Alabama is at the geographic heart of the nation’s fastest-growing region – the Southeastern United States. This puts Alabama in the center of the fourth-largest economy in the world. Almost forty years ago, Alabama’s technology put man on the moon. Today, Alabama remains an innovative leader in aerospace, automotive and biotechnology research.

Southern Business and Development magazine has four times in a row named Alabama "State of Year" most recently in 2006, based on its record of job growth and economic development. Growth in the automotive industry is only one example of Alabama's successful corporate investments. The state has long been home to many world-class companies including Mercedes, Wellborn Cabinets, Honda, 3M, Boeing and more recently EADS, Toyota and Hyundai.

For more information, please contact:

• Lee Lawson , Economic Development Project Manager
  PowerSouth Energy Cooperative
  e-mail: lee.lawson@powersouth.com
  Telephone: (334) 264.8199