May 7, 2009

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Vacuuming Against the Grain: Not only is Tacony creating new U.S. jobs manufacturing vacuum cleaners - an industry in which "Made in the USA" is practically an endangered species. The company is also relocating most of those jobs from low-cost Asian locales. So has Tacony gone mad? "We think that we'll gain a tremendous competitive advantage in designing products near where they will be manufactured and used," Tacony's John Kaido explains to The SiteNet Dispatch.

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The good news doesn't stop there. Witness the first batch of features from the freshly printed May issue of Site Selection:

Our Top Deals of 2008 offer plenty of reasons to believe there is Sun Peeking Through the globe's economic clouds when it comes to industrial development.

The Ohio Department of Development is King of the Hill when it comes to state-level economic development performance, as it earns our 2008 Competitiveness Award.

The expanded Web edition of our Top Groups of 2008 shows why The Center Holds when it comes to local economic development teams in the U.S.

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IPA World News

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
- "JMP Engineering Opens Australian Office"
- "Garnica Invests in France"
- "Almirall Establishes New HQ in UK"
- "Ericsson Plans R&D Centre in Italy"
- "SABIC to Close Plant in UK"

Where in the World?

Dino-Mighty: That big girl pictured on the right is the "world's largest dinosaur" - a statue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex that stands 86 feet (26 meters) tall, stretches out to a length of 151 feet (46 meters), weighs a whopping 145,000 pounds (65,250 kilograms), and sits in a town that's called "the dinosaur capital of the world."

See if you can name that town - and discover the strange and beautiful natural wonders that lie there in this new edition of "Where in the World?"

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Check the Where In The World Archive!

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Editor's Note

Project New America: Also available online, free of charge, is Site Selection Publisher McKinley Conway's timely new book, Project New America. Conway's 45th book, Project New America offers a detailed plan for national investment in alternative energy to create millions of jobs and make the nation energy independent. Additional material online includes:

Conway's commentary on how Project New America meshes with the Obama recovery plan.
Experts' opinions about Project New America, including endorsements from economic developers and opinion leaders from around the country.
The Project New America Energy Industries Index, featuring a listing of energy companies by nation and state.

Click here to access and download, gratis, the complete text of Project New America.

Upcoming Industry Events

Upcoming Conferences & Expositions of Note
Read about and link to these conferences and many more listed in the events calendar at SiteNet.com.
- May 7 - 8, 2009 - Gaining Ground: Energy and the Future of Cities
- May 11 - 14, 2009 - Shared Services & Outsourcing Week
- June 10 - 11, 2009 - World Forum for Direct Investment
- June 18, 2009 - Sustainability Forum Frankfurt
- June 18, 2009 - The New Urban Economic Model: The Transformation of Fairfax County
- June 24 - 27, 2009 - European Real Estate Society Annual Conference

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