STATE OF ALABAMA HIGHLIGHTS              

The reasons why investors choose Alabama

For years, Alabama has been known worldwide as an avant-garde center for U.S. space and defense research, and biotechnological andmedical research. Most recently, Alabama has become the number one choice for companies around the world to relocate and expand.

Alabama’s highlights include:

• Economic potential
• Business environment
• Strategic geographic location
• Global connectivity-accessibility
• Tax incentives-affordability
• Strong work force
• Excellent livability
• Welcoming Society
• Good climate
• Historic-cultural sites
• Recreational activities
• Educational opportunities
• Health care facilities

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MOST RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS

• Mobile, Alabama topped the Forbes Fastest Growing Metro list for 2008. Huntsville ranked 4th and Auburn-Opelika ranked 6th. (January 2008)

• Northrup Grumman and EADS North America wins the USAF contract to supply 179 KC-45 aerial refueling tankers to be assembled in Mobile, Alabama. (2008)

• Alabama was ranked 2nd among the TOP TEN COMPETITIVE STES OF 2007. The ranking criteria includes: Total new and expanded facilities per 1 million population, total new jobs created at new and expanded facilities, total actual number of new and expanded facilities, percentage growth in new and expanded facilities, among others.

• Site Selection Magazine names the German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp one of the top North American deals of 2007.

• Huntsville was ranked 16th on the 2007 Best Performing Cities report released by the Milken Institute (September 2007)

• Alabama's State-local tax burden was ranked among the 12 lowest in the country by a 2008 Tax Foundation Study.

• Alabama received the "Silver Shovel" award from Area Development magazine for its success in job creation in 2006. (July 2007)

• Daphne-Fairhope, Alabama was ranked 4th in Site Selection's Top 100 Micropolitan Areas for new and expanding industries. (March 2007)

• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) magazine ranks Hunstville as #1 U.S. Small City of the Future. (April 2007)

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