Success Stories in Manufacturing / Logistics

JMC Steel Group, the country’s largest manufacturer of tubular products, announced its intent to move the company’s corporate headquarters, including 100 new and retained executive positions to Chicago.

Steel company will retain more than 300 manufacturing jobs—and the possibility of hundreds more—in Chicago.

Mayor Daley and Ford Motor Company officials recently unveiled Ford’s 2011 Explorer, which will be built at the company’s South Side plant, creating approximately 1,200 new jobs.

MillerCoors Logo

The joint venture between SABMiller PLC and Molson Coors, has located its headquarters in downtown Chicago, bringing between 300 and 400 executive and management jobs to the City.

In 2009, Serious Materials, Inc. announced that it acquired the Chicago manufacturing plant of the former Republic Windows and Doors, where it will manufacture energy-efficient windows, hiring back the plant's employees into green-collar jobs.

Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate, officially opened its first U.S. Chocolate Academy alongside its new North American headquarters at 600 W. Chicago.

Arcelor Mittal Steel

Mittal Steel is based in the Netherlands and moved its U.S. headquarters, including 212 management workers into 1 S. Dearborn St., a new 40-story office tower. The employees had been based in Ohio and other cities in the Midwest.

Wrigley opened its global innovation center, a 200,000-square-foot office and lab complex in the summer of 2005 on the northern tip of Chicago’s Goose Island.  The center houses the company’s research and development, packaging, engineering, regulatory and quality-control departments. The world-class facility serves as the nerve center of the global confectioner's commitment to innovate, diversify and meet the needs of future generations of consumers.

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