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The Factoids
- Gainesville-Hall County is the third-fastest growing metropolitan Area in the United States, according to 2009 Census reports.
- Gainesville-Hall County was ranked in 2007 among the Top 20 “Best Performing Cities” in America by the Milken Institute. The ranking is based on job creation and sustained economic growth.
- Forbes rated Gainesville-Hall County in its “Best Places for Business and Careers” - two years in a row (2008, 2009).
- Gainesville-Hall County is home to 67 Fortune 500 companies, including Wrigley’s, Liberty Mutual, Cargill, TRW, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, UPS, FedEx, Land ‘o Lakes, Reliance and Atmos Energy.
- With 39 international firms from 12 nations, Gainesville-Hall County has more international companies per capita than any metropolitan area outside Atlanta. They include ZF Industries, SKF, Elan Pharmaceuticals and Kubota.
- Gainesville-Hall County is a regional biotech center with a world-class stable of international life-sciences firms that include Elan Pharmaceutical, Merial, Theragenics, Kiel Pharmaceutical, Hall Bioscience, Cododose and the Georgia Poultry Science Laboratory.
- Gainesville’s innovative Featherbone Communiversity houses a business incubator that provides training and assistance to entrepreneurs and business start-ups.
- The Manufacturing Innovation Center at Lanier Technical College is Georgia’s state-of-the-art center for robotics, automation and control technologies in manufacturing.
- Lanier Technical College in southern Hall County is a premier training center in the Southeast for Lean Manufacturing and Ammonia Refrigeration Technologies.
- In 2009, Gainesville-Hall County demonstrated steady economic growth amid a national recession, creating over 350 new jobs and $53,000,000 in new capital investment by private industry.
- Gainesville-Hall County is a national base for the automotive parts supply business, serving nearby manufacturing plants for BMW, Volvo, Mercedes, Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen, GM, Ford and others.
- Gainesville-Hall County is Northeast Georgia’s regional center for retail, professional and medical services, serving a trade area of 16 counties and more than 1 million people.
- Gainesville-Hall County is the largest market for industrial space in North Georgia with more than 25 million square feet of industrial space ranging from 1,000 square feet of flex space to 500,000 square feet of manufacturing.
- Gainesville-Hall County is Georgia’s third-highest value producer of exports through Georgia’s deep-water ports.
- Gainesville-Hall County is the highest value producer of food-processing production in Georgia.
- Gainesville-Hall County has more goods-producing jobs, per capita, than any other community in North Georgia.
- Gainesville-Hall County is one of the top cities in Georgia in per-capita number of medical professionals.
