And you were thinking that some of your site selections were tough: Tata Motors, after spending two years and $350 million at one Indian site, has been forced by violent protests to pull out and relocate before starting production of its much anticipated Nano mini-car. Now, the highly respected Indian firm is staring anew at a different site in Sanand, as this week's SiteNet Dispatch explains. Smoother Drive Times: Tata Motors Chairman Ratan Tata stands beside the Nano mini-car that his company introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Now, the company's reluctant relocation of its Nano plant will slow the car's full-bore introduction to the vast Indian market. Photo: Tata Motors This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the September 2008 Site Selection: Mid-Atlantic: "Infrastructure Grades: Above Average, Mostly" South America: "The Noise from Brazil" Special Advertising Section - Florida: "Florida: The Dawning of a New Era" Special Advertising Section - Work-Force Training: "Measuring Work-Force Training" A Fort Fit for High-End Expansions: Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is drawing a host of high-tech firms, regional headquarters and international companies, with recent major additions including Embraer, cell-phone manufacturer Foxconn International Holdings and Blackberry-maker Research in Motion. Photo: Ken Henson, The Broward Alliance THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: North Carolina's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives and Lehigh Valley.

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Barry Callebaut Launches Spanish Plant" "KPMG Boosts Network in Romania" "Alpina Opens New Plant in Bosnia" "Wincor Nixdorf Opens Centre in UK" "ARCAD Software Launches Dutch Office" Where in the World? Hungry enough to eat a bear, you say? Be careful what you wish for. Pictured here is "the world's biggest hamburger," weighing in at an absolutely ridiculous 164.5 pounds (74 kilograms). Can you name the city in which this humongous hamburger is made? 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. 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 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 December 8 - 10, 2008 Cityscape India Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, India December 10 - 12, 2008 AURP 2008 Annual Conference Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club, St. Petersburg, FL 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.