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The Mississippi economic development
directory below (scroll down)
links to the websites and contacts for many economic development organizations
in Mississippi and
related content such as Area Profiles and Area Surveys as
executive summaries about business locations. |
Contact us for project assistance, or to update our directory listing
for an area. We provide personal introductory referrals to our
contacts and other assistance according to the investment project interests
of the corporate executives and business advisors we serve. |
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contact us if you may be interested in expanding your business into
Mississippi. We are
independent
advisors - not a government agency or investment promotion
agency. |
The "Seek Advice"
section outlines topics which may be helpful as background to support your
project plans. |
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February 27, 2007 : Congratulations to the Tupelo,
Mississippi region (Blue Springs) for winning the Toyota "Wellspring"
project - a new North American automotive assembly plant that will
manufacture the Toyota Highlander model starting in 2010. This $1.3
billion project to produce 150,000 vehicles per year is expected to employ
2000 people directly, plus any related suppliers or other companies which
may be attracted to the region by this major development. |
For more information about the Toyota project in Mississippi:
Media room set
up for the Toyota Wellspring project in Tupelo
Tupelo Community
Development Foundation www.cdfms.org
Mississippi
Development Authority www.mississippi.org
Mississippi state
government website :
www.mississippi.gov |
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Area Profiles and Area
Surveys are executive summary presentations about business locations.
These may include maps, links to commercial real estate listings of
available industrial and office sites and buildings, investment project
news, information about existing businesses in the area, labor market
information, and investment incentives. Such content makes it easy to
search for relevant locations, as shown by our
Area Search
service. |
We can also highlight recent project
announcements, advertising, and promotional events as well as independent
consultant research reports about communities or industry clusters.
Our "Professional Site Selection Tour" service at
www.OnTheShortList.com organizes
business location research work and Area Reports through consultant "familiarization tours",
and our "Meeting Point" work pre-schedules B2B introductory meetings at
events. |
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Mississippi |
Scope; maps of
AL, MS, TN, GA |
Contacts
GDI: Bruce |
Website and other resources
Projects-MS announcements |
Survey |
Profile |
| Mississippi Development Authority
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State 39205
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www.mississippi.org
New and Expanded Facilities |
No |
No |
| Governor Haley Barbour's
website for hurricane recovery, and the Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding
and Renewal |
State |
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www.mississippirenewal.com
www.mississippirecovery.com
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No |
No |
| Mississippi Power,
Gulfport MS |
state utility
39502 |
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www.mississippipower.com |
No |
No |
| Community
Development Foundation (Tupelo) |
County 38802 |
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www.cdfms.org |
No |
No |
| The Alliance
(Corinth) |
38834 |
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No |
No |
| Tishomingo County
Development Foundation - Iuka MS |
County 38852 |
Gary Matthews
662-423-9933 |
www.tishomingo.org
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No |
No |
| Grenada County Chamber of
Commerce |
County 38902 |
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www.grenada-ms.com |
No |
No |
| Rankin First Economic
Development Authority, Brandon |
County 39043 |
601-825-2268 |
www.rankinfirst.com
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No |
No |
| Madison County Economic
Development Authority (Canton MS) |
County 39046 |
Tim Coursey
601-859-1990 |
www.madisoncountyeda.com |
No |
No |
| Natchez -Adams
County EDA |
County 39121 |
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No |
No |
| Entergy Corp. |
Utility 39201 |
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www.entergy.com |
No |
No |
| Hinds County Economic
Development District; Jackson MS |
County 39205 |
601-353-6056 |
www.selecthinds.com
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No |
No |
| Greater Jackson Alliance,
Jackson MS |
Metro 39207 |
601-948-3111 |
www.greaterjacksonms.com |
No |
No |
| East
Mississippi Business Development Corp., Meridian MS chamber |
Region 39302 |
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www.embdc.org
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No |
No |
| East Central
Mississippi Economic Council - 17 counties, based in Meridian MS |
Region 39304 |
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www.ecmec.org
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No |
No |
| Mid-Mississippi
Development District, 6 counties, based in Newton MS |
Region 39345 |
601-683-2091 |
www.mmdd.org |
No |
No |
| Community Development
Partnership of Philadelphia MS - Neshoba county |
County 39350 |
601-656-1000 |
www.neshoba.org |
No |
No |
| Wayne County Economic
Development District |
County 39367 |
601-735-6056 |
www.waynecountyed.com
FedStats |
No |
No |
| Area
Development Partnership (Hattiesburg) |
Region 39401 |
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www.theADP.com |
No |
No |
| Economic Dev.
