This issue of SiteNet Dispatch brings you new and exclusive stories from the smokin'-off-the-press March 2008 Site Selection, including: Cover Story - the 2007 Governor's Cup Rankings: "Victory Lap" Top Metros of 2007: "Life at the Top" (Expanded Web Edition) Top Micropolitans of 2007: "Newcomer Claims Checkered Flag" Editor's View: "Winner Takes All" I.T. and Software Development: "Competitive, for the Moment" Frontrunners at the Finish Line: The top-ranked states for the 2007 Governor's Cup are depicted here, as part of Site Selection's profile of the annual winners in the race for most new facilities and expansions. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Hyundai to Build Parts Plant in Russia" "ICBC to Open Australian Branch" "Abengoa to Create 75 Jobs in Netherlands" "Flextronics Expands in Hungary" "Saint-Gobain Further Invests in Bulgaria" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and North Carolina's Touchstone Energy cooperatives.

Where in the World? The unusual object that's pictured here, dear readers, is "the world's biggest banjo." Can you name the city in which this rather bizarre item is located? Finally, SiteNet Dispatch readers proved to be their usual geographically savvy selves in our last installment of Where in the World? As of Tuesday, March 4th, at 10:00 p.m. EST, 56.5 percent of readers had correctly identified Tijuana, Mexico as "the television manufacturing capital of the world." Here's a quick look at how the voting broke down late Tuesday night: 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 - Further Investment In The Centre Of European Flat Glass Industry Scheuten-Group (Venlo/Netherlands) will build a 190 million euro flat glass production plant in Saxony-Anhalt, adding 260 employees. Production of the f-glass GmbH plant starts at the end of 2009. With factories and subsidiaries in Europe, Korea and the US, Scheuten will produce about 220,000 tons of flat glass per year in Saxony-Anhalt. Furthermore, a fabrication of heat protection glass and solar glass coatings is planned. "Our market is the entire European market," says Herbert Köhler, Managing Director of f-glass GmbH. "We decided to invest in Saxony-Anhalt because everything is just fine there - from the supply of resources up to the logistic connection." Saxony-Anhalt strengthens its position as a centre of the flat glass industry with sites in Wolfen (Guardian), Haldensleben and Osterweddingen (Euroglas). Saxony-Anhalt will supply about one-third of Germany's flat glass production and about 10 percent of Europe's. 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. You are subscribed as: eeee To change the format in which you receive this email, update your contact information or cancel your subscription, please click here.