Overview - IAMC Fall Professional Forum, Minneapolis-St. Paul

Today’s business world is facing a climate of tight credit markets, slowing sales and eroding bottom lines. The Fall 2009 Professional Forum will present speakers and workshops that will help you create and conserve cash for your organization through consolidations, restructuring and disposals. We will also review the impact of the Federal Government’s TARP and stimulus packages on the credit markets and the business climate.

With a business-friendly climate and high quality of life, Minnesota is positively:

• Home to the city with more live theater seats per capita than any other city except New York: Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• Recognized by Forbes as the 14th best state for businesses in 2006. The home base of seven companies on Fortune’s "2006 Global 500" list.
• Centrally located, allowing businesses to select from truck, carload rail, water, intermodal rail and air transportation.
• Proud of Plymouth, Minnesota, which was ranked #1 on Money Magazine’s 2008 list of America’s best small cities, and Minneapolis-St. Paul, applauded as one of the safest cities in the nation by Gallup.

A global competitor, Minnesota exports to almost 200 countries around the world. Companies benefit from a 1990s initiative reducing property taxes, lowering workers’ compensation costs and eliminating the sales taxes on all capital equipment. Residents enjoy high quality education, transportation, and social and environmental services. In short, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, is positively a great place to grow a business.

Sources: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development; Fortune Magazine; Money Magazine