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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia topped the chart in BF’s flagship Economic Growth Potential ranking. North Carolina has been laying out the welcome mat for businesses in a diverse group of industries, offering a growing talent pool of young skilled workers, an attractive quality of life and targeted incentives.

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Carolinas Are Bringing The Business

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Manufacturing continues to be a real wealth and job creator across South Carolina,” said Hitt. May was also a good month for North Carolina—the month it was announced that Cape Fear Arsenal Inc. The project was made possible in part by a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund of up to $490,000.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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For the past few years, we have issued a Metro ranking for our annual evaluation of aerospace/defense manufacturing leaders. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State. aerospace and defense industry directly employed 1.05 Deloitte estimates that the U.S.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Ontario Unveils Plans To Achieve An Energy Balance

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The Ministry of Energy and the OPA are developing a new competitive procurement process for future renewable energy projects larger than 500 kilowatts (kW), which will take into account local needs and considerations. The ministry will seek to launch this procurement process in early 2014. Do we see rich capabilities in the university system?

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Interstate 40 is the major east-west thoroughfare reaching from North Carolina to California that runs through Arkansas. Louis and Chicago to the north and New Orleans to the south, while Interstate 30 connects Arkansas with markets to the southwest, including Texas and Mexico. Interstate 55 links eastern Arkansas to St.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The new facility, which will increase Apple’s workforce in Austin to more than 6,700, will serve as the primary operations nexus for the company in the Americas outside of Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, CA, centralizing accounting, human resources, sales, marketing and finance. billion over 2011-2012. billion over 2011-2012.

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COVER STORY: 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The Metro Atlanta plant will be Baxter’s third in the Southeast; it also has plants in North Cove, NC, and Cleveland, MS. According to a Triangle Business Journal report, Baxter International executives toured sites in Granville County, Wake County and Lee County in North Carolina before selecting the Covington, GA location.

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