Investment Profile

Five years after Hurricane Rita delivered a devastating blow to the Lake Charles area and surrounding communities, British Petroleum accidentally unleashed a gushing flow of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in deepwater off the coast of Louisiana.

California sites mainly make today’s site-location short lists if the companies looking for space simply must be in California.

American and international companies increasingly say they prefer a Saxony-Anhalt business location in east central Germany when setting up shop in Europe, according to three influential studies released recently.

Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP), Malaysia’s first high-tech industrial park, opened in 1996 as a key component in the nation’s plan to be fully industrialized by 2020.

When an area lands a major logistics project from a leading global retailer, site location experts take notice.

Entrepreneurial companies launched in Topeka, Kan., are testing the normal limits of growth by turning their manufacturing plants into idea factories.

Germany’s economy has proven more recession-proof than most of the rest of Europe, with economic growth rising past the 2 percent mark in recent weeks.

There's more to making a zone work than just drawing a line around it and calling it special.

By all indications, Georgia’s talent base is at the top of its game, higher education is a primary factor, and companies around the globe are paying close attention.

Ameren’s economic development team bridges two states to help employers and communities prosper.

Nothing short of a "radical change in our approach to economic development" is required to achieve the new Malaysian government’s growth objectives, the primary one being to turn the nation into a high-income economy.

Kansas and its capital city, Topeka, are showing up on some lists that plenty of bigger cities and states wish they were on.

A new, master-planned business city fast-tracks MNCs’ new Indian operations.

Can a former automotive assembly plant drive technology transfer and economic development transformation throughout an entire state and region?

Rick Wienckowski remembers a time when companies seeking support for expansion plans weren’t always greeted warmly in the capital city of Kansas.

In Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, scientists are developing breakthrough technologies that are revolutionizing the treatment of neurological disorders.

“You can’t be plain vanilla and win.”

That Southwest Louisiana is vitally important to America’s energy needs is without question.

Dr. Jorg Bagdahn surrounds himself daily with the keenest minds in photovoltaic research and development. He’s hoping that model replicates itself in similar choices by executives at world-leading solar energy manufacturing companies.

Among the companies to have found both advantages in the Pelepas Free Zone at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) are Flextronics, JST Connectors, Schenker Logistics, CIBA Vision and many others. MNCs with locations at PTP, in the Iskandar Development Region in Malaysia’s southernmost point, seek a southeast Asian base from which to serve the region cost-effectively and efficiently.

A region with thousands of college graduates, many in the life sciences sector, now has the work force for the jobs requiring technical skills.

Korea’s economy is exhibiting encouraging signs as 2009 draws to a close. FDI announcements for the first nine months reached US$8 billion, up 8 percent from 2008.