Authority of Jones County |
County 39440 |
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www.edajones.com |
No |
No |
| Mississippi
Gulf Coast Alliance, Gulfport MS |
Region 39502 |
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www.mscoast.org |
No |
No |
| Harrison County Development Commission
(above) - Gulfport, MS |
County 39502 |
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www.mscoast.org |
No |
No |
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Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber |
County 39602 |
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www.brookhavenchamber.com |
No |
No |
| Pike County Economic
Development |
County 39649 |
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www.pikeinfo.com |
No |
No |
| Tennessee
Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority - multistate |
Region, Port
39703 |
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www.tenntom.org |
No |
No |
| North Mississippi Industrial Development
Association |
Region 39773 |
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www.nmida.com |
No |
No |
Explanation of column
headings above
- Organizations are generally sorted in
postal code order so that locations which are geographically close to each
other will usually (not always) be grouped together. This is a
selective directory, even though the state directory is more comprehensive
than the very selective one we will maintain at the regional level to
highlight the organizations which support our work or are found to be of
frequent interest for the convenience of the executives and business
advisors we serve.
- Scope : is the area served by the
organization, and postal code. We may include thumbnail maps which
expand to show information about participating areas, or link directly to
good maps or GIS research tools on the organization's website.
- Contacts : relationship leader at GDI
Solutions for maintaining information about contacts in this area.
If there is a working relationship through our various GUIDE services, we
also list the key organization contact, phone, and optional e-mail.
- Website and other resources : Aside from
the main website link, we may include other direct links to highlight
special features of expected interest to executives, especially if they
might not be readily noticed by just visiting the website. A good
example of this is when relevant content is actually maintained somewhere
else, such as a regional website rather than the local one, so that one
would otherwise need to know to follow the available links between the
websites.
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The default
for all other columns is "No" unless the organization supports our work.
- Survey : areas which have responded to our
GUIDE Network Survey, with a link to their response for convenience if
published (optional) and highlighted at the top. This is often
useful as an executive summary at the "long list" stage of location
selection.
- Profile : participates in our GUIDE Area
Profile service (also highlighted at the top of the page). This
involves a closer working relationship to maintain more timely and
detailed knowledge of the area throughout the year, and also involves a
more detailed executive summary on the website, with many relevant links.
If there are significant incentives in the area, we may also link to a
GUIDE Incentives Profile.
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All area representatives are encouraged to reply to the free
GUIDE Network
Survey, which consists of very basic questions to help maintain
timely knowledge about many areas for referral purposes. Area
representatives : see
how to
participate. Current service pricing
is listed on the
Order Form (Adobe Acrobat .PDF file). Refer also to any
special offers.
Please help us to help you by supporting our work.v
Executives who use this service are encouraged to
respond to our free
Executive Survey, which helps us to continuously improve.
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The presence, absence,
or position of any organization on these lists,
or their position on the lists, does not imply any endorsement or opinion about their services,
nor by them about our own. The selections are simply intended to be helpful to executives who may be
unaware of such contacts, or how to reach their websites quickly.
Please contact us directly for relevant introductions or any additional
contacts, market knowledge, and research which we don't publish. |
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The
directory above
is a "long list" extension of our contacts directory for the larger
US
Southeast region,
following the same structure as our
global contact directories.
These area representatives
would typically include
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a state department of
commerce or industry or a provincial government office
- greater
metro city or county area chamber of commerce
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county economic
development agency
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industrial development
corporation or council - IDC
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alliance for business
development, community development
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investment promotion
agency - IPA
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industry cluster development initiatives, business
incubators, technology parks
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regional or global professional B2B networking
organizations, business partnering, joint venture development, or strategic
business alliance services
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trade and investment
promotion offices
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Despite the
wide variety of names for such economic development organizations, and
variances in the scope of their services, the ones we list are generally
actively involved in efforts to attract, expand, and retain business
investment projects in their areas (offices, factories, etc.), including the
attraction of foreign direct investment projects (FDI). This typically
includes support services, financial incentives, and information for
corporate site selection decisions as well as local business retention and
expansion services.
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Contact information for relationship
leaders at GDI Solutions : |
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We develop and maintain
working relationships among participating area representatives - economic
development organizations - and professional service providers as well as
senior corporate executives who are responsible for the planning of major
projects such as new, relocated, expanded or consolidated offices,
factories, distribution centers or other operations. |
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e-mail |
Phone |
Fax |
| Bruce Donnelly |
bruce@gdi-solutions.com |
847-304-4655 |
847-304-5375 |
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We specialize in personal, independent introductions to
relevant professional service providers such as business location strategy
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project interests of the executives we serve.
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planning an investment project or seeking local business alliances.
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August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastated Gulf of Mexico
coastal areas from Louisiana across Mississippi and Alabama to the northwest
Florida panhandle, particularly with storm surge flooding near the coast and
torrential rains not only in the immediate area, but also in areas farther
north along rivers which drain through the region.
Information about Katrina and
other US hurricanes.
Although news coverage concentrated on the most dramatic scenes in some
of the major cities such as New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulfport, and Mobile, this
was a catastrophic natural disaster across a widespread area on a scale
rarely seen in the last century. |
www.mississippirecovery.com Governor Haley
Barbour's website for hurricane recovery. To contribute
to disaster relief organizations working in the region :
As with the tsunami disaster in Asia, reconstruction of
these communities will take a long time after the initial emergency response
work. Business support of the local economic development organizations
will also be welcome as the recovery effort moves forward. |
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