This issue brings you new and exclusive stories from the November 2007 issue of Site Selection, including: Machinery Manufacturing: "Asian Machinery Firms Build U.S. Bases" Upstate New York: "Cooking Up Deals in the Upstate" (Expanded Web Edition) Ontario: "Center of Contact" Special Advertising Section - Ports and Free Trade Zones A Movable Feast: Drawn in part by New York's Empire Zone incentives, Home Bistro crossed the state border to its relocate operations in the Upstate region in 2002. Now the manufacturer of frozen gourmet meals is mulling further expansion in Clinton County. THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development .

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "NYK Launches Distribution Centre in UK" "Sadia Inaugurates Russian Facility" "Allianz Mulls Banking Operation in Poland" "Buda-Cash to Enter Slovakia" "Scheuten Builds Plant in Germany" Which U.S. Presidential Candidate Really Means Business? More specifically, which one would be good for business and economic development? You can voice your choice by voting in the Dispatch's new "What's Your Take?" So far, the distance between the poll's two frontrunners - a Democrat and a Republican - is very small indeed. Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

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