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

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. population.

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Kansas also has no personal property tax, no inventory tax and no franchise tax. Kansas is a right-to-work state, bringing one additional cost saving to employers. A new BNSF Railway Intermodal Facility near Kansas City provides businesses with one more strategic shipping advantage.

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Iowa: Moving To The Top Of The Class

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Crisscrossed by four interstates and over a dozen state and federal highways, the Quad Cities region is located 2½ hours away from Chicago, and within a five-hour truck drive of Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Indianapolis and Omaha. At the same time, our existing local businesses have also continued to expand.”.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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percent in 2014 due to stronger shipment volumes and inventory carrying charges that were up 2.1 The existing warehousing inventory in DuPage County’s sub-market has over 180 million square feet of rentable building area, making it one of the top two markets in the Chicagoland area. percent in 2013 and 8.3 percent in 2014.

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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.” There is no inventory tax, which is particularly advantageous to distribution companies. Major metros such as Dallas, Kansas City, St.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

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Accomplishments • Built a digital platform based on inventory and buyer targets of divisions in multiple states and organized staff training sessions • Increased digital traffic to community sites and increased brand awareness in key regions by unifying D.R. Jude Dream Home Giveaway Home in 2010. Regional Marketing Manager.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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In a national economy still recovering from a recession, Texas has forged ahead of the pack as a result of a superior business climate, ranking as the “Best State for Business” by Chief Executive Magazine for the eighth straight year in 2012. For companies requiring rail, Greenville can be accessed by virtually every major railroad line.

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