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Virginia Economic Review

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Brightpoint Community College students in a lab Pharmaceutical manufacturer Civica Rx expanded into Virginia in 2021, building a sterile injectable drug manufacturing facility in Petersburg. The company turned to the Virginia Talent Accelerator Program to fill approximately 300 positions.

Bespoke Training for Emerging Workforce Needs

New or expanding companies want to know that they will be able to hire workers with the skills they need. While outside training providers offer established but generic faculty, facilities, and programs, in-house solutions allow for customization but require significant investment.
Volkswagen Interior Volkswagen Group of America, Fairfax County

The Best of Both Worlds

In 2020, roughly 12 years after Volkswagen relocated its North American headquarters from the Detroit area to Fairfax County, the company faced a choice. With the end of the lease on its Herndon office space looming, would it move to Atlanta, where its Porsche subsidiary is located, or another city?
SYKES Enterprises, Inc., Wise County SYKES Enterprises, Inc., Wise County

High Tech Comes to the Coalfields

The year 2006 marked a turning point for the town of Lebanon, for Russell County, and for the Southwest corner of Virginia: CGI, a Canadian company with a strong presence in tech-heavy Northern Virginia, located its first U.S. onshore delivery center in Lebanon.
Gatekeeper Intelligent Security Gatekeeper Security, Inc. used VEDP funding to exhibit at trade shows in Germany and Singapore.

Bespoke Export Support

Virginia Offers Best-in-Class Export Assistance for Companies' Complete Life Cycle Exporting can be a strong strategy for connecting companies with demand or diversifying their market bases to better weather economic conditions.
Lidl Homepage Lidl, Spotsylvania County

Home Away From Home

International Companies Find Advantages in Locating U.S. Headquarters in Virginia Foreign companies looking for a launching point to serve the U.S. and North American markets have many choices on where to plant their flag. Virginia has proven fruitful as that launching point for many of them.
Cape Henry Associates, Hampton Roads Cape Henry Associates, Virginia Beach

From Boots to the Boardroom

Virginia's Veterans are a Natural Fit for Corporate Headquarters Virginia is home to 30 military installations and more than 721,000 veterans. It’s also home to 36 Fortune 1000 companies (eighth among U.S. states) and 2,300 corporate headquarters operations (seventh).