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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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Over the course of the grant’s 12-year term, the project will grow the state’s economy by an estimated $6.3 secured a $10 million Department of Defense contract to strengthen the cybersecurity of small businesses that work with manufacturers in Louisiana. The center will ultimately employ up to 2,000 associates.

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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

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According to Deloitte’s 2014 Global Aerospace and Defense Outlook , the commercial aerospace sector is expected to experience significant growth this year, driven by continued record-setting production levels at assembly facilities and throughout the aerospace supplier network. percent in 2001 to an estimated 31 percent in 2013.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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So, in several of our more statistics-oriented categories, this year we have given extra credit for positive industry-specific employment numbers. We’ve broken the overall biotech ranking into several categories in this year’s report, including Biotechnology Strength/Employment. California, Washington, Texas Soar In Aerospace.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. That represents 42 percent of the total U.S. population.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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Texas still rules the roost in Installed Wind Power Capacity, while Minnesota and Kansas have made great strides in increasing the percentage of their overall energy needs now being serviced by wind farms. 3 in Aerospace/Defense Industry Leaders, no. 5 in Biotechnology Strength Employment Leaders, no. This brings total U.S.

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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

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A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. This reverses a five-year trend that resulted in employment decreases of 9.4 However, despite the decline in employment numbers, the U.S.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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When jobs stopped getting created (and in many areas employment was still hemorrhaging), we introduced the concept of growth potential as a key measure in our flagship rankings categories. The Subaru expansion will create 500 new jobs and yield an estimated direct economic impact of more than $1.8 billion over the next 10 years.

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