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links below to our
directories of economic development agencies, professional service
providers, and other resources for global business location
research, analysis, and site selection decisions. We help executives
with capital investment project plans such
as new locations for business facilities - offices, factories, distribution centers and other types of
operations. |
Our custom
Google site search feature (Search button above on any page) is
generally the fastest way to find any content of interest on this website,
which has 25,000+ links to other resources worldwide in addition to hundreds
of pages of unique content, such as executive summary presentations about
business locations and other topics of common interest. |
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For Executives - please just tell us
what you are seeking, and we will help you in
confidence, like an independent concierge with useful market knowledge and
contacts who offers free referrals. The "Add to
Google" button (above right) can be used to save a custom search tool to
your own iGoogle home page for searching all of the websites which can be
searched selectively below. |
Our new
www.OnTheShortList.com
website is a selective tool for business location research. The
Search tools highlighted in blue below are on that website. We are
also setting up unique new regional search tools for multiple locations and
services at www.ShortListNews.com
(in green below). This new website also shares recent news, press
releases, and market insights from many locations and professional service
providers. |
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Try our new website:
www.ShortListNews.com - with new tools for fast business
location
research.
Search: Americas provides regional and
state tools for selective research across the websites of 2000+ states,
cities, and counties. There are similar tools for other countries. |
Try our unique
Global Corporate Real Estate Search
tool, too.
For service providers and economic development professionals:
Advertising and how to
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See how to request a
relevant directory listing or update our records. Ask
us how we can feature a business location, property, advertisement,
event, news, or project announcement to make it easy for executives and
their advisors to find it quickly when relevant to their interests.
We also welcome relevant
reciprocal links. Links to our home page or to this page are
preferable, but the website is designed to maintain a stable structure over
time, so that "deep links" from websites or search engines to relevant
content pages should rarely be broken. |
These tables
of directory links previously appeared at the bottom of many pages for
convenience. We are replacing these with links to this page, which
will now be easy to find by the Directories button at top left from
any page. Our related
www.OnTheSHortList.com
website provides selective content from field research work plus unique
business location research tools, such as to easily search many related
websites selectively for similar content. These convenient tools are
also listed below. |
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May 10, 2007 - The White House has issued a new "Open
Economies" policy statement and press release which includes the new
Invest in America initiative at the US Department of Commerce within the
International Trade Administration (ITA). In the
past, Commerce Department officials in the International Trade
Administration, including Foreign Commercial Service officers and other
staff at US embassies, have been tasked primarily with US export promotion
and trade policy tasks. Now they will also focus on the attraction of
foreign direct investment projects to the USA.
White House press release and policy statement about Open Economies
See also further
background at
www.ShortListNews.com |
March 7, 2007 - A new "Invest in America"
initiative has been announced by the US Department of Commerce.
This is a major change in US policy. Other countries
proactively seek to attract and retain foreign direct investment projects.
The US has left that almost entirely up to US states and
local areas until now as a very fragmented approach with limited resources.
It will take time for this new policy to have a
significant impact, but it seems to be a major change in policy which may
attract both bi-partisan support and criticism.
www.investamerica.gov |
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New : State economic development professionals who
are responsible for attracting business investment and providing site
selection assistance to executives and their consultants were invited in
April 2006 to provide an informative article on this simple topic : "Why
should a business invest in your state?" The article content and size
was entirely discretionary.
We publish their
"Point of View" articles here for convenient reference by executives.
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"Point of View" articles were contributed by many US
state economic development officials : Why invest
in ? Alabama
Idaho
Iowa
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Utah
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
We have added relevant links to other content we provide
from these article pages. |
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our contacts as well as market research work and other assistance as an independent
service according to the capital investment project interests of the
corporate executives and business advisors we serve. |
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