June 12, 2013
Site Selection magazine sat down with Atento CEO Alejandro Reynal to learn about the history of the company's massive international expansion of the last two decades as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telefonica, one of the world’s largest Telecom conglomerates, and what the future holds after the recent acquisition from Bain Capital in late December 2012.
June 12, 2013
Bahrain and banking used to go together. That is not so much the case now. The "bank king" of the Gulf has been dethroned. Before the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring, Bahrain was the banking and finance centre for the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The United Arab Emirates has now become the go-to location for many activities in this sector.
May 23, 2013
Powering one of America's most important automotive manufacturing regions is just one of the many tasks of Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative.
May 21, 2013
Boeing announced this spring that it will locate its Brazilian research and technology center at the hub of Brazil's aerospace industry – in the city of São José dos Campos' Technological Park.
May 14, 2013
Switzerland, Germany and Austria lead the world in terms of their travel and tourism industry competitiveness with Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada, Sweden and Singapore completing the top 10, according to the fifth Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report, released in March by the World Economic Forum.
April 30, 2013
Monsanto Co. on April 23 announced plans to bring together its St. Louis-based R&D team on one campus when it completes a more than $400-million expansion at its Chesterfield Village Research Center.
March 27, 2013
The Panama Canal expansion, on target to be completed by 2015, has certainly put Panama and Central America back on the map.
March 22, 2013
Two announcements on Monday and Thursday of this week signaled a fundamental strategic and physical shift for biopharma giant AstraZeneca, including the establishment of a new corporate headquarters in a new UK location; the shift of small molecule and biologics R&D to three strategic centers around the world; and an eventual overall headcount reduction of 5,050 between now and the end of 2016.
March 18, 2013
Site Selection in early February hosted a roundtable conference call with a select group of corporate real estate and facilities pros from some of the most powerful biopharma organizations in the world, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
March 4, 2013
RK Motors decided to put pedal to metal when the vintage muscle-car restoration business needed room to expand beyond its headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
February 4, 2013
“You’re going to see the development of these resources. The money is too big to even have the politics squash it.” So says Arthur P. Hall, founding executive director of the Center for Applied Economics at the University of Kansas School of Business, of the quickly evolving energy plays across North America.
January 30, 2013
Energy comes in many forms. It's not as simple as electricity or gas. It's electricity made from coal, nuclear, solar, biomass, hydro or wind. Vehicle fleets can be powered by electricity, gasoline, diesel or compressed natural gas. All of these energy forms provide communities and energy producers with options, and for many of these options site selection is the critical link from proposal to production.
January 30, 2013
More than half of the world’s known reserves of lithium are located in three countries. Argentina, Bolivia and Chile have the potential of living a modern-day manufacturing miracle if they take the right steps and harness their lithium potential.
January 23, 2013
Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality of living, according to the Mercer 2012 Quality of Living Survey.
January 21, 2013
The world’s been paying attention to the mega projects that are under way in Brazil as part of the nation’s latest economic expansion and its preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Monstrous stadiums, a bullet train between Rio and São Paulo, super highways, new deep sea oil rigs, and of course, huge seaport and airport expansions all are in the works.
January 21, 2013
International flights into and out of European airspace have been granted a small reprieve by the European Commission, which has suspended their inclusion into the controversial EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for one more year.
January 9, 2013
Following up on two separate projects whose feasibility studies were announced just over a year earlier, South Africa-based energy and chemicals company Sasol announced in early December it will combine them into one complex. This and other stories from around North America
December 21, 2012
Construction is set to begin this month on Mann Research Center’s first phase in the Tradition Center for Innovation (TCI), reflecting the high demand for space within the planned 44,000-sq.-ft. (4,088-sq.-m.) Mann Medical Office Building (Mann Medical One).
December 14, 2012
World Reports: Index Mines Social Media and Jaguar Accelerates U.K. Expansion Plans
November 30, 2012
Each November in Dusseldorf, Germany, more than 135,000 visitors from more than 100 countries attend Medica, the world’s largest gathering for the medical industry. That sea of participants includes an array of state agencies from the U.S. seeking new business for existing companies and recruiting investment from firms based around the globe.
November 19, 2012
NASA’s space program contributed to countless inventions, including the lithium battery, the artificial heart pump and even the cordless vacuum. It also helped to demonstrate America’s technological prowess to the world — an element that contributes in building the U.S.
November 14, 2012
The Volkswagen Group is expanding its ecological and social commitment in Brazil as its growth trajectory there gains altitude. “The Brazilian automobile market has significant growth potential.
November 14, 2012
International intermodal logistics center offers promise of ‘game-changing’ industry for Florida’s Heartland. If business leaders and economic developers in Florida’s Heartland have their way, the region will also become known as the sweet spot for global logistics, manufacturing and international trade.
November 12, 2012
College students are no different from the companies that one day will hire them in looking for their own best return on investment, which is why the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) this fall released its 2012 AIER College Destinations Index (CDI), which examined a dozen factors in evaluating the 227 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with student populations of 15,000 or more.