July 30, 2013
State of Reinvention
The state that invented the Model T Ford, HP printer and Gerber baby food is now reinventing itself.
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July 30, 2013
Faith, Fire and Falcons
What do the world's largest retailer, an entrepreneurial steel industry executive and a French jet manufacturer all have in common?
July 30, 2013
Next Generation
In early January, automotive visionary and entrepreneur Paul Elio announced that his fledgling company Elio Motors would employ 1,500 people in producing Elio's cute, green and ultra-high-mileage three-wheeled car in the giant former General Motors facility in Shreveport that used to produce the intimidating and gas-guzzling Hummer.
July 26, 2013
Where to Get Vertical
The American public may be familiar with the two most heavily used U.S. government-owned launch complexes: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida (located on the same piece of land as NASA's Kennedy Space Center, from where the Space Shuttle launched) and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
July 25, 2013
Working With Business, Gatwick Diamond Looks to Shine in London Airport Debates
Jeremy Taylor has an unconventional way of opening monthly networking meetings of Gatwick Diamond Business, a 350-member group promoting the area around London’s second largest airport.
July 25, 2013
A Place for Pioneers
Physicist Frank Oppenheimer, the brother of Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer, didn't say exactly that when he founded the first-of-its-kind hands-on museum the Exploratorium in the late 1960s. But you know he wanted to.
July 24, 2013
Window on the Waves
For a surfer, the green room is the best place to be. It's when you're inside the barrel of a wave, and the water gives the light a greenish, otherworldly glow. "A great place to be," says one surfing glossary.
July 24, 2013
Global or Bust
Paris-based healthcare and pharmaceutical giant Sanofi last month announced an expansion of its partnership with GDF SUEZ energy services subsidiary Cofely that will implement primarily renewable energy production and distribution systems worth up to €80 million at Sanofi industrial sites around the world over the next five years.
July 24, 2013
Hybrid Solution
Last week Princeton, N.J.–based Bristol-Myers Squibb became the latest to latch on to a life sciences wave striking Florida.
July 23, 2013
Fertile Fields
Companies large and small are betting big on an expected economic resurgence in a Florida region known more for its muck than its money.
July 23, 2013
The Perfect Storm Aftermath
When Gov. Chris Christie and his family cut the world’s longest ribbon for the grand reopening of the Jersey Shore on May 24 in Seaside Heights, the event signaled more than the return of tourism to New Jersey’s once-devastated coastline.
July 23, 2013
Where is Nestlé NotInvesting?
Someone tell Nestlé that Europe's economy is on the ropes. In the past 18 months, the Vevey, Switzerland-based nutrition and food services giant has invested in new facilities in France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland — and three in the UK (not to mention China, Jamaica, the UAE, Malaysia and Argentina, among other places). It’s also expanding a Purina pet food factory in Bük, Hungary, adding 150 jobs to that site.
July 22, 2013
Down Under On Top
My father once mused that Australia and New Zealand exist so the rest of the world has something to envy.
July 22, 2013
New Kid on the Block
Croatia is the newest country to join the European Union (EU), which it did on 1 July, 2013. But investors still need to be careful where they tread. Croatia is full of history, but as it enters a new chapter, investors will find themselves surrounded by minefields if they do not stay on their guard.
July 17, 2013
‘Our Clients Prefer a Malaysia Location’
For well over a decade, Malaysia has championed the attraction of global IT companies and the cultivating of domestic high-tech enterprises through its MSC Malaysia ICT initiative, which is administered by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) Sdn Bhd. MDeC works to empower companies and communities with ICT services and resources and facilitates the country’s goal of becoming a knowledge-based economy.
July 16, 2013
Answering The Call
The information and communication technology industry accounts for three percent of total U.S. electricity consumption, half of which is attributed to telecommunications. With this is mind, Verizon has been looking at ways to power its facilities using reliable and sustainable technologies.
July 16, 2013
More pellets, please!: EU subsidies for biomass will generate more investments in the US wood industry and intensify the search for favorable wood pellet plant sites.
Thinking about renewable energy, the first things that come to mind are usually large fields of solar panels facing the sun, wind farms with revolving blades or turbines behind dams producing hydropower. But another source of renewable-energy already accounts for about half of Europe's renewable-energy consumption - biomass.
July 16, 2013
Fields of Dreams
Long before Facebook, Google and Yahoo became household names, the central U.S. was laying the foundation for what would become the most vital infrastructure of the world's three biggest Internet companies.
July 11, 2013
Rivers to Cross, Bridges to Build
Rivers by definition drive apart. But there's no shortage of examples where they've served to bring regions together. Think Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, Greater Pittsburgh or Minneapolis-St. Paul.
July 11, 2013
Race to the Starting Line
Say "Petronas" out loud and most people will think you're talking about Harry Potter's animal spirit ("patronus"), which has helped him out of any number of tight situations.
July 11, 2013
‘Do You Find Me Attractive?’
In May Ernst & Young published the latest edition of its Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), marking 10 years since the index's first edition.
July 11, 2013
Inside Walmart’s ‘Buy American’ Strategy
The company famous for "everyday low prices" suddenly wants to spend a lot more money - on U.S.-made products, that is.
July 11, 2013
Hey Lolly Lollicup, Powered by Muncie, Motos and Macintoshes Rev Up in Texas, and more
While economists fret over bubbles of another kind, the leading maker of bubble drinks is stretching its wings. Lollicup USA Inc., the specialty beverage manufacturer, supplier and retailer, is moving from 140,000 sq. ft. (13,000 sq. m.) in two separate locations in Walnut and Industry, Calif., to one shiny new 300,300-sq.-ft. (27,898-sq.-m.) facility in the San Bernardino County community of Chino. The company plans to add to its payroll of 150 once the relocation is complete in mid-third quarter 2013.
July 11, 2013
The Taxman Leaveth
Few things get companies as excited as waving goodbye to corporate taxes.