Site Selection

Facility Planning

Workforce Development

Business+Place

AD Editorial Board

Aaron Ahlburn

Managing Director and Senior Director, Research, JLL
Amy Gerber

Executive Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield
Bill Luttrell

Senior Locations Strategist, Werner Global Logistics, Werner Enterprises
Bradley Migdal

Senior Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Brian Corde

Managing Partner, Atlas Insight
Dan Levine

Practice Leader, Location Strategies and Economic Development, Oxford Economics, Inc.
Dan White

Senior Economist, Moody's Analytics
Dean J. Uminski, CEcD

Partner, Crowe Horwath
Dennis Cuneo

Partner , Fisher & Phillips
Eric Stavriotis

Senior Vice President, Advisory & Transaction Services, CBRE, Inc.
Gregory Burkart

Managing Director and City Leader, Site Selection & Incentives Advisory , Duff & Phelps, LLC
H. Robert Boehringer, III

Managing Director, Global Location & Expansion Services, KPMG
Josh Bays

Principal, Site Selection Group, LLC
Joshua Wright

VP, Economic and Workforce Development, Emsi
Kate Crowley

Principal & Negotiated incentives Practice Leader, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Les Cranmer

Senior Managing Director, Savills Studley
Marc Beauchamp

President & CEO, The CAI Global Group
Margy Sweeney

Founder and CEO, Akrete, Inc.
Minah Hall

Managing Director, True Partners Consulting LLC
Paul Naumoff

Principal, National Director of Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory Services, EY Global/Americas
Scott Kupperman

Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions
Stephen Gray

CEO, Gray Construction

PricewaterhouseCoopers: Trendsetter Barometer

The majority of business executives surveyed for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Trendsetter Barometer are optimistic about economic growth and job creation over the next 12 months.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

6/9/2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Trendsetter Barometer, a survey of 255 CEOs of privately held U.S. businesses, finds that executives surveyed highly anticipate an economic recovery for the next 12 months. Fifty-one percent of respondents said they were optimistic about domestic economic prospects, while only 11 percent said they were pessimistic.

The executives' responses indicate that economic forecasts both domestically and internationally are improving, and that hiring will pick up again. Executives expected higher prospective revenue growth for their companies over the next 12 months. Thirty-eight percent projected double-digit revenue growth, while only 5 percent expected negative growth. Along with expected gains, executives plan to spend more on operational costs, including new product and service introductions, information technology, and marketing and sales promotion.

These findings may also indicate a boost for the job market. Fifty-three percent of executives surveyed planned to hire over the next 12 months, while only 4 percent planned to lay off workers. But nearly three-quarters of respondents said lack of demand presents the biggest challenge to economic growth.