Time to go global: more foreign companies are investing in operations in South Florida--looking beyond the region's proximity to Latin America and hoping to capture the domestic market.(FOREIGN INVESTMENT)
From: South Florida CEO
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Date: 5/1/2007
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Author: Cohen, Karen-Janine; Hemlock, Doreen
Foreign-based companies have invested $26 billion in the State of Florida to-date, most of that in South Florida. That investment accounts for more than 230,000 jobs. Those are just United States Department of Commerce figures--which do not take into account massive real estate investments and often don't get the full picture of mergers and acquisitions.
It only takes a drive around the offices and warehouses near Miami International Airport to see how pervasive foreign ...
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