July 7, 2015
Unconventional Wisdom: Fun Homes
Decision-makers explain why they’re moving their companies downtown. Others see downtowns coming to them.
May 18, 2015
Unconventional Wisdom: Good State or Bad State?
Site selectors offer their thoughts to companies and states navigating the dicey waters of economic development and social legislation.
March 19, 2015
Unconventional Wisdom: Time For A Reshoring Reality Check
We’ve all heard about the resurgence in US manufacturing by now, and we are familiar with examples of the reshoring phenomenon now several years old.
March 5, 2015
Unconventional Wisdom: The DIY Approach To Site Research:
Why pay someone else to do something you can do for yourself?
November 24, 2014
Unconventional Wisdom: Raise the Visa Cap Already!
In 2013, 10,000 high tech positions at five high tech companies — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm — went unfilled due to a lack of qualified US candidates.
September 16, 2014
Unconventional Wisdom: Jobs Lure Hipsters. Hype Doesn’t.
Finally, clear thinking — and census data analysis — is being applied to the notion that US cities are brimming with recently graduated millennials and boomers.
July 14, 2014
Unconventional Wisdom: Regardless of One’s Politics
States are discovering the chilling effect of anti-gay-marriage legislation.
May 13, 2014
Unconventional Wisdom: Too Much Fun
Is all the talk about collaboration, synergy and happy accidents in open office plans more about projecting an image than imagining projects?
March 25, 2014
Unconventional Wisdom: Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Vine, Instagram … the list goes on. Social media is everywhere, and it seems as if everyone is using it, including economic developers.
December 16, 2013
Trustbelt Report: Building a Better Climate
When Kenall selected Kenosha, Wis., for a new advanced manufacturing investment, the facility location decision reaffirmed the wisdom of recent changes to the Wisconsin business climate.
November 4, 2013
Janus Report: Mitigating Risk
“Site Selection is all about risk management and risk analysis.”
October 21, 2013
Tenth Anniversary of The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment 2013 Forum Fever
As August holidaymakers return from vacation, fully energised and ready for the next busy months, preparations for the Tenth Anniversary edition of The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment 2013 are being cranked up another notch in the London and Shanghai offices of Red Hot Locations.
January 24, 2013
Locations Report: Oman
The Sultanate of Oman lies at the eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, boasting a stunning landscape combing the desert, the mountains, plains and sea.