Next Mission: Transmission
Development of renewable energy resources is increasingly critical to meeting demand for non-carbon-based energy
May 2010
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The 2009 Global Best to Invest Rankings
Best to Invest: The 2009 Global Best to Invest Rankings
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Top Groups: Staying the Course
While other community agencies retrenched in 2009,
the winning organizations redoubled their economic development efforts and grabbed the prize.
Top Deals: New Purpose
Our Top Deals are determined by level of private-sector capital investment, degree of high-value jobs, creativity in negotiations and incentives, regional economic impact, competition for the project and speed to market.
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Competitiveness Award: Who’s Afraid of Virginia?
A top-10 finish in Site Selection’s Governor’s Cup facilities race helped the Commonwealth of Virginia secure its first-ever Competitiveness Award
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World Power
A wide ranging strategic partnership announced in April between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG
Gone to (GM) Seed
In the agricultural world, GM has nothing to do with automobiles.
Investment Profiles
Hungary Fills the Sweet Spot of Europe
What do a major international automotive manufacturer and one of the world’s top-selling furniture companies have in common?
Minds Over Matter
In Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, scientists are developing breakthrough technologies that are revolutionizing the treatment of neurological disorders.
All Aboard
“You can’t be plain vanilla and win.”
International
Cities of Opportunity
Analysis used to arrive at Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings produced another benefit — an opportunity to shed light on investment in European metros that don’t often make headlines.
Good Food = Good Growth
Southeast Asia: Good Food = Good Growth
Open Arms
Québec’s Minister of International Relations Pierre Arcand looks to new ties to unbind the province from its traditional industrial past.
Island Whirl
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown proclaimed in January that his government’s support for offshore wind energy has anchored the U.K. as a global leader
Departments
Project Finance: Better to Buy?
As even the word “investor” evokes a negative public perception in today’s economy, the positives attached to “owner-occupier” are building
Area Spotlights
Two Plus Two Equals More
No pun intended, but Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) on I-85 near Greenville is on a roll
Securing the Future
When hundreds of Sioux City area rescue workers responded to the crash landing of United Airlines Flight 232 on July 19, 1989, they had no idea that the lessons learned from that event would one day lead the Iowa community to become a national role model for disaster preparedness and recovery.
Start Me Up
Hospital-acquired infections are the fourth largest killer in the U.S., with one of the major sources of infection being catheters.
Signature Deal
Boasting more than US$27 billion in revenues and more than 4,200 employees at such firms as Kindred Healthcare
A Blueprint for ‘Regional Transformation’
If one could simply light a spark under the economic potential resident in the Great Lakes region
Renewable Promises
Hydro-Québec’s clean hydropower and plans to grow its influence on both sides of the border hold vast potential for economic development in all of Atlantica, and New England in particular.
Higher Tech
Colorado continues to embrace a leadership role in renewable energy.
‘Transformational’
V&M Star, the U.S. division of Paris-based Vallourec & Mannesmann, plans to invest US$650 million and create 350 jobs at a new steel rolling mill in Youngstown, Ohio.
A Shot At Brilliance
In September 2009, Yung “Benjamin” Yeung, the Chinese-American chairman of Far East Golden Resources’ company Hybrid Kinetic Motors Corp., announced that the new company had selected Baldwin County, Ala., for a new US$4.3-billion plant to build natural gas-powered hybrid electric vehicles.