This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the September 2008 Site Selection: Texas: "Governor's Council Recommends Competitive Measures" Northern California: "Growth Catalysts" Upper Midwest: "Building by Necessity" Special Advertising Section - ESRI Business Analyst Online: "The Geographic Approach to Economic Development" The Labeler Has Landed: Finnish labeling firm UPM Raflatac in June opened a new US$100-million, 225,000-sq.-ft. (20,903-sq.-m.) manufacturing facility in Dixon, Ill., part of the I-88 corridor west of Chicago. Pictured above is UPM Raflatac Global President Heikki Pikkarainen speaking at the factory's grand opening. THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: New Jersey Commerce.

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Zycko Lands in Spain" "Daimler to Recruit 1000 New Staff" "K + N Launches Branch in Norway" "Essent to Open Office in Oslo" "Abriso Establishes Plant in Poland" Where in the World? Now that's what I call good eatin' . . . and eatin' . . . and (insert gastric distress) eatin'. Yes, we've got "the world's largest commercially available hamburger" (pictured) for you here, weighing in at an absolutely ridiculous 164.5 pounds (74 kilograms). Can you name the city in which this humongous hamburger is made? And in our previous "Where in the World?" some 37 percent of Dispatch readers correctly identified Cut Bank, Mont., as the home of "the world's largest penguin." Another 20 percent thought, quite logically, that the penguin's home was in Reykjavík, Iceland. Wall Street's Woes and Business Expansion: What's Your Take? How has the recent credit crisis on Wall Street affected your company's facility expansion plans? See how your firm's position squares up with others. IAMC at IEDC: If you're going to be in the Atlanta area next week, you may want to plan to attend the Wednesday morning session of the International Economic Development Council's Annual Conference at the downtown Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Four leaders of the Industrial Asset Management Council — Chair Rick Little of Weyerhaeuser, Vice Chair Jim Winter of Alcoa, and Past Chairs Pete Garra of The Linde Group and Charles McSwain of CSX - will be offering their "Corporate Real Estate Directors' Perspective on Economic Development." The end-users' panel, moderated by IAMC Executive Director Ron Starner, is the first ever at IEDC, and is sure to provoke some interesting exchanges with the economic developers gathered from around the world. The program is set for 8:30-10:00 a.m. on Oct. 22 at the Hyatt Regency. For registration details, go to www.iedconline.org. Also, for IAMC members, the IAMC Southeast Region is hosting a Region luncheon and networking event from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. that day at the Peachtree Club in Atlanta. The cost is $35. To register, contact Hazel Pankey of IAMC at hazel.pankey@iamc.org. 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. October 17 - 18, 2008 CCIM & IREM Success Series 2008 Hilton Chicago, Chicago, USA October 19 - 22, 2008 IEDC Annual Conference Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA October 20 - 23, 2008 Development 08 (NAIOP Annual Conference) The Hotel at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV October 20 - 22, 2008 North American Port & Intermodal Finance & Investment Summit St. Regis Hotel, Houston, TX October 27 - 30, 2008 5th International Congress of Nano-Bio Clean Tech 2008 San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, Burlingame, United States October 27 - 28, 2008 2008 Summit on Economic & Workforce Development Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City, OK October 28, 2008 Milken Institute California State of the State Conference The Beverly Hilton Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, United States October 30 - 31, 2008 Associated Owners & Developers National Conference East Conrad Hotel, Miami, FL October 30 - November 1, 2008 NAI Global SIOR Fall Conference Hilton, Minneapolis, MN November 4 - 6, 2008 Cityscape Latin America 2008 Transamerica Expo Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil November 19 - 21, 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, USA 02210 November 19 - 21, 2008 MIPIM Asia Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong November 30 - December 3, 2008 The 8th World Free Zone Convention The Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC 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.