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The Voice for the Manufacturing, Industrial and Maritime Community in the South Sound A New Coalition for South Sound Manufacturing Manufacturing has a new voice. Today we announce the new…
Pierce County delegation touts region at Farnborough Airshow The EDB and other representatives of Pierce County took to the skies last month to attend the 2018 Farnborough Airshow, July 16-22, in Hampshire,…
James Hardie: EDB recruitment success, then and now In the Frederickson corporate offices of James Hardie Building Products Inc., the framed front page of the September 1997 issue of Teamwork hanging in the…
AMES International making sweet, global splash Consumers in Southeast Asia are looking to satisfy a sweet (and salty) tooth. A deal between AMES Internationaland Tmall will make that easier. Fife-based AMES is the…
They love us. The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce devoted an entire special section to projects popping up all over Tacoma, including a $125 million mixed-use complex in the Brewery…
Pierce County is ideal place for startups “While Pierce County offers pluses to new entrepreneurs it also lacks many of the minuses that are starting to take the shine off…
Washington State ranks “most competitive” in U.S. by a wide margin for aerospace manufacturing Independent researchers looked at 41 metrics in every state and the District of Columbia. Washington’s dense…
Action Item: Take the U.S. Economic Census Information gathered may help grow your business The Economic Census is the U.S. Government’s official five-year measure of American business and the economy. It’s conducted…
South Sound leaders collaborate for family-wage jobs The South Sound is a great place to do business. And a recent proposal by an impressive number of Pierce County elected officials made…
“Should we grow here and can we grow? Of course the answer is yes. It’s affordable here, we don’t have traffic issues, and the weather is just as good.” -Michael…