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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
Christine Bustamante

National Co-Leader, Global Location and Expansion Services, State and Local Tax, KPMG LLP
Dan Levine

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

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

Principal, Crowe Horwath
Dennis Cuneo

Managing Partner , Fisher & Phillips
Eric Stavriotis

Senior Vice President, CBRE, Inc.
Gregory Burkart

Managing Director and Practice Leader, Site Selection & Business Incentive Advisory Services, Duff & Phelps, LLC
Jamie Lominack

Corporate Real Estate Manager, Michelin North America
John Morris

SIOR, Industrial Services Lead for the Americas, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Josh Bays

Principal, Site Selection Group, LLC
Les Cranmer

Senior Managing Director, Savills Studley
Marc Beauchamp

Vice President & Partner, The CAI Global Group
Michael McDermott

Consulting Manager, Global Business Consulting, Cushman & Wakefield
Minah Hall

Managing Director, True Partners Consulting LLC
Scott Kupperman

Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions
Scott Redabaugh

Managing Director, JLL
Stephen Gray

CEO, Gray Construction
Thomas J. Stringer, Esq.

Managing Director & Practice Leader, Site Selection and Business Incentives Group, BDO USA
Tim Feemster

Managing Principal, Foremost Quality Logistics

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.