Already an industrial giant, the U.S. health-care system is continuing its explosive growth. This week's SiteNet Dispatch provides a statistical analysis of where the health-care sector is most rapidly expanding - and how the hottest areas are attracting the industry. Billion-Dollar Baby: America's health-care/social-services sector pays nearly US$600 billion a year in wages and salaries to more than 16 million employees housed in some 750,000 facilities. Photo: Bill Branson, National Cancer Institute This issue of the SiteNet Dispatch brings you new and exclusive stories from the January 2008 issue of Site Selection, including: Pacific Northwest: "Welcome to the Club" (Expanded Web Edition) Central Plains: "Planting the Seeds of Science" (Expanded Web Edition) Special Ad Section: Emerging Logistics Hubs Not the Beta Version: Microsoft is a long-time mainstay in the Pacific Northwest's economy. The company's headquarters complex in Redmond, Wash. (pictured), serves as the epicenter of Microsoft's 36,000-employee cluster around Puget Sound. THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: New Jersey Commerce and 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: "Sony Increases Production in Austria" "Novartis Opens Research Facility in Italy" "Wipro Doubles Employees at Swedish Site" "QIAGEN Launches New Site in Singapore" "Nippon Steel to Open Office in India" Where in the World? The bustling city that's pictured on your right is known as "the television manufacturing capital of the world." Can you name it? 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. March 11 - 14, 2008 MIPIM 2008 Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France March 12 - 14, 2008 ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital Bacara Resort, Santa Barbara, CA April 9 - 11, 2008 Airport Cities World Conference & Exhibition Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, Dallas, TX April 13 - 15, 2008 2008 IEDC Federal Economic Development Forum Westin Alexandria, Alexandria, VA April 15 - 17, 2008 Cityscape Asia Suntec Singapore 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 April 28 - 30, 2008 Milken Institute Global Conference Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA April 29 - May 1, 2008 CDFA's Annual Development Finance Summit Hyatt Regency St. Louis, MO Saxony-Anhalt: Development Begins on a New Solar Module Facility The foundation stone for a solar module production facility will be laid this week in Osterweddingen, near Magdeburg, capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The Schuco International KG Bielefeld, together with the E.ON AG, will establish a thin-film production facility for solar modules at the industrial park Magdeburg/Sulzetal to integrate photovoltaic modules in building facades. The total investment of 100 million euros will create more than 130 new jobs. The Schuco International Bielefeld KG, specialist for integration of photovoltaic modules in state-of-the-art metal and glass facades, and the E.ON AG, Dusseldorf, plan to use solar energy more efficiently in the future. Hence, they launched a new joint company called Malibu, whose main goal is to promote the promising thin-film technology to improve the cost-benefit ratio when integrating thin-film photovoltaic modules in facades. www.invest-in-saxony-anhalt.com paid advertisment 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.