August 7, 2013
Early June saw the release of the 2013 Major Projects Inventory by the Moncton, N.B.-based Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. A major project is defined as any capital project, including public-sector, valued at $25 million or more ($10 million or more in Prince Edward Island). The 2012 MPI identified 357 major investment projects across Atlantic Canada with a value of $100 billion. This year those numbers totaled 388 projects valued at a record $115 billion.
August 7, 2013
African success stories may start with Botswana and end - a long time later - with Guinea. So once you establish where it is (on the continent's northwest coast), get over its past and look to the future, there may be a reason to spend more time on the conversation.
August 6, 2013
Dozens of projects engaged with moving goods have recently made good moves to Greater Toledo.
August 6, 2013
President Obama's visit to Mexico City in May had an interesting and surprisingly novel focus on the two nations' very positive economic relations, now at an amazing $536 billion dollars in two-way goods and services trade for 2012.
August 5, 2013
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July 30, 2013
The state that invented the Model T Ford, HP printer and Gerber baby food is now reinventing itself.
July 30, 2013
What do the world's largest retailer, an entrepreneurial steel industry executive and a French jet manufacturer all have in common?
July 26, 2013
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
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
Governor Mary Fallin returned from Le Bourget Paris Airshow in June with a commitment from Australian aerospace supplier Ferra Engineering to locate an operation in Grove, in the northeast corner of the Sooner State. The company, which plans to hire 20 engineers, specializes in the custom design, manufacture, assembly and test of aerospace structures and sub-systems. It also produces medical devices for the healthcare industry, as well as components for renewable energy systems.
July 25, 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My father once mused that Australia and New Zealand exist so the rest of the world has something to envy.
July 22, 2013
The UK has received a major vote of confidence from foreign investors after retaining its lead as Europe's top inward investment destination for the 11th year running.
July 22, 2013
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
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
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
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 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.