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Here is today's summary of economic development news, a free service of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, representing Alabama's private sector investment in economic development.  If you enjoy NewsFlash, thank an EDPA Partner

 

In this issue:
Fairhope design firm tapped for latest phase of Airbus A320 assembly line in Mobile
Poultry processor to invest $25 million in Alabama operations
Mobile hosts NASA, aerospace companies for business development event
Honda Odyssey, made in Alabama, becomes first minivan to earn top safety award from IIHS
Muscle Shoals Culture Celebrated at Fifth Annual 'Shindig'
Registration underway for Alabama's only Innovation Conference

 


Fairhope design firm tapped for latest phase of Airbus A320 assembly line in Mobile

on August 29, 2013 

MOBILE, Alabama - Two more Mobile area firms have been tapped by Hoar Program Management for key contracts related to Airbus A320 final assembly line under construction at Brookley Aeroplex.

 

Fairhope-based Walcott Adams Verneuille Architects has been selected as the lead architectural firm for Package C of the $600 million project.

 

The Fairhope firm will work in tandem with Mobile-based Hargrove Engineers + Constructors and Oklahoma City-based Frankfurt Short Bruza Associates PC to complete the design work for this latest phase of the project. Hargrove and Frankfort have been working since mid-April on Package B of the future aircraft assembly complex's two main hangars.

 

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Poultry processor to invest $25 million in Alabama operations

on August 28, 2013

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. plans to invest $25 million in its operations in Alabama's Wiregrass, the company announced today.

 

The investment includes a new feed mill in Pinckard and a $10 million renovation of its poultry processing facility in Enterprise.

 

Construction of the feed mill will begin in the next 30 days, and the renovation will happen over the next six months. The feed mill, expected to employ more than 25 people, will replace an existing one in Enterprise.

 

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[al.com]

 

 


Mobile hosts NASA, aerospace companies for business development event 


MOBILE, Alabama - Representatives of NASA agencies and big-name aerospace companies will be in Alabama's Port City in early September for a business networking and trade show event that could result in new partnerships or contracts for small- and mid-sized firms.

 

The business-to-business forum, hosted by the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, is set for 8 a.m-3 p.m. Sept. 4 at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center at One South Water Street. The chamber said officials from several NASA agencies and prime contractors will deliver presentations and participate in a trade show meant to give local firms an opportunity to make personal contacts.

 

"You'll be able to do in one day, under one roof, what could take a normal person - if they were lucky - months to accomplish," said Danette Richards, the chamber's director of small business development.

 

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Honda Odyssey, made in Alabama, becomes first minivan to earn top safety award from IIHS

on August 29, 2013 

LINCOLN, Alabama -- The 2014 Honda Odyssey, which is assembled at the Japanese automaker's Talladega County factory, has earned the top safety award from theInsurance Institute for Highway Safety, becoming the first minivan to do so.

 

The Odyssey, named a Top Safety Pick Plus, received a good rating in all five IIHS crash evaluations. That included the challenging small overlap front test, which replicates what happens when the front corner of a car collides with another vehicle or object like a tree or utility pole.

 

IIHS ranks vehicles as good, acceptable, marginal or poor in crash tests including moderate overlap front, small overlap front, side, rollover and rear.

 

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[al.com]


 

 


 

Muscle Shoals Culture Celebrated at Fifth Annual 'Shindig'
August 27, 2013 

On Saturday morning, during a panel discussion titled Telling Stories in the Modern South, fashion designer Billy Reid blushed as he noted a rather surprising statistic - that Alabama has the third most members of the Council for Fashion Designers of America, ranking right after New York and Los Angeles. Speaking in a small but packed event space in downtown Florence, Alabama, just outside Muscle Shoals, Reid's statement proved quite an applause line to townspeople in the room. But such a display of local pride might be uncommon in the region.

 

 Florence native and fellow panelist John Paul White of the Civil Wars, whose band had the Number One album on Billboard earlier this month, offered a theory.

 

"We're taught as Southern[ers] - especially Southern men - that you don't get above your raisin'," he explained. "If you ever elevated your status where I was from, that's who got bullied."


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             Registration underway for Alabama's only Innovation Conference

 

Join the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama on Sept. 26-27 for the third annual Alabama Launchpad Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference that strives to celebrate the entrepreneurs and job creators who launch startups that help drive economic growth in the Alabama. We have a great lineup of speakers, including Gov. Robert Bentley and Alabama native Ted Alling, one of the South's leading entrepreneurs and managing partner of the Lamp Post Group, where he actively recruits and mentors other entrepreneurs. 

 

                                      Early Registration ends Monday

 

 

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Samford University grad Ted Alling, CEO Access America Transport

 

Brad Feld, TechStars co-founder.

 
 
William C. Taylor, Editor Fast Company

 

Andrew Chang, UPS Marketing Director

 


 

 

 

    

 

 




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