Embracing the Unknown: Annual Workforce Summit Hits Stride with Solutions-based Format

The Cincinnati region is no stranger to the national challenge of tight labor markets. But unlike many of our counterparts, we’re helping local companies take a collaborative, solutions-based approach to securing the workforce resources they need to thrive. Last year, when Congressman Warren Davidson ...

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Foreign Trade Zones and Supply Chains: How FTZs can help in an era of offshoring, onshoring, and omni-shoring

The globalized economy has been a remarkable achievement because raw materials, manufactured goods, and finished products are moved around the planet and delivered to end users via just-in-time supply chains to end-users. While this process involves long supply chains, they have been able to remain basically ...

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REDI Cincinnati’s 2023 Annual Report

REDI Cincinnati closed out its first decade supporting job growth and capital investment in the Cincinnati region in 2023. In collaboration with our partners across the 15-county, three-state region, commitments for growth exceeded 3,400 new jobs and over $1.1B in capital investment were secured. ...

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Growing and retaining businesses in Greater Cincinnati is all about removing obstacles to success

In economic development news, we often hear about projects that bring jobs and capital investment, so it might come as a surprise to learn that up to 80 percent of that growth is generated by companies that are already here. For that reason, promoting and maintaining a healthy local business community ...

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Local Food Manufacturer Announces Plans for West Chester Expansion

Midwest-based food manufacturer SugarCreek has announced a major investment in its West Chester location, adding 120 new jobs and investing $36 million in its Brandworthy Food Solutions food manufacturing business. SugarCreek offers comprehensive food processing, innovative packaging solutions, and ...

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Enable Injections completes manufacturing facility for on-body delivery systems

Enable Injections Inc., the developer of wearable medical devices that enable easy, at-home self-administration of high volume injectable drugs and biologics, opens its new Cincinnati manufacturing facility this month, the company announced today at the BIO meeting in San Francisco. Enable Injections’ ...

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Project Spotlight: Aprecia Pharmaceuticals

Aprecia is an emerging pharmaceutical company that uses proprietary ZipDose® Technology to transform the way people take medicine. The company’s first product, SPRITAM® (levetiracetam), is the first prescription drug product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that is manufactured ...

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FTZs Encourage International Trade

Foreign trade zones, or FTZs, have long been an essential means for global companies to manage the costs of their imported and exported goods. Now, in the evolving global trade environment, savvy businesses are finding that FTZs provide the additional benefit of protection from the rising costs of tariffs.What ...

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German Automation Leader Festo Finds the Cincinnati Region an Ideal Place to Invest for Growth in the U.S.

From the original distribution center to today’s thriving multi-functional campus, Festo prospers in Southwestern Ohio. By Kim Harper-Gage, Chief Operating Officer, Festo North America When Festo, a family owned $3 billion company with headquarters in Esslingen, Germany, selected Mason, Ohio, ...

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Semiconductors Shape Our World & Our Region

Microchips Make Today’s Tech Work, And Cincinnati Is Working To Make More Of Them. The Covid-19 pandemic had undeniable impacts on Cincinnati’s economic realities, and REDI Cincinnati’s Economic Vibrancy Comparison Report detailed many of these impacts, as well as documented the better-than-average ...

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