Area Development: S.C. #2 state for doing business

October 21, 2012

For the third consecutive year, Area Development magazine’s editors have conducted a survey of a select group of highly respected location consultants who work with a nationwide client base. We asked the consultants to name their top-5 state choices in 14 site selection categories.

States were ranked in each of the 14 categories based on the number of times they were named as a “top-5” choice by the responding consultants. According to the results, the top-10 states for doing business are Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Indiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, in that order. Texas, which was cited more than 200 times overall, significantly led all other states as the consultants’ #1 choice for doing business. The top-five states were each mentioned in at least 8 of 14 categories.

There were many ties filling the top-five slots, and then the remaining states that were named by at least 25 percent of the respondents were listed as “Next Best.” However, in some categories, only four slots were filled because no other states had enough mentions to be listed.

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Area Developments Top 10 States for Doing Business
1.  Texas
2.  South Carolina
3.  Georgia
4.  Alabama
5.  North Carolina
6.  Louisiana
7.  Tennessee
8.  Indiana
9.  Mississippi
10.  Oklahoma