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 Southern Business & Development News

For real-time news on business, politics and economic development in the South, go to www.RandleReport.com. For more information on the automotive industry in the South, go to www.SouthernAutoCorridor.com. And for more information on rural development in the South, go to www.SmallTownSouth.com.

Re-shoring picks up speed

Houston No. 1 in relocations

Here is one reason Florida is coming back strong

Here is another Southern state that should come back strong

Navistar to assemble new truck in Alabama

Continental breaks ground in Sumter, S.C.

Oklahoma City ranked No. 1 most cost-attractive mid-sized business location

Surging production in shale formations in Texas

Austin leads nation in job creation

Austin approves incentives for Apple Inc. and 3,600 new jobs

Mercedes supplier breaks ground in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Auto parts supplier Kyowa America announces new plant in Portland, Tenn.

Volkswagen adds 800 workers at Chattanooga auto works

Auto supplier expands in Oxford, Ala.

NCR to add another plant in Columbus, Ga.

Duracell to create 60 jobs in Cleveland, Tenn.

CSX adding workers in Birmingham

Clean energy company announces plant in St. Augustine, Fla.

Offshore wind turbines set for Virginia

Boeing will grow in Charleston, S.C., CEO says

MindTree to create 400 jobs in Gainesville, Fla.

Pharmaceutical manufacturer creating 119 jobs in N.C.

Armstrong World adds 95 jobs in Jackson, Tenn.

Texas start-up begins construction on $140m Georgia factory

West Virginia job gains surge

Houston, Atlanta drive job growth

Boeing begins relocation of Wichita workers to Oklahoma City and San Antonio

Alabama passes film incentives bill

Starbucks to open fifth manufacturing plant in Augusta, Ga.

Virginia named "best state to make a living"

Grant Tennille named director of Arkansas EDC

Atlanta-based RockTenn opens rural N.C. plant

Nephron Pharmaceuticals breaks ground on $313m S.C. plant

Brazil's Embraer to open R&D, design center on Florida's Space Coast

GE adding 600 jobs to revived Appliance Park in Louisville

MTU Diesel expanding Aiken County, S.C. plant

Solar park to provide power to VW in Chattanooga

Little Rock Airport to be renamed for Clintons

High-voltage power cable plant set for Berkeley County, S.C.

Auburn, Ala. land biotech

Wall Street Journal cites New Orleans

Real estate in Spring Hill, Tenn. off the charts

GM preparing Kentucky Corvette plant

Danish automotive parts supplier locating in rural Georgia

Automotive supplier picks Montgomery, Ala.

DHL expands in Northern Kentucky

Toray invests $97 million in North Alabama

German manufacturer expanding in Georgia

Apple expanding data center in rural N.C.

Chinese wind turbine manufacturer sets up shop in Raleigh

PNC to hire 250 in N.C.

Sutherland Global to add 600 jobs in rural Louisiana

First S.C.-built Dreamliner to roll from Charleston plant about the time this issue comes out

CAT expanding in Sumter, S.C.

RESTORE Act passed for Gulf States

Exide expanding Columbus, Ga. plant

The world's busiest airport will open its new international terminal on May 16

VW to build warehouse in rural Tennessee

Mississippi film projects rising

AW North Carolina expanding transmission plant in Durham, N.C.

Michigan-based metals company to open plant in Chester, S.C.

Chemical manufacturer investing $29m in Chester, S.C.

Bi-Lo and Winn-Dixie HQ to be located in Jacksonville

Procter & Gamble completes $100m expansion in Pineville, La.

Ameridial to add 195 jobs in rural N.C.

Toyota Industries selects Pedergrass, Ga. for new plant

Retailer Belk setting up e-commerce center in Small Town S.C.

Southwest Airlines adding jobs at San Antonio call center

Caterpillar adding jobs at North Little Rock motor grader plant

Chaparral Energy expanding in Oklahoma City

Pipe maker expanding in Louisiana

Whirlpool adding to workforce in Tennessee

More private planes in Palm Beach than in India and China

Margaritaville Casino hiring 1,000

Hard Rock hiring 400 in Tampa

Canon Virginia halfway to hiring goal

Capital One expanding in Richmond

GSI Commerce hiring 60 in Henry County, Va.

LamTech to establish operation in Henry County, Va.

DOE gives green light for mini-nuclear reactors in Aiken, S.C.

Toyota adding jobs, capacity at W. Va. transmission plant

Bad Boy Mowers announces rural Arkansas expansion

Hyundai, Kia supplier picks Dothan, Ala.

Formosa Plastics hiring 225 in Texas

Parts supplier expands in Alabama

West Virginia leads nation in export growth

Milwaukee Tool expanding distribution operations in Mississippi

Luvata expands in rural Mississippi

Welspun announces second expansion in Little Rock

Memphis tissue plant to house 100 more

Chiquita relocating 150 to Charlotte in HQ move

Michigan logistics firm will create 200 jobs in Charlotte

Alliance Precision Plastics adding 54 jobs in rural N.C.

Carolina Precision Plastics expanding in N.C.

Texas' Alliance ranked top FTZ

US Nitrogen breaks ground on new plant in Greene County, Tenn.

Snap-On Tools expanding Tennessee facility

Blackstone announces $2 billion commitment to Cheniere's gas export plant in Southwest Louisiana

Publix building $188m distribution center in Orlando

Affinion adding 150 jobs in Williamson County, Tenn.

Account receivable firm bringing 250 jobs to northern Kentucky

Wild Turkey investing $44 million in Kentucky

HCA expanding data center, IT in Tennessee

Oklahoma peanut processor to locate in rural Mississippi; 150 jobs

Lockheed Martin opens manufacturing facility in Pinellas Park, Fla.

Winston-Salem-based Novant hiring 150 in Fort Mill, S.C.

Economic development super region formed in Louisiana

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