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A New Frontier For Investment In South Carolina

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South Carolina's North Eastern Strategic Alliance region attracted more than $850 million in investments in 2017, projects that will create more than 2,200 new jobs. Read: A New Frontier For Investment In South Carolina at BusinessFacilities.com.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Soaring To New Heights

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The Aerospace/Defense industry reported its third consecutive year of record revenue and profit last year. The uptick came on the strength of a surging commercial aviation market that more than offset a soft defense performance. For 2012, the top 100 Aero/Defense companies reported a record-setting $695 billion in revenue and $59.8

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FEATURE STORY: Washington Is Aiming Higher

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With climate change literally lapping up at his shores, a bridge collapse putting infrastructure needs front and center and overseas trading partners knocking on his door, Gov. Partnerships and teamwork on multiple levels are essential to winning opportunities with existing and new employers in our state.”. “One

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FEATURE STORY: State of the Year – Texas

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Texas was our top-ranked state in Best Business Climate; it also garnered the top spot in Best Transportation Infrastructure and Installed Wind Power Capacity Leaders. to bounce back to pre-Recession employment levels in 2011, while most of the rest of the country was still digging out of the deep economic trench.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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So, in several of our more statistics-oriented categories, this year we have given extra credit for positive industry-specific employment numbers. We’ve broken the overall biotech ranking into several categories in this year’s report, including Biotechnology Strength/Employment. California, Washington, Texas Soar In Aerospace.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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Infrastructure was another category that deserved a closer look. Of the 10 states we’ve listed in our first annual ranking of Nuclear Power Generation Leaders, Georgia and South Carolina signaled their intention to move up this list by breaking ground on the first new nuclear power plants to be built in the U.S.

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COVER STORY: 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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a global energy company based in South Africa, decided that Louisiana’s highly developed pipeline infrastructure is perfectly suited to its plans to develop a $10-billion gas-to-liquids processing plant that will enable it to tap into the natural gas bonanza in the U.S. The company’s 2011 revenue was $13.9 Project Impact Estimates.

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