Investment Profile

Just nine years remain before Vision 2020 — Malaysia’s blueprint for achieving fully industrialized status — is to take effect. Former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad set the Southeast Asian nation of 28 million people on the Vision 2020 course in 1991, complete with nine strategic societal challenges to be overcome in order to become fully developed by the end of the decade.

Even as Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman pushes legislation to advance business innovation and work-force recruitment, his state is showing signs of harvesting the kind of talented entrepreneurs he envisions.

With a seemingly endless string of disasters plaguing the world in the last year, most notably the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, images of the devastating floods that swept across much of Queensland, Australia, have faded from memory for most not directly affected.

Three unique location assets form the foundation of future economic development in the capital region of Kansas.

To understand how rapidly the chemical and plastics manufacturing sectors are changing in Germany, all you have to do is talk to Ralf Irmert.

Only a handful of Midwestern states offer companies the logistics advantage of a northern water route via the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and a southern water route via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.

The founder of AutoNation, Extended Stay America and Waste Management Inc. enjoys his daily commute. He likes the view from his South Florida office even better.

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.

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.

Shapoorji Pallonji, a leading construction and realty force in India, is adding a network of IT parks in the Subcontinent to its international portfolio of signature properties. Some SP Infocity parks have special economic zone (SEZ) status to meet growing demand from global players in the IT/ITeS sector.

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.

What do a major international automotive manufacturer and one of the world’s top-selling furniture companies have in common?