ntario Premier Dalton McGuinty wasn’t shy about supporting Ford Motor Company‘s proposed US$818-million expansion. In fact, after his province authorized $82 million in incentives for Ford in mid-April of 2004, the premier threw down the gauntlet. “We have put our money where our mouth is,” McGuinty said. “Now it’s time for the federal […]
When the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania (ESWP) first convened in
1880, present in the room were Andrew Carnegie, George Westinghouse, George Ferris, Alcoa founder Alfred E. Hunt and William Metcalf, an engineer and draftsman with Fort Pitt Foundry and Crescent Steel Co. who was also the president of the Duquesne Club, a premier social club that still exists today in downtown Pittsburgh.
urope enjoyed a return to high levels of foreign direct investment in 2004 (over US$250 billion, including non-EU figures) and remains the most attractive global zone. According to Ernst & Young’s European Investment Monitor (EIM), researched and powered by Oxford Intelligence, FDI is increasingly driven by European cross-border investment, with the U.K. remaining the dominant […]