CICP News & Updates

Earlier this week, CNBC released its second annual ‘Best States for Business’ study, and Indiana won “Most Improved” – moving up 13 positions from the 2007 report to finish 13^th.

CNBC’s business team judged states on 40 separate measures of competitiveness, with input from the private sector.  Indiana climbed into the upper echelon based on strong movement in the ‘Cost of Doing Business’ category (from 12^th in 2007 to 6^th this year) and overall Economy (48^th to 37^th), as well as improvements in Education, Business Friendliness, Quality of Life and Transportation (more kudos for our growing logistics sector).

 The value of rankings is arguable, but I post this as one more indicator of our state’s (and region’s) positive economic momentum.  Our friends at the Indy Partnership (www.IndyPartnership.org) also detail this story on their blog, and offer much more statistical data and news on recent business attraction wins.