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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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In March, IBM announced a new 800-job technology center in downtown Baton Rouge that will provide software development and software maintenance services to clients in the U.S. with services that address the increasing demand for flexible software to keep up with Big Data, cloud and mobile requirements they are facing.

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Snapshots: 60 Seconds… With Bill Hagerty, Commissioner, Tennessee Department Of Economic And Community Development

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BF: You recently announced that software player ForceX is putting its operations center in Nashville, a $1.8-million Can we expect the Nashville region to develop as an IT/software hub? BF: The airport in Memphis is one of the world’s busiest air cargo facilities, home to FedEx’s North American shipping hub. Bet the farm on it.

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State Focus: Minnesota’s Formula For Success

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Endeavor Airlines, an executive jet line and Delta Air Lines subsidiary, moved its corporate headquarters from Memphis, Tenn., WFSI, a Sauk Rapids company that does customized welding projects for the energy and defense industries, is adding 32 new jobs in that central Minnesota community. to Bloomington, near the Minneapolis-St.

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Keeping Up With Advanced Manufacturing

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ABB will establish operations in the 85,000-square-foot building formerly occupied by Twin Creeks Technologies, 40 miles south of Memphis, TN. Utah also is home to a Boeing defense team of approximately 250 employees in Ogden and Little Mountain. Photo: Boeing).