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May 2011

Cover Story

The 2010 Global Best to Invest Rankings

The Site Selection editors are pleased to present the third annual Global Best to Invest rankings.

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Top 10 Competitive States: Powerhouse In the Making

Since assuming office in 2008, Louisiana’s economic development team has focused on state competitiveness. It’s working.

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Top Groups: Extreme Makeovers

The top-performing economic development organizations had to overcome a lot in 2010. Here’s how they did it.

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Action and Reaction

Facility reuse, flexible production, consolidation and creative financing solutions characterized the Top Deals of 2010, chosen by Site Selection editors based on scale of capital investment and job creation, creativity in negotiations and incentives, regional economic impact, competition for the project and speed to market.

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Features

Steep Hill to Climb

The headlines about public-employees unions obscure another labor topic: The UAW’s new push to organize at foreign-owned automotive plants.

Dawn of an Era

When German silicon producer Wacker Chemie AG originally announced the selection of Cleveland, Tenn., as the site of a new US$1-billion, fully integrated polysilicon factory in February 2009, it represented the second solar industry announcement for the state that winter.

Big Science

There is a science to site selection. But rarely do the specifics of science itself so directly impact a location
choice.

Investment Profiles

Born Leader

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.

The Topeka Triangle

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

The Efficiency Quotient

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

Ad In: Indiana’s Logistics Advantage

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.

International

New Reliable

A January foreign direct investment update from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development found that, after a decline in 2009, FDI inflows to Southeast Asia were booming again in 2010

Heavy Duty

Wisconsin-based Manitowoc Cranes announced in February that it would establish its first Latin American manufacturing beachhead in Brazil.

Departments

Area Spotlights

Driven

Locomotion is Kentucky’s lead economic development vehicle.

Crafting a Comeback

A few years after finishing up a productive 14-year career as a tight end in the National Football League, Wesley Walls was looking to create a business in his hometown of Pontotoc, Miss

Legacy of Innovation Lives On

In her 1969 book “The Economy of Cities,” Jane Jacobs reminded her readers that 19th-century New England supplied the entire nation with everything

Material Evidence

South Carolina is rapidly emerging as a center for advanced materials manufacturing, especially in the development of composites. New companies are being attracted to the state from around the globe due in part to the state’s expertise in textiles.

The Future’s Up in the Air

From airplanes that run on renewable power to sharkskin-like material that blocks airborne bacteria, new technology is giving Colorado a lift.

State of Innovation

Gary Herbert became governor of Utah on Aug. 11, 2009, following the appointment of his predecessor, Jon Huntsman, as ambassador to China.

Economic Powerhouse

Studies reveal the potential impact of the Great Lakes region as a clean-energy manufacturing center.

Risk Insurance

New locations in Iowa emerge as safe investment havens for expanding companies needing to move quickly and efficiently.

Pure Manufacturing

Ohio is home to an emerging cluster of major battery and energy storage projects. BASF’s November 2010 announcement of a new-generation manufacturing facility in Elyria — a Cleveland suburb often viewed as a Rust Belt poster child — is a recent example.

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