Cintas, an Ohio-based business services company, will use a $20 million capital investment to open a new regional operations center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Cintas is the nation’s leader in providing specialized services to businesses such as uniforms, supplies and safety materials. The new site is expected to create 144 jobs at an average salary of $65,000. The project will result in a significant source of tax revenue, as Murfreesboro is projected to earn $1 million in taxes from the Cintas location by its fifth year of operation.
Russian poultry company Cherkizovo Group has received government support to begin construction on the second phase of its turkey production site in Tambov, Russia. The $63 million investment project is intended to increase the company’s production capacity by 50%. The project will include the construction of a new nursery and finisher sites in the Tambov Region’s Pervomaysky District by mid-2021.
Foreign Policy’s Keith Johnson and James Palmer provide a crisp “Debunker” of the theory that Evo Morales’s ouster in Bolivia was tied to the hunger for the country’s lithium. The story hinges in part on a site selection derailed by protests in the country’s Potosí region. For reference, see our coverage of South America’s lithium potential and reality from eight years ago.
As Foreign Policy points out, there’s a difference between resources and recoverable reserves.
Archived map image courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey
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