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Louisville, KY Getting More eBay

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ebay Enterprise’s current Louisville fulfillment center. company, plans to expand operations in Louisville, KY, creating more than 150 new, full-time jobs and investing up to $45 million in the Commonwealth. With more than 500 current employees in Louisville, eBay Enterprise is expanding to meet rising customer demand.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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These include transportation carriers of all kinds, as well as warehousing, distribution, third-party logistics services, manufacturers’ operations, retailers and distributers who may have their own distribution centers. According to Sheffi, logistics clusters are “huge employment engines.”.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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. “Locating this Innovation Center in [the Atlanta area] makes good business sense because we can draw from a deep pool of local talent,” said Randy Mott, GM’s chief information officer. Deal said the Innovation Center is “is exactly the kind of employer we want in the state.” The state pursued the project from multiple fronts.

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

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The excellent support we have received from Bay County EDA, Governor Rick Scott’s office, higher educational partners and The St. Ford in June announced it will invest $900 million into its Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP) in Louisville to support production of the 2018 aluminum-alloy bodied Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The Austin Chamber of Commerce, Travis County and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism were key players in bringing the project to fruition. Austin is now one of the nation’s top emerging high-tech cities, with more than 120,000 people employed by around 4,400 technology firms. Together, they employ thousands.

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Logistics: No Drivers Needed

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which is now the city of Greenwood’s second largest employer. Located along Interstate 65, Seymour-Jackson County is one hour south of Indianapolis, IN, an hour north of Louisville, KY and 90 minutes west of Cincinnati, OH, and was a founding member of the South Central Indiana regional marketing group formed in 2002.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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5 in Biotechnology Strength Employment Leaders, no. to bounce back to pre-Recession employment levels in 2011, while most of the rest of the country was still digging out of a deep economic trench. The Peace Garden State also repeats its top-ranked performance in the Employment Leaders category. Here’s a sampling: no.