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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Erickson, who founded Grayhawk Homes in 1992, grew it into the largest volume builder in Columbus, Ga., In the last quarter of 2019, he looked at his spec home inventory and decided he needed to move some units. If you have many homes in inventory, don’t wait until your competitors drop their prices, making your products uncompetitive.

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BUSINESS REPORT: GA Notches Record Job Growth And Investment In 2012

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Largest Cities (2011): Atlanta, 432,427; Augusta, 196,494; Columbus, 194,107; Savannah, 139,491. Key Incentives: Small Business Tax Relief, R&D Tax Credit, Inventory Tax Exemption, Quality Jobs Tax Cr., Foreign direct investment, which typically creates more jobs per project, accounted for 29 percent of the year’s projects.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” Labor Department forecasts that truck drivers will account for 43 percent of the growth in logistics jobs in the coming years. Spending in the U.S.