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ec oNomIc DevelopmeN t I N the NeWs florIDa commuNIty fastest GroWING Job market With a five-year growth rate of 32.2 percent, Cape Coral-Fort Myers ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for job growth according to a recent report by Bizjournals.com (see Fig. 1). Orlando, Lakeland, and SarasotaBradenton were also in the Top 10 and five additional Florida markets ranked in the Top 30 in the rankings. F IG. 1 pany’s Southfield, Mich., corporate headquarters comes as it readies the national launch of DailyMedT, a drug packaging system that puts patients’ multiple prescription and over-thecounter medicines and vitamins into a roll of single-dose packs labeled with the dates and times the patient should take the medications. mIssIssIppI pulls IN toyota supplIer home of several companies in related businesses. We are centrally located in Europe and can recruit from a highly qualified, multilingual workforce familiar with a number of cultural environments. Switzerland is perhaps the most efficient country in Europe from which to conduct business given its excellent communications and transportation infrastructure, business-friendly government and realistic tax regime.” proloGIs completes bulk saleleaseback traNsactIoN IN JapaN p e r c e N t G roWth IN p r I v a t e - s e ctor Jobs ( 2 0 0 2 -07) cape coral-fort myers, fla. las vegas riverside-san bernardino, calif. phoenix orlando boise, idaho lakeland, fla. sarasota-bradenton fla. bakersfield, calif. tuscon 32.2% 29.2% 27.3% 23.4% 21.5% 21.3% 20.9% 20.7% 18.7% 16.6% Toyota Auto Body Co. Ltd. has announced plans for a $200 million plant in Baldwyn, Miss., that will produce stamped parts, body weld parts and plastic parts for the $1.3 billion auto assembly plant under construction in Blue Springs, Miss. The supplier is expected to break ground on the plant in December 2007 at a 100-plus acre (40-plus hectares) site less than 30 minutes from the manufacturing plant. The facility will open in 2010 and employ 400 people. chs INc. establIshes emea heaDquarters IN sWItzerlaND pharmaceutIcal compaNy selects INDIaNapolIs for NeW hq Arcadia HealthCare has announced plans to relocate its national headquarters to Indianapolis, creating more than 400 new jobs in the area by 2010. The home healthcare products provider will invest more than $3 million to relocate its suburban Detroit headquarters to Indianapolis’ north side. The relocation of the com- Minnesota-based grains, food and energy company CHS Inc. is establishing its new European, Middle East and African (EMEA) headquarters in Switzerland. The new company, CHS Europe SA, will launch operations in Geneva in January 2008. Claudio Scarozza, senior vice president of the new operations for the company, said that “Switzerland, and especially Geneva, is a natural location for a business like ours, as it is the ProLogis has completed a major sale-leaseback deal in Japan with Matsushita Logistics, according to CNNMoney.com. Under terms of the agreement, the Matsushita Group unit sold 17 warehouses to a joint venture of ProLogis and GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd., the Government of Singapore’s property investment arm. Masato Miki, ProLogis’ co-president of Japan operations, remarked, “This is an important transaction for ProLogis in Japan, one that exemplifies a key long-term trend in the Japanese distribution market. Increasingly, large companies here are seeking to outsource distribution and real estate operations in order to fortify their balance sheets and to focus their business resources on core operations.” At the end of this year’s first half, ProLogis’ Japanese operating portfolio boasted 21.7 million sq. ft (2.02 million sq. m.) of industrial space, including facilities in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Osaka. 2 0 0 7 the le aDe r 92 November / December http://www.Bizjournals.com http://www.CNNMoney.com

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