JobsOhio recently announced at its quarterly board meeting last week that should the projects in its current pipeline — totaling $3.3 billion in investments — come to fruition in 2013 or beyond, Ohio could see more than 50,000 new jobs, according The Columbus Dispatch. According to John Minor, chief investment officer of JobsOhio, “Overall in 2012, there were 289 projects that committed nearly 21,000 jobs to the state and retained 55,000 other jobs, led by strong growth in advanced-manufacturing and information-technology jobs … The capital investment on those projects totals $5.8 billion, up from $3.2 billion in 2011,” the article said.
Advancing its nine targeted high-growth business sectors, JobsOhio plans to better utilize its regional network partners in the coming year to “focus on keeping companies in the state and helping them to expand” as approximately “three-quarters of the new jobs that the state was able to win last year are from companies that are expanding existing operations here” in Ohio, the article said. For more, read the full story.
