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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

President & CEO, 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

Michigan Funds More Than 7,180 New Jobs

Area Development News Desk

03/17/2010

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced today funding for 11 in-state companies and two brownfield redevelopment projects to expand their businesses and hire new workers. The projects will create more than 7,180 new jobs, retain more than 780 jobs, and generate more than $742 million in the state.

ADCO Products Inc., a producer of sealants and adhesives for construction and transportation, received a $1.2 million state tax credit over five years to encourage expansion in Michigan instead of Indiana.

Masco Cabinetry Company, which manufactures kitchen and bath cabinets, received a $7.3 million tax credit over 10 years to create new jobs, and a $5.7 million tax credit over 10 years to retain jobs.

Oshkosh Corporation, a manufacturer of emergency and military vehicles and equipment, received a $6.4 million state tax credit over 12 years to encourage expansion in Michigan instead of Wisconsin.

Toda America will receive a $7.9 million brownfield tax credit, and a $35 million grant from the U. S. Department of Energy.