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Food processors facing full plate of location opportunities and challenges

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Labor availability is crucial for a site to attract food processors, since other considerations for site selections, such as technology and information resource, can be easily brought by the processor. The food processing industry is more sensitive to labor availability and proximity to distribution channels since both can affect product quality and freshness. The food processing industry is also looking for sites that have high quality of life characteristics since this defines the local marketability of their product.

Crop Production, FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS, Food, Food industry, Food processing plants

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Ohio's edge: new momentum for the next millennium

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Ohio has been able to maintain its power to attract businesses from the 1980s to the 1990s. The state leads in providing business incentives through taxes and regulations. It also boasts of technically skilled and globally oriented workforce. It is usually the preferred site for manufacturing facilities among domestic and foreign-based corporations. The state also provides information support to its manufacturing sector through the Thomas Edison Program, a research program focusing on enhancement of productivity.

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, Manufacturing NEC, All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, Manufacturing and Industrial Building Construction, Industrial Buildings, Industrial buildings and warehouses, Manufacturing industry, Manufacturing industries, Industrial sites, Industrial construction, Ohio, Skilled labor, Tax incentives

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Texas: here comes the 21st century

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The state of Texas is best known for its cattle and petroleum industries but it has also emerged in recent years as a major US center for telecommunications, international trade and high technology. Texas now boasts of an economy that is expected to grow by some 3% annually through the year 2000, almost double the national average. The state government has given economic development top priority and it offers businesses a wide range of incentives to meet growth projections.

Economic development, Texas

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