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Who Can Shorten the Supply Chain for Home Building?

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Greater Leverage for Big-Box Retailers in the Home Building Supply Chain . Manufacturers would be expected to dictate terms and allocations in a market with constrained supply, but the big-box retailers are gaining leverage. Big-box retailers] have to do something with their distribution centers,” Callahan points out.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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In this year’s Metro Rankings Report, we’ve taken note of the crucial role exports are playing in the Recovery for many locations by charting their success in two of our rankings categories, Exports Growth Leaders and Exports Recovery Leaders. 10 in our Economic Growth Potential metro ranking. From the July/August 2014 issue.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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The dedicated technology hub will help accelerate the Fortune 50 company’s technology transformation, serving as the epicenter for the team Lowe’s is hiring to help modernize its IT systems and build future retail experiences. The center will ultimately employ up to 2,000 associates. TX, VA LEAD CYBER CONTENDERS.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Awards

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The Alliance has a strong partnership with Broward County’s Workforce One employment center, securing nearly $1 million state and local training assistance for 1,107 employees in local companies. After two months, a quick-pitch contest was held and the winning software proposal got a 120-day test period at the health care institution.

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Business Facilities Names 2013 Deal of the Year Winners

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The new technology center in the Baton Rouge area has the potential to transform the region into a software development hub, which is one of our region’s targeted sectors,” said Baton Rouge Area Chamber CEO Adam Knapp. The new tech center will provide software development and software maintenance services to clients in the U.S.,

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FEATURE STORY: The Story Of Storage

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Data centers are crucial to operations across countless sectors, from retail to information technology, government to biotech, logistics to engineering. Furthermore, the amount of security necessary to run a successful data center is enormous due to the highly sensitive information and pricey equipment housed in such storage units.

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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Since everyone has been bemoaning the decaying state of America’s bricks-and-mortar infrastructure, we decided to accentuate the positive by bestowing our new IT Infrastructure award on three metros that bucked the trend and took matters into their own hands. Without further ado, here are the winners of our 2014 Economic Development Awards.

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