Investor Watch: July 05, 2023

AMERICA’S BEST COUNTIES

Independence Day may now be in the rear-view mirror, but these leading counties can keep waving their flags as the top corporate facility attractors in the nation, according to the inaugural edition of a new Site Selection ranking.

2023 SUSTAINABILITY RANKINGS

“Sustainability is paramount to a future that enriches life for all,” one executive tells us in our 10th annual Sustainability Rankings of countries, U.S. states and U.S. metros, based on a unique index of factors and data sets.

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Two recent publications offer penetrating insights into how to address location aspects of supply chain challenges. First, in an April post from Esri, Cindy Elliott “explains how location intelligence, drawn from geographic information systems (GIS) technology, points companies toward stability in today’s supply chain.” More recently, on June 21, the Project 2049 Institute and the US-Taiwan Business Council published a report from their joint project to examine vulnerabilities in the semiconductor supply chain and potential implications of supply chain disruptions, “with a particular focus on Taiwan as a crucial partner for the U.S. in the semiconductor sector.”

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Margaret Rose, Site Selection’s director of sales & marketing for Custom Content, made this photo (top) from Artist Point in Yellowstone National Park last week. This week she visited the Tullahoma, Tennessee, home of her mother Kathryn who last year made a painting of that very same vista (bottom) from a photo a fellow member of the Rotary had given her. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is “roughly 20 miles long, more than 1,000 feet deep, and 1,500 to 4,000 feet wide,” says the National Park Service (NPS). “Early writing and art about Yellowstone aroused the interest of the world and resulted in its designation as the world’s first national park. Thomas Moran’s sketches and paintings of the Yellowstone region, including the Grand Canyon, captured the imagination of the public and Congress,” which in 1872 paid Moran $10,000 (equivalent to nearly $250,000 today) for an oil painting of the canyon “but allocated $0 for the new park’s budget that year,” NPS curtly notes.