Baton Rouge is ranked as the No. 2 city for economic development in the chemical and plastics industry in Conway Inc.’s new edition of “The World’s Most Competitive Cities” report, trailing only the Houston area and leading the Chicago, Cincinnati and and Dallas metro areas.
The report measures metro areas’ performance across 12 business sectors central to national and regional economies. At the report’s center is Conway Inc.’s proprietary Conway Projects Database, which tracks private-sector corporate facility investments worldwide. Conway Inc., which is the publisher of Site Selection magazine, partners with Moody’s Analytics, Oxford Economics and Tractus Asia to annually publish the index of recent economic development success and future potential in metro areas across the globe.
The profile of Baton Rouge in the 162-page report includes high praise from IBM’s Christine Alford, general manager of the company’s North America service centers.
“I have worked in a lot of different places around the world, and I have never seen a community so committed to improving their environment and enhancing their city,” says Alford on IBM’s new technology center in the city.
On Monday, Site Selection magazine ranked Louisiana as having the nation’s fourth-best business climate in the country.
