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How to plan your warehouse layout

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They protect inventory and, when built right, improve on the efficiency with which that inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped. See the drawings here if you want to skip ahead. Not surprisingly, the price tag to build a warehouse has a major impact on how its floorplan is designed.

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

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Instead of trying to replicate Vegas’ famous Strip, Reno is opting for Startup Row, a string of e-Commerce ventures that is drawing from an overflow of techies flocking to the city’s biggest recent prize—Apple’s new data center. For industries focused on just-in-time inventory and working capital management, there is no better location.

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COVER STORY: Shovel Ready Sites Are Growing From The Ground Up

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Obtaining the Shovel Ready designation better positions the city of Becker [a St. One of the header designs is 45 feet wide. Since the Shovel Ready Program began in 2009, it has helped to draw projects like Geringhoff and many others to the region. Geringhoff is a 130 year old company, based in Ahlen, Germany.

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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.” In comparison, railroads are in a much better position regarding infrastructure, equipment and personnel. Spending in the U.S. trillion in 2012, a 3.4

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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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million aviation technical school is nearing completion at the Fairhope Airport Industrial Park, designated at an Alabama AdvantageSite. With this designation, communities can receive more looks from companies as sites become qualified as shovel-ready. This is the fifth Baldwin County site to earn this designation.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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A major incentive is the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF), which is designed to expedite the development and commercialization of new technologies and to attract and create jobs in technology fields. Waxahachie’s regional draw and numerous manufacturers make building a customer base a breeze.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. SALES & USE TAX ABATEMENTS: Taxes on construction-related transactions, pollution control devices are exempt from sales and use taxes.

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