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TBIC Corporate Members support the TBIC Team and European companies with their specialized know-how and network. They provide valuable experience in helping European companies to expand to the United States successfully.

American Electric Power

AEP Economic and Business Development

Headquarter : Columbus, OH

Gold sponsor

As part of American Electric Power (AEP) – one of the largest utilities in the U.S. — AEP Economic and Business Development is your single source for comprehensive relocation or expansion services. Our team of economic development experts, combined with our unmatched 11-state geographic footprint, makes us an ideal location advisory partner. From site selection to energy planning to ongoing operations support, we manage every step of the process to help businesses find the right location for their facilities. We offer best-in-class research, access to over 2,400 communities, 600+ sites and properties, including dozens of project-ready industrial, data center and food processing certified sites, and access to the fastest growing shale plays in the U.S.

Entergy Mississippi

We Power Life

Headquarter : Jackson, MS

Silver sponsor

Entergy Mississippi, Inc. is an investor-owned utility that provides electricity to 449,000 residential and business customers. While primarily a provider of electricity, our business development team provides a full range of site selection services to help find you the right location. From your initial site or building search to your beginning of oper- ation, we can help every step of the way. With affiliate companies in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, we’ll help you find the optimal loca- tion. All services are free of charge and confidential.

Gray

Engineering, Design, Construction

Headquarter : Lexington, KY

Silver sponsor

Gray is a fully integrated, international service provider deeply rooted in engineering, design, construction, smart manufacturing, and equipment manufacturing services. Consistently ranked among the top industrial firms, we focus on the following markets for domestic and international customers: Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Automotive, Distribution, Mission Critical, and Commercial. Our deep understanding of the global marketplace, trade, and regulations, enables us to develop partnerships that achieve goals and reflect customers’ values and traditions, on U.S. soil and around the world. With over 70% of Gray’s manufacturing projects with international customers locating or expanding in the U.S., our team is more than equipped and positioned to meet the highest standards of excellence for European companies.

Mississippi Power

Headquarter : Gulfport, MS

Silver sponsor

Mississippi Power is committed to providing clean, safe, affordable and reliable electricity to the 23 counties in Southeast Mississippi. Founded in 1924, Mississippi Power is a member of Southern Company, the second largest energy company in the United States. Mississippi Power’s Economic Development department is a full service economic development organization that serves as a one-stop resource for economic development in Mississippi. Our seasoned team of professionals bring a wealth of engineering, legal, military and international affairs expertise. With extensive market experience, critical contacts, knowledge of available and ready now sites, Mississippi Power’s team can assist with making the right connections to make the process seamless.

TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

Headquarter : Knoxville, TN

Silver sponsor

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power companies serving nearly 10 million people in parts of seven south-eastern states. TVA’s mission is to serve the people of the Valley territory, through providing reliable, low-cost power in an environmentally sustainable manner, and through economic development. TVA Economic Development works to attract new business and investment, engage with existing industry and customers, and serve through partnership to help foster economic growth.

abatAdah Group, Inc.

Headquarter : Birmingham, AL

Bronze sponsor

abat is an international SAP service provider and product supplier with over 600 employees globally. abat is an SAP Gold Partner, with SAP Recognized Expertise in Automotive, Consumer Products, Supply Chain Management, and Travel and Transportation. Founded in 1998, abat has worldwide offices in Germany, the United States, Mexico, and Belarus. Our primary focus is on your satisfaction and the satisfaction of our employees. abat provides more than just professional competence, which is particularly important for complex SAP implementations or the integration of SAP into existing systems. We emphasize constructive dialog with our customers, with a special focus on your sector and the associated special requirements. abat’s primary focus is on the automotive, discrete manufacturing, and logistics sectors. We consult in all phases of IT service management: IT orientation, business processes, development, implementation and maintenance of standard solutions. Adah International, Inc. is an industrial engineering and project management company with over 30 years’ experience supporting both government and industry in Europe and the Americas. Adah International accomplishes the extensive, outlying needs of its customers, allowing them to concentrate more on their core products and services. Our experience, along with our extensive network of clients and multipliers, are the hallmarks of our success. Adah specializes in Complete Project Management for the overall planning, coordination, and management of a project from beginning to completion.

ElectriCities of North Carolina

The energy behind public power

Headquarter : Raleigh, NC

Bronze sponsor

ElectriCities is the energy behind public power. For more than 50 years, ElectriCities has helped North Carolina public power communities provide safe, reliable and affordable power to their customers. ElectriCities serves more than 1.2 million people in North Carolina public power communities, including 32 members of the N.C. Eastern Municipal Agency (NCEMPA) and 19 members of N.C. Municipal Power Agency #1 (NCMPA1).

H&M Company, Inc.

Our mission is to help our customers achieve success.

Headquarter : Jackson, TN

Bronze sponsor

H&M Company, Inc. is a national full-service engineering, construction and real estate development firm offering a full range of Plan-Design-Build services for projects throughout North America. We were founded in 1957 near Jackson, Tennessee, and we’re still headquartered there today. Throughout our 63 years in business, H&M has continually improved and expanded our capabilities to meet our customers’ ever-changing needs. While achieving significant growth in our customer base and revenues our mission remains the same: To Help Our Customers Achieve Success.

JESCO

80 Years Focused on Constructing Manufacturing Facilities with Safety, Commitment, Passion and Integrity.

Headquarter : Tupelo, MS

Bronze sponsor

JESCO Construction is a design-build firm that provides Engineering Services, Construction, Mechanical-Electrical, Steel Fabrication, Equipment Installation, Industrial Services, and Millwright to form a fully integrated construction company. We can take your project from concept — to design — to construction — to start-up and testing. With the combined creative talents and technical expertise of crafts- men from diverse segments of the construction and engineering fields, JESCO delivers on its commitments. Project after project for 80 years JESCO has designed, built, and started-up manufacturing projects to the full satisfaction of our customers’ time and budget constraints.

Kentucky's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives

Data Is Power ... We Supply Both

Headquarter : Winchester, KY

Bronze sponsor

In the world of economic development and site selection, we know “Data Is Power” in making business decisions. Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives provide safe, reliable electricity to over 2/3 of Kentucky through a diverse generation mix that enables 100% renewable energy options in the center of the United States including the first Carbon Neutral Bourbon Distillery in the world. We also assist companies from around the world to make site selection decisions on where to make their next investment. To help, we have created state-of-the-art tools including our international award winning mobile app PowerMap with PowerVision drone flights that include digital terrain models as well as virtual buildings to demonstrate the real capabilities of some of the best industrial sites in the United States.

SENATOR INTERNATIONAL

First Class Service

Headquarter : Hamburg, Germany / Miami, FL, USA

Bronze sponsor

SENATOR INTERNATIONAL provides comprehensive international freight, shipping, logistics, warehousing and distribution services to customers located throughout the world. Our decades of expertise ensure that your shipments are transported on schedule, clear customs without delays, and reach their destination on time, every time. We combine the strengths of a company that operates globally with the sensibilities of a team that has never forgotten its small business origins. With superior transparency in our operations, access to all levels of management within our organization, and the flexibility to tailor solutions to your needs, we consistently deliver exceptional value and service.

Spire Inc.

Energy that Advances

Headquarter : St. Louis

Bronze sponsor

At Spire, we believe energy exists to help people. To warm homes, grow businesses and move communities forward. Every day, we have the privilege of serving 1.7 million homes and businesses across Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi. We’re dedicated to understanding our customers’ needs and goals to better serve them today and tomorrow. As the fifth-largest publicly traded natural gas company in the country, we are committed to growing our business, leading our industry and redefining what it means to serve our customers. This commitment is reflected in our mission to: answer every challenge, advance every community and enrich every life through the strength of our energy. We want to be more than your energy provider. We want to be your collaborative energy partner.

JMWilliams

People Before Plans

Headquarter : Marietta, GA

Corporate Member

JMWilliams Contractors is a general contractor that focuses on in- dustrial construction projects in the Southeastern United States. Since 2001, our clients have hired us for our leadership and industry know-how that creates an exceptional building experience and prod- uct. We understand that before a pen has been put to a plan, you’ve already invested a lot and want a partner who understands your needs, requirements, and expectations. Our team has many years of experience in industrial construction and knows what it takes to run a quality job. From manufacturing to production to warehouse construction, our experience and expertise enable us to consistently serve our clients by creating state-of-the- art facilities. At JMWilliams Industrial, we give you peace of mind and build you a great building.

Miller Valentine Construction

Building Certainty

Headquarter : Cincinnati, OH

Corporate Member

For more than 55 years, Miller-Valentine Construction has worked in close collaboration with businesses and organizations when they are ready to build, renovate, or expand. With offices located in Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, and Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina, we have constructed over 120 million square feet of commercial and industrial real estate for local, national and International clients in over 25 states. We offer a full range of delivery methods to best fit our client’s needs, including Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Design Build Construction, and Construction Management, along with pre-construction support, design assistance, and value engineering. We have built our company on a deep commitment to quality, integrity and certainty. This legacy drives us every day.

SSOE Group

Designing and building the future for our clients, colleagues, and communities.

Headquarter : Toledo, OH

Corporate Member

SSOE is a global project delivery firm for architecture, engineering, and construction management with extensive experience helping clients navigate their first time building on U.S. soil. SSOE understands the value of early collaboration—from developing criteria to budget alignment. We can work with your site selection team to provide a technical review of potential sites, and are positioned to support your project throughout its lifecycle anywhere in the U.S. using project delivery methods attuned to your expectations. As a Top 10 E/A Firm (BD+C), we have earned a reputation for providing quality project solutions to clients in the semiconductor, automotive, food, chemical, glass, manufacturing, healthcare, power, and general building industries.

T. W. Frierson Contractor

Creating a