This issue of the SiteNet Dispatch brings you new and exclusive stories from the brand-new January 2008 issue of Site Selection, including: SITE Visit: "Global Shipping Stars Align in Lowcountry" World Reports: "Global Robot Sales Decline in 2006" Editorial Profile - Berlin, Germany: "Biotech Bonanza" IAMC Insider: "To Green or Not to Green" Big-Time Biotech Thrives in Berlin: Built in 1791, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate (pictured) now regularly welcomes incoming life-sciences firms. Pfizer is among the companies that are making the Berlin-Brandenburg region a leading global hub for biotech and medical technology. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Sun Hung Kai Creates Investment Fund in Singapore" "Wipro Launched BPO Centre in the Philippines" "Continental to Open Test Site in Hungary" "ECI Establishes Centre in Hungary" "Assured Guaranty Opens Australian Office" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: North Carolina's Touchstone Energy cooperatives and Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.

Climate Change and Manufacturing - What Impact? _____ a. Increase in manufacturing expansion _____ b. No change in manufacturing expansion activity _____ c. Decrease in manufacturing expansion Our latest installment of "What's Your Take?" looks at the fast-growing international momentum to limit emissions contributing to global warming. How will lower CO2 emission requirements affect manufacturing expansion activity in the global region in which you live? The Dispatch Presidential Tally Is In: Readers' opinions differ from the early U.S. presidential primaries when it comes to which candidate "represents the best hope for strengthening the American economy and promoting the global competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing companies." Here's how the vote stood in our most recent "What's Your Take?" as of 8:00 EST on Tuesday, Jan. 8th. Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

Upcoming Conferences and Expositions of Note Read more on the expanded events calendar at SiteNet.com. January 21 - 23, 2008 World Future Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates January 21 - 25, 2008 World of Concrete, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV January 22 - 24, 2008 7th Annual Executive Elite Global Summit of the Americas, Sheraton Panama Hotel & Convention, Panama City, Panama January 24 - 26, 2008 MEDESTATE, International Exhibition Center of the Exchange Of Casablanca, Morocco January 24 - 25, 2008 Tax Credit Finance Course, DoubleTree Washington, DC January 29 - 31, 2008 NAI Global Convention Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV February 18 - 20, 2008 Global Summit to Address Outsourcing, Offshoring and Globalization Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL February 26 - 28, 2008 LogiCon 2008 Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium February 27 - 29, 2008 International Facility Management Association FM-3D conference Hilton Houston Post Oak, Houston, TX March 11 - 14, 2008 MIPIM 2008 Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France April 9 - 11, 2008 Airport Cities World Conference & Exhibition Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, Dallas, TX April 19 - 23, 2008 IAMC Professional Forum The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, Phoenix, AZ April 24 - 26, 2008 NAI Global SIOR Spring Conference Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC CONDUCT LOCATION RESEARCH ON ANY U.S. STATE OR COMMUNITY DevelopmentAlliance.com has always offered detailed state, county, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical data for companies seeking new business locations in the U.S. ... The Web site enables comparisons of critical data sets from every U.S. county and gives corporate site selectors the ability to select up to five communities at once for a side-by-side comparison. Now you can also find important international data through our International Guide. This is a free service of Conway Data, Site Selection magazine, SiteNet.com and the International Economic Development Council. Just log on to DevelopmentAlliance.com and find out what thousands of other site selectors have already discovered: DevelopmentAlliance.com is the place to go when conducting Internet-based research on possible business locations. FREE LOCATION ASSISTANCE is just a click away! NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION SIGN UP FOR SITENET DISPATCH Did a friend forward you this e-mail? Sign up for your own free e-mail newsletter by visiting http://www.sitenet.com MISSING ISSUES? Please add SiteNet Dispatch [dispatch@sitenet.com] to your address book to prevent your email system from filtering our newsletters as spam. Look at our online archive to find what you missed, http://www.sitenet.com/dispatch/archive.cfm FEEDBACK Please send comments about content to Adam Bruns or suggestions for how to improve this newsletter to Shannon Landin. MAGAZINE CUSTOMER SERVICE For magazine subscription concerns such as back issues, address changes, and account status information, please visit our customer service department at http://www.siteselection.com/response Would you prefer to read this newsletter in your web browser? Click here. The SiteNet Dispatch is best viewed at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or larger. The SiteNet Dispatch is a free service of SiteNet (http://www.sitenet.com), the Internet's premier source of corporate real estate and economic development information. Copyright 2008, Conway Data, Inc. All Rights Reserved.