ECONOMIC GROWTH LUNCH & LEARN

EXPANDING OUR VIEW OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH

Where do our leads come from? • International and Domestic Travel • Trade Shows and Conferences • ED Partners (City, County, State, EDPNC, CRP, etc) • Relocation Consultants • Elected Officials • Brokerage Community • Direct • Chamber Members • Existing Companies and Contacts • Service Providers (law firms, CPAs, insurance brokers, banks, logistic providers, etc)

Once a lead becomes a project…

banks Law firms

CPA‘s Insurance

Immigration Attorneys

Foreign firms

Existing companies

Energy cost

taxes

logistics

Unemployment rate

Economic growth rate

Safety/crime rate

networks

Lease/purchase cost

IT

Housing market

Schools

Workforce cost

Universities

Cost of living

Industrial parks

Industry sectors

politics

Request for Information and Data

Banks Law firms

CPA‘s Insurance

Immigration Attorneys Headhunter

Chambers of Commerce

Utilities

Airlines

Rail roads

Logistics providers Department of Transportation

Governor

Politics Foreign firms

Universities

US Embassies and Consulates

Relocation firms

Schools

Department of Commerce

Housing brokers

Industrial and commercial Brokers

Industry Associations

Education systems

Elected officials

Existing companies Workforce agencies

Site Visit and Contacts

Talent and Workforce Development

Diversity and Talent Development • Emerging Business Leaders (EBL) • Charlotte Chamber Young Professionals (CCYP) • Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable • Power of Women (POW)*

Workforce Development and Education • Workforce Development and Education Committee • Career Connection:

- Diversity in Accounting - Future I.T. Talent

Diversity and Talent Development

Workforce Development and Education

Speakers Bureau

College Forum

Workforce Development and Education

Mentorship

Workforce Development and Education 2018 Committee Career/Industry Focus

HEALTHCARE hosted by (June 26)

ENERGY hosted by

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

hosted by TBD

Talent & Workforce 2018 Impact YTD

• About 33,000 people in Meck and 100,000 in Charlotte Region work in manufacturing.

• For example, The Charlotte MSA boasts nearly 5X the number of pump and compressor manufacturing jobs as the national average.

• Since 2012, 336 manufacturing companies have added 4,500 workers in Mecklenburg County.

• FDI is an important part of this. Since 2017, Advanced Manufacturing projects have accounted for 17% of chamber’s landed jobs and 48% of Chamber’s landed capital investment.

• Of those, 69% of jobs and 79% of capital investment has come from FDI companies.

BUILDING AN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ECOSYSTEM

Strategies & Tactics

START UP HIGH GROWTH GROWTH SCALING SMALL

HIGH IMPACT/POTENTIAL HIGH IMPACT

ASPIRING EMERGING SUSTAINED

“EO** Accelerator

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“VISTAGE” “MIT”**

“EO** Accelerator

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** Partnership Opportunity

“Joules”**

“Joules”**

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