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AI Challenges Traditional Site Selection
Could AI help you pick your next major facility location or expansion?
Foot Locker Packs its Bags for St. Pete
The iconic sneaker seller is trading in the Big Apple for the Sunshine State.
Fender Stays in Tune with Greater Phoenix
Legendary guitar firm picks redeveloped mall site for new HQ2.
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New World Bank ‘Business Ready’ Rankings Offer a More Transparent Version of ‘Doing Business’
Singapore tops more than one ranking of business environments, including the new Business Ready rankings from the World Bank.Photo of Clarke Quay courtesy of Singapore Tourism Board Time was when the World Bank Doing Business rankings were a standby resource, whether we were examining the rise of India or putting together a composite index for […]
Gift Bag of New R&D Data Features Microbusiness Insights
Given California’s R&D prowess, it was no surprise that early this month the city of Sunnyvale (home to Applied Materials’ forthcoming Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization Center, pictured) was announced as the expected location for the CHIPS for America Design and Collaboration Facility.Rendering courtesy of Applied Materials It’s that time of year. Not the […]
Site Selection Snapshot: Slicing and Dicing the Academy
Slicing and Dicing the Academy Oxford University is No. 1 in the world for the ninth consecutive year. Photo by Chinyup Wong: Getty Images Earlier this month at Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit in Manchester, UK, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 were unveiled. A total of […]
WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close
WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]
The Geography of Genius
The Geography of Genius The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]
Project Bulletin
Project Bulletin, Nov. 18, 2024: Waco, Texas; Visp, Switzerland; Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alexis Elmore reports on Mexico-based Electrolit’s establishment of its first U.S. operations; a Lonza expansion in Lisp, Switzerland; and the arrival of a new Nokia manufacturing facility in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Project Bulletin, Nov. 11, 2024: Greensboro, North Carolina; Rochester, England; Moorhead, Minnesota
Alexis Elmore reports on a UK-based semiconductor company’s project in North Carolina; BAE’s expansion in Rochester, Kent, UK; and a massive $5 billion sustainable aviation fuel project from DG Fuels in Moorhead, Minnesota, part of the bistate Fargo metro area.
Project Bulletin, Nov. 4, 2024: East Donegal Township, Pennsylvania; Kenilworth, New Jersey; Penang, Perak, Malaysia
A DOSE OF EXPANSION About 93 miles west of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s East Donegal Township, pharmaceutical and biotechnology company GSK has plans to expand its nearly 20-year-old facility. The vaccine packaging plant will welcome $800 million from GSK in a move that marks the company’s largest U.S. investment. The expansion project includes a new 270,000-sq.-ft. […]
Project Bulletin Oct. 14, 2024: Brazil; South Carolina; India;
EDITOR’S NOTE: The project records appearing every week in the Site Selection Project Bulletin are pulled from the Conway Projects Database, a proprietary resource with tens of thousands of records of corporate end-user facility investments across all industry sectors and all world geographies. Want to look for our projects yourself? Look here. Brazil’s Got BioFuel […]
Project Bulletin: October 7, 2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: The project records appearing every week in the Site Selection Project Bulletin are pulled from the Conway Projects Database, a proprietary resource with tens of thousands of records of corporate end-user facility investments across all industry sectors and all world geographies. Want to look for our projects yourself? Look here. Investment Pours In […]
Investor Watch
Investor Watch: November 21, 2024
Business-Ready Countries; Aerospace & Defense; Spokane; Palmdale, California; Chips in Japan; Illinois; Green Building Reports; Port Houston
Investor Watch: November 18, 2024
Global Automotive; Virginia; Waco; Switzerland; India; Shipbreaking; Mississippi; New FDI Data; TSMC Arizona
Investor Watch: November 14, 2024
R&D Data Dive; Opportunity Zones; Data Centers; FM Achievement; Mississippi; Innovation Hubs; Turkey
Investor Watch: November 11, 2024
FDI in America; Asia; Winfield, Kansas; North Carolina; England; Minnesota; Bell Textron; Hattiesburg; Mississippi Ag; Veteran-Owned Firms; Chicago
Investor Watch: November 7, 2024
R&D Data Dive; Opportunity Zones; Data Centers; FM Achievement; Mississippi; Innovation Hubs; Turkey
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