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Autocar Chooses Alabama For $120M Investment

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Indiana-based Autocar is investing $120 million to open an Alabama heavy truck assembly operation with 746 jobs. Image: Alabama NewsCenter). Average annual base compensation for all employees, ranging from management to production, will be $58,656. The property sits within the city limits of both Birmingham and Center Point.

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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Here’s the good news: most of the states (and the federal government) got the memo (Workforce Training is Job One) and they are moving aggressively to put in place innovative and highly effective workforce training programs that put forward-thinking businesses and higher education resources on the same team.

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Business Facilities’ 10th Annual Rankings Report: Tennessee Races To The Top In Education; Alabama Takes Automotive Crown

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“After rising through the ranks of our flagship auto strength category like one of the Saturn V rockets they used to produce in Huntsville, Alabama finally has reached the summit,” Rogers said. Mercedes’ decision was a game-changer: the German automaker’s arrival opened the door for other industrial leaders to come to Alabama.

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How to Improve Remote Workforce Communications by Eliminating Spreadsheets

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along with Pontem Innovations, about the common process challenges experienced by construction organizations in this industry of rapid change. Pontem Innovations. It’s embracing process automation tools to drive cross-organizational process optimization, comply more easily, eliminate paper-based tasks, and empower a remote workforce.

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FEATURE STORY: Workforce Development Programs – The Recipe For Success

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In this report, we’ll take a close look at innovative worker development and education programs that have been recipes for success for local economic development agencies and public and private training providers. MADE IN ALABAMA. production site in 1993. Today, Mercedes continues to expand its partnership with the state.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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After rising through the ranks of our Automotive Manufacturing Strength category like one of the Saturn V rockets they used to produce in Huntsville, Alabama finally has reached the summit in our flagship auto category. Auto Giants Keep Getting Bigger. automotive production, with more than 900,000 vehicles produced in 2013.

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Seven Projects Land Deal of the Year Honorable Mentions

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Rendering of Kaiser Permanente’s National Innovation Center. Under the codename “Project Profile,” KP conducted a wide-ranging site selection search for a new National Innovation Center. Georgia has become a hotbed for global brands such as Kaiser Permanente to locate innovation and IT centers. ALABAMA LANDS ‘PROJECT AXLE”.

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