Investment Profile

The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) now administers the state’s Shovel Ready Program, working with communities around the state to ensure that its inventory of economic-development-ready sites is current and accurate.

Located in the western end of Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe, the City of Hamilton has emerged as one of the premier destinations in Canada and all of North America for new investment — all within the course of a decade.

When the world's fastest-growing retailer needed a logistics solution in America's largest consumer market, it looked no further than San Bernardino County, Calif.

One first-place finish in a state business attractiveness ranking is noteworthy.

Why establish a new Asian operation without local partners who can facilitate the process at every turn?

Malaysia offers an ideal ecosystem for the medical devices industry at a watershed moment for Southeast Asia.

The industrial cradle of Central Germany provides the lifeblood of manufacturing - the critical ingredients of chemistry and plastics - that keeps factories around the world humming.

Rapidly escalating demand for new data centers puts added pressure on site selectors to find qualified locations.

Dozens of projects engaged with moving goods have recently made good moves to Greater Toledo.

The state that invented the Model T Ford, HP printer and Gerber baby food is now reinventing itself.

Companies large and small are betting big on an expected economic resurgence in a Florida region known more for its muck than its money.

For well over a decade, Malaysia has championed the attraction of global IT companies and the cultivating of domestic high-tech enterprises through its MSC Malaysia ICT initiative, which is administered by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) Sdn Bhd. MDeC works to empower companies and communities with ICT services and resources and facilitates the country’s goal of becoming a knowledge-based economy.

Few things get companies as excited as waving goodbye to corporate taxes.

For four decades, the electrical and electronics (E&E) sector has been Malaysia's industrial bread and butter - a foundational sector that has only grown in importance as this Southeast Asian nation marches toward its goal of becoming a high-income economy by 2020. Along the way, Malaysia's government has cultivated the sector in such a way that it keeps pace with investing companies' higher-value E&E activities, including R&D and integrated circuit design and development, keeping them in Malaysia, as most of the 24 member companies of the Malaysian American Electronics Industry (MAEI) association can attest.

If you're not familiar with Chambersburg, New Castle or Sayre, Pa., or have somehow missed the turns for Indiana, Sunbury, East Stroudsburg or Meadville, you might need to readjust your navigation settings.

Elected four times to serve as governor from 1983 to 1999, Branstad left office 14 years ago as Iowa's longest-serving chief executive.

Northwest Georgia's industrial development reputation aims to be as multifaceted as its landscape, and as rich as its history. But if one thread continues to run through the region, it's thread itself.

Powering one of America's most important automotive manufacturing regions is just one of the many tasks of Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative.

With a work force ranked among the nation's best, the No. 1 public school system in the U.S., world-class academic and research institutions and a competitive business environment, Maryland is an ideal place for companies to grow and thrive.

Baker Hughes' Asia Pacific division stretches from India to New Zealand, so the Houston-based global oil and gas services giant (58,000 employees and revenues in excess of $20 billion) had lots of options with respect to a regional headquarters location.

Private Jet Charter, a London-based company that arranges upscale chartered flights for clients around the world, could have chosen virtually any major market in the U.S. for its North American headquarters.

Iroko Pharmaceuticals was little more than a seed five years ago. But it planted itself in two of the most fertile growth media for life sciences: Greater Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

When Cheney Brothers Inc. needed room to expand, Florida Power & Light Company delivered not just the electricity but also the deal-sealing resources that made sure the company kept its food distribution business growing in its home base of Florida.