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Here in Giddings, TX, we want all of our residents and residential businesses to stay up to date on local, regional, and national business news. One way we are ensuring this is by creating an online news center on our local economic development website. This news center is free t...Continue Reading

Why are more businesses choosing to locate in Giddings, TX? There are several reasons why businesses are choosing Giddings and finding success. Giddings is located just 55 miles from Austin and 106 miles from Houston at the intersection of Highways 290 and 77. This makes Giddings an ideal location fo...Continue Reading

Giddings, TX, is home to several amazing businesses! Businesses big and small are succeeding on a large scale here. We have businesses in many diverse industries making it the perfect place for any business idea to become a success. Some of these successful industries include Agriculture, Oil and Gas Extraction...Continue Reading

Giddings, TX, is a pro-growth and pro-business community. Our economic development corporation strives to invest in projects and businesses that will help the local economy grow and create jobs. One of the ways we accomplish this is by providing site selectors and business owners, looking for a location, with detaile...Continue Reading

Giddings, TX, continues to grow in its population and its number of successful businesses. We offer several free online tools to site selectors that are looking for the perfect location to locate their businesses. One of these tools in our new community comparison tool. This tool is designed to hel...Continue Reading

Businesses are quickly learning the advantages of locating in Giddings, TX! Giddings is located in the heart of  Texas just an hour east of Austin and an hour and a half west of Houston. This makes Giddings an ideal location for businesses and commuters alike! Highways 290 and 77 bot...Continue Reading

Businesses in Giddings, TX, have the advantage of being able to choose from our very talented and hard-working workforce! Located in the heart of Texas, just an hour away from Austin, Giddings has a plentiful and diverse labor force to choose from. There are over 100,000 potential workers within ...Continue Reading

Located in the heart of Texas, Giddings is a rapidly rising city for both population and business, and for good reason! Giddings is located just 55 miles from Austin and 106 miles from Houston. This makes it the perfect place to live for commuters and the perfect place for businesse...Continue Reading

Back in the 1980s, the term “offshoring” became a business buzzword as more and more U.S. companies moved manufacturing to foreign countries, typically to save on labor costs. In recent years, “reshoring” has been added to the lexicon as companies decide to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., for variou...Continue Reading

AD: How has COVID-19 changed the employee experience in manufacturing, and what facets of this should organizations retain going forward? Zenk: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees have been experiencing a drastically different work environment. Thousands of manufacturers across the U.S. and around the world were deemed essential during the pandemic...Continue Reading

The world as we all knew it changed earlier this year with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seemingly overnight, everything that we used to think was normal had changed, and things that once were deemed impossible for the workplace became the “new normal.” Now, seven months later, most o...Continue Reading

In a year full of turmoil and strife caused by an unexpected pandemic, data centers were quickly recognized for their crucial presence in all lives, for maintaining communication and knowledge during a period of sudden change for humanity. Data center operators and major services held fast throughout the troubled, early day...Continue Reading

Does tech investment follow tech talent or the other way around? It’s actually some of both. The question going forward, says Colin Yasukochi, executive director of the Tech Insights Center at CBRE, is the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic could upset longstanding equations and trends as 2021 unfolds into th...Continue Reading

Texas is becoming a popular state for corporations looking for the optimum business climate, and it’s due in large part to the work of Texas’ more than 700 economic development organizations (EDOs) serving 25 metropolitan areas, more than 40 micropolitan areas and greater than 1,200 incorporated cities in Texas. W...Continue Reading

There is not a day that goes by where we don’t talk about the COVID pandemic. It is on the news, in our social feeds and it has infiltrated both our personal and professional worlds. Many businesses have shifted employees to a work-from-home routine; changing everything about how the busines...Continue Reading

Pavlik and Associates, a public relations firm in Fort Worth, Texas, specializing in public and corporate engagement, has been selected to conduct a review of skilled training needs for aerospace companies locating at the 105-acre site at Raleigh County Memorial Airport. “The development of aerospace manufacturing and innovation opportunities is on...Continue Reading

If you missed these webinars, you can still check out all the great content we covered in these two fantastic sessions. Enjoy practical solutions and words of wisdom and experience from your colleagues in the industry. Digital Strategies to Support Your Area Businesses Your location's businesses of all sizes need as muc...Continue Reading

In 2020, American venture capitalists invested an unprecedented $156 billion dollars into 12,254 startups, setting records in biotech, pharma and fintech. There were a record 454 initial offerings in the U.S. markets, generating over $167 billion. But pull out a map, and you’ll see a country full of small-scale entrepreneurs wh...Continue Reading

Have you ever seen one of those 50-page business plans that go into detail about every conceivable aspect of a still purely theoretical business? You probably have, since those business plans have been the industry standard for decades. Yet, in a world where words like lean and agile are becoming the new norm for startups...Continue Reading

These 10 reasons why your economic development website isn't attracting remote workers may be why you're experiencing a lack of success. NEARLY 62% of employees already work remotely at least part of the time, and that number continues to grow as social distancing and COVID safety protocol remain intact. It's of prim...Continue Reading

AUSTIN — Texas ended 2020 as the No. 1 exporting state in the United States for the 19th consecutive year, more evidence of the strength and resilience of the state’s economy, said Robert Allen, president and CEO of the Texas Economic Development Corporation. “Texas has developed a remarkable track record of economi...Continue Reading

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million recovery assistance grant under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) to the Victoria County Navigation District in Texas to make railway infrastructure improvements to support business and job growth at the Port of Victoria. The EDA grant...Continue Reading

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A massive investment may soon be coming to Austin: Samsung Austin Semiconductor is considering building a multi-billion dollar chipmaking plant at its campus in north Austin. Documents with the Texas comptroller show the company filed an application for Chapter 313 property tax breaks from the Manor Independent School Distric...Continue Reading

“TMA praises Governor Abbott for prioritizing three important tools to help Texas physicians care for patients: Telemedicine, so we can safely and efficiently serve more of our patients through the pandemic and beyond; improved broadband service to more Texans, so they can access telemedicine care from their doctor regardless o...Continue Reading