Engine Plant Climbs Toyota Mountain
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Huntsville is on course to become the largest Toyota engine plant in the world, aiming to produce 744, 000...
Automotive Success from Big Cities in Alabama to Small Towns
They make car seats, car doors, braking systems, headlights, gaskets and more. If it’s a component of a modern automobile, odds are somebody’s making...
Alabama Honda Mints a Lux SUV
Last December in tiny Lincoln, just off the Interstate 20 corridor in Talladega County, Honda workers celebrated the 3 millionth vehicle as it rolled...
Incentives: Are they Necessary or Essential?
In an effort to boost economic growth and create jobs, the Cuomo administration in 2012 launched “New York State Open for Business, ” a...
Currency Wars and Bursting Bubbles
Mark Thornton is an economist with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, headquartered in Auburn (but not a part of Auburn University). The institute is...
The Biggest Splash in Sports
For Randy Howell and other professional anglers, nothing would help their careers more than winning what’s known as the Super Bowl of bass fishing...
How Management Weighs Success
There was never a question whether Don Logan would return to Alabama when his time as chairman of TimeWarner in New York ended. There...
Spotlight on Marion, Lamar and Fayette Counties
Marion, Fayette and Lamar counties —located in northwest Alabama — have a rich history and a strong spirit of economic and regional cooperation.
With a...
Location, Location, Location
Of all of Alabama’s business-luring incentive programs, one of its newest, the film incentive, is perhaps the most successful in terms of providing an...
Hornady on Talking Money and Hard Driving
Chris Hornady, president of Monroeville-based Hornady Transportation LLC, is one of those owners who says he thinks of his employees as family.
But it takes...