Archive for February 22nd, 2008
Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Fort Smith, Arkansas will be the location of U.S. Technology Marine Service’s newest shipyard. This new shipyard will construct barges and tugboats.
This new business will provide up to 50 jobs by the end of January, and another 50 before the end of the year. The company has contracts for barges through 2008, with more being […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Mars Petcare U.S. has selected Fort Smith, Arkansas as the home for their new manufacturing plant. Mars Petcare U.S. is owned by Mars, Incorporated, and is that companies pet food manufacturer.
The new manufacturing plant will produce the company’s Canine Cuisine products for small dogs. The plant will double Mars Petcare U.S.’s production. Around 200 new […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
The Washington Post recently labeled Northwest Arkansas as the “Green Valley”. This moniker comes from a recent developments in this area of the state dedicated to helping businesses and people become environmentally friendly.
The center of green activity is Fayetteville, where organic coffee shops and restaraunts abound and Mayor Dan Coody rides an electric bicycle to […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Last October, Expansion Managment Magazine named Fayetteville, Arkansas the 12th ranked small metro in the nation for business attraction. This study by Expansion Management focused on the relocation and expansion patterns of over 19 million companies over the last four years.
Fayetteville is recognised because of its attitude toward new business, the growth of new jobs […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Allstate Insurance Company will be opening an Express Claims office in Yuma, Arizona. The office was announced in November of 2007, and will open in April of this year.
This new office will bring over 200 new jobs to the Yuma market. Hiring will being in March. Allstate already has four offices in Arizona and 431 […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Tucson, Arizona will be the home of a new secure passport production center. Stanley, Inc., a provider of systems intergration and professional services to the government, will build and manage the facility.
The facility was announced in early December, with construction scheduled to start shortly thereafter. Production is scheduled to begin this spring. The plant will […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
The city of Birmingham, Alabama has chosen former AT&T executive Tracey Morant Adams to become the new economic development director. Mrs. Adams started her new job on January 21.
Adams, a Birmingham native, is replacing Carol Clarke in the position. Adams was most recently an assistant vice president of sales operations and compensation design. The city […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
The city of Auburn, Alabama will be the home of the first US-based operation of toolCare. toolCare is a United Kingdom based tool management business that builds plastic injection molds, blow molding tools, die cast tooling and much more.
The addition of toolCare to Auburn will create 10 new jobs over the next 2 years.
John Chuplis, […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Last August, the new Auburn Research Park recieved news that Northrop Grumman will be locating a National Work Force Center there. Northrop Grumman is opening several National Work Force Centers around the country as a cost-effective way to provide high quality technology while still remaining US based.
This announcement was a victory for the Aubrun Research […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
We’ve just had the website up a few hours less than 48 hours, and have had a fair number of emails already asking us what we plan to include in the blog.
We’re still very much building in our blog content, and meanwhile working to run the data analysis component of our company, which demands our […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
We’ve found over the years that many investors, real estate agents and brokers, and members of the general non-investing public (but who might be potential investors) simply don’t understand the basic facts of real estate market cycles and what defines an emerging real estate market. We created a couple of free reports - a Primer […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
There was no question in the team’s mind that this should be the first book we reviewed on the site - David Allen’s Getting Things Done.
As a busy physician I tried several different organizational systems over the years, and never truly felt any served my real needs optimally. It was during a meeting with Dave […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Redfish Emerging Markets is pleased to announced the initial posting of what will be a monthly feature - a summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of each state’s growth rate in total non farm employment. Here’s a link right to the free report. We’ll be updating this report on or about the 10th of […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Redfish Emerging Markets is pleased to announced the initial posting of what will be a monthly feature - a summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of each state’s unemployment rate. Here’s a link right to the free report. We’ll be updating this report on or about the 20th of every month.
Following unemployment is critical […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
We have a bias here at Redfish Emerging Markets - we tend to search diligently to find the positive or the potential in a situation. Sometimes finding the positive details or the exciting potential is easy, sometimes you need to do a little (or a lot) of “treasure hunting”. Rarely you can’t find something positive […]
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