The Sweet with the Sour: U.S. Sugar Corp., the nation's largest producer of cane sugar, has been operating in south Florida for more than 70 years. But what's that huge sugar mill's fate now in the wake of Florida's pending US$1.34-billion purchase of 181,000 acres (72,400 hectares) of the company's land? And what happens to the Glades region's economies? We went to visit "America's Sweetest Town" to try and find out, as this week's SiteNet Dispatch reports. Sugary but Raw: Raw sugar pours down into one of the warehouses at U.S. Sugar's Clewiston operations. This week's Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the November 2008 edition of Site Selection: Machinery Manufacturing: "Nothing Grows Like a Deere" The Middle East: "High Hopes" Kansas: "Room for Growth" Nebraska: "Think Globally, Hire Locally" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: The State of New Jersey.

Cut the Tape: Quintiles, the world's largest clinical research organization, recently opened a 236,000-sq.-ft. (21,924-sq.-m.) complex in Overland Park, Kan. With some 900 employees, the Kansas operation is the second-largest campus in the company's global operations. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "De La Rue Expands in Malta" "Sekisui Chemical to Invest in Plant in Netherlands" "SCOR Establishes Subsidiary in Moscow" "Deutsche Bank Opens Office in Switzerland" "DocuWare Creates French Subsidiary" Ready 'n' Rarin' to Go for Your Online Reading: You can now get the entire November edition of the award-winning Site Selection online by simply using our new reader. And, by using the "Navigate" menu in the upper left-hand corner, resourceful readers can also: November's Site Selection: Read it all, now. request additional digital delivery of Site Selection; renew your subscription to the magazine; or qualify to receive a free subscription. Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

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