Best and Worst States for Business

According to Development Counsellors International, South Carolina has the third best business climate in the nation.  Illinois ranked 48^th. 

2011 Winning Strategies

By Ryan on September 15, 2011in

Best and Worst States for Business

http://www.aboutdci.com/?s=best+states+for+business&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

Development Counsellors forms their view by surveying more than 300 corporate executives with site selection responsibilities.  The fact that DCI makes a living marketing localities and companies may make their methods and survey suspect but the results are close to those developed each year by CNBC which uses 40 different metrics in ten categories of competitiveness to do their rankings.

In the DCI survey, Texas got 49% of the votes for best business climate while California got 70% of the votes for worst. 

After that, things are less decisive;  North Carolina is second with 28% and South Carolina third with 14%;  Tennessee and Florida got 14% too.

New York got 47% of the vote for 49^th and Illinois captured 48^th with 24% of the vote;  New Jersey got 24% too. 

Michigan got only 16% of the votes for 46^th place.  How in the world could any state be a worse place for business than Michigan?  Oh, I remember;  under the current Administration, Michigan is too big to fail – no risk, unless you’re a bond holder.

See the full results here:  http://www.cmta.net/archive/DCIs_Winning_Strategies_2002.pdf.

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