Casinos’ Historic Origins and Modern Impacts
Gambling as a pastime is nearly as old as civilization itself. However, the Palazzo Vendramin Calergi Casino in Venice, Italy, claims the title of the world’s oldest surviving gambling house, or...
OLFA North America
Simple observations often inspire the greatest inventions. While breaking off a segment from a Hershey chocolate bar, Yoshio Okada thought of glass breaking and revealing a sharp piece, which...
Estone Technology
In today’s manufacturing, medical, industrial, robotics, and autonomous systems markets, many companies have a product vision but not the full engineering, manufacturing, compliance, and lifecycle...
Flex Technologies
Last year, Flex Technologies of Midvale, Ohio reached the half-century mark as a thermoplastics powerhouse. This one-stop shop handles all aspects of production, from compounding to manufacturing...
Trumbull County Planning Commission
In Trumbull County, people are known for their work ethic and common-sense approach to resilience. For Nicholas Coggins, Director of Economic Development at Trumbull County Planning Commission, the...
Williams County, Ohio
In the northwest corner of Ohio, where state lines converge and rural landscapes stretch between thriving communities, Williams County is quietly building a powerful case for itself as a destination...
Carroll County, Ohio
Some communities grow for growth’s sake, but the people of Carroll County, Ohio have an unusual awareness of the type of community they live in, the kind of community they want to be, and the path...
Culinary Success in a Competitive World
Establishing, managing, and succeeding in any business is no small feat, but the restaurant industry is particularly challenging due to a number of complex factors: narrow profit margins, shifting...
The Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association (OMEGA)
Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association (OMEGA) represents 10 counties—Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Holmes, Jefferson, Muskingum, and Tuscarawas—in the east portion...
GROW Licking County
In recent years, the word ‘reshoring’ has been on the lips of many a business owner. Referring to the movement to bring manufacturing and services back to America from other countries, the reshoring...
RealWear
RealWear began operations in Vancouver, Washington in 2016, and over the better part of the ensuing decade, its founders have established a footprint for creating wearable computer interfaces: smart...
Buckeye Hills Regional Council
Located in Southeast Ohio, the Buckeye Hills region comprises a large geographic area—3,600 square miles—made up of eight counties: Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Perry, and...
Greene County, Ohio
Greene County, Ohio, is a community where there is both a strong sense of pride around the agricultural history and legacy of the region, but also where growth and development are welcomed and...
Codonics
For more than four decades, Codonics has built its reputation on a simple but disciplined principle: technology should solve real-world problems in healthcare. Founded in 1982 by Owner, President...
How Global Supply Chains Are Adapting to Survive
Over the last five-plus years, the global market has faced unprecedented challenges due in large part to forces beyond its control, and those circumstances continue to wreak havoc on the supply...
Cell-Cultivated Meat Enters the Marketplace
On August 5, 2013, a pair of taste testers at a London, UK press conference consumed what could be the most expensive hamburger ever assembled. The patty cost over $330,000 to produce, mainly...
Canton Township, Michigan
With a rich history dating back to a time when Henry Ford built small factories and dormitories to employ and house war veterans, respectively, Canton Township in Wayne County, Michigan is an...
The County of Grande Prairie No. 1, Alberta
For those seeking the comforts of a small-town, rural lifestyle with access to urban amenities, the County of Grande Prairie offers a unique balance. With a population of over 26,000, a wide range...
Southeast Regional Service Commission – Economic Development (EDE)
Designed to drive Southeast New Brunswick’s development and make the region a top spot in which to live, work, and prosper, the Southeast Regional Service Commission (Southeast RSC) serves to shape...
Navigating Today’s Economic Storm
Across North America, family-owned and operated businesses are facing challenges unlike any others in recent history. Recessions are not new, with companies experiencing the aftershock from the...
Team Industries
When it comes to the timely delivery of high-quality shop fabricated pipe spools, tanks, and vessels, Team Industries, Inc. leads North America’s fabrication industry. With fabrication facilities in...
Grotnes
Over the past two years, Grotnes (pronounced ‘Grote-ness’) has launched a series of initiatives based around artificial intelligence (AI), customer service, and its product line. Headquartered in...
Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) continues its 30-plus-year mission to provide its home state’s manufacturers with the tools and knowhow they need to succeed in today’s...
PTG Electronics
In an era when global supply chains are being reshaped and advanced manufacturing technologies are rapidly evolving, few companies embody the modern manufacturing renaissance quite like PTG...
Atlas Technologies
With thousands of die change installations globally, pressroom automation leader Atlas Technologies celebrated its 60th anniversary last year. Following several years of upgrades to its knowledge...
Symbiote
Symbiote is a manufacturer of specialized laboratory, technical, and healthcare furniture who, alongside its partners, seeks to elevate its clients’ spaces and the work that can be done within them....
City of Kalamazoo, Michigan
Located in Michigan’s southwest, the City of Kalamazoo is pursuing thoughtful, intentional growth that has positioned the community as a welcoming and attractive destination. Home to Western...
Mason County, Michigan
Mason County, Michigan is “a community that has a small-town feel but has much to offer that isn’t characteristic of a lot of rural communities,” states Kristi Lucas-Zimmerman, Economic Development...
City of Warren, Michigan
The City of Warren, the third largest in Michigan and Detroit’s largest suburb, boasts not only a diversified population and tax base—with major businesses including General Motors, Chrysler, Macomb...
Ignite (Fredericton and the Capital Region)
When businesses need specialized mentoring, opportunities for skill development, and access to a network of resources, Ignite provides a path from launch to success. Based in Fredericton, New...
Self-Care for Self-Starters
It is not an overstatement to say that small business is the lifeblood of the economy. Beyond producing and delivering goods in their local communities, these businesses are the primary engine of...
Prince Edward County, Virginia
Dating back to the mid-1700s, Prince Edward County is neatly—and prettily—nestled in the south-central Piedmont region of Virginia, USA. Sharing its county seat, the Town of Farmville, with the...
CSM Group
Like most successful organizations, Michigan-based project management specialist CSM Group has shown it can evolve and adapt to the largest of economic ebbs and flows, while remaining competitive in...
City of Estevan, Saskatchewan
Estevan, Saskatchewan has long been known as the Energy City. It is a community shaped by resilience and an unwavering spirit of collaboration, and these qualities are now driving one of the most...
Small Businesses Weathering an Economic Storm
Conflict comes in many forms and whether we like to admit it or not, the world is currently at war on many fronts. While some countries are fighting conventionally with weapons, others are defending...
ARCO Design/Build
In the construction industry, experience counts, and few companies realize this more than ARCO Design/Build. Building its reputation over three decades, ARCO is known today as America’s leading...
Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce
For more than a century, the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce has been a cornerstone of Prince Edward Island’s business community. Incorporated in the late 1800s, it stands as one of...
Eastern Maine Development Corporation
Lee Umphrey likes to live in the present, not the past. President and CEO of Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC), Umphrey prefers to discuss the organization’s many initiatives, programs,...
Considerations for Cold Storage
From old-fashioned cellars to today’s refrigerated transportation and massive temperature-controlled warehouses, keeping things cool is a multi-billion-dollar business steeped in technology and...
Envision Saint John: The Regional Growth Agency
Envision Saint is well-positioned to steward the growth of the Saint John Region as it enters its sixth year of operations. Launched as a new model for economic development in 2021, the agency...
Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company
When you think of potato chips, the image that often comes to mind is a bag sitting on a supermarket shelf, crisp and ready for snacking. But behind every bag is a story, and for Covered Bridge...
Upper Valley Business Alliance
The Upper Valley, an area home to over 200,000 people spanning the states of Vermont and New Hampshire in the Northeastern United States, is as unusual as it is interesting. An organically defined...
Northumberland Properties
The towns of Amherst and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia have been home to local Real Estate Development company Northumberland Properties for over 15 years now. Since we previously highlighted the firm in...
Central Connecticut Chambers of Commerce
True economic development will never occur in silos, and nowhere is that more evident than in Central Connecticut. Here, strength is in unity, collaboration, and a legacy of working together to...
City of New London, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut has always been a picture-postcard city with a population that understands celebrating life. Following its creative and proactive response to the economic pressures of...
Confederation Centre of the Arts
The Confederation Centre of the Arts has been a cultural and artistic hub for both the province of Prince Edward Island and Canada at large, for more than 60 years. Such a considerable lifespan...
The Shires of Southwestern Vermont
When it comes to choosing an exclusive location for a mass corporate getaway, the United States has no shortage of enticing options. But when organizations set out to plan a targeted leadership...
Galco
While much of the industrial sector wrestled with disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, Galco emerged stronger. Since 2019, the company has doubled in size and sales by redefining what industrial...
Edmundston Madawaska Tourism Office
At the northern edge of New Brunswick, meeting up with both Quebec and the United States, the Edmundston–Madawaska region has long occupied a unique place on the map. A gateway community shaped by...
Knight Growth Strategies
“People think that all rental housing providers do is simply collect rent, but we’re actually continually navigating a really complex system,” says Amanda R. Knight, founder of Knight Growth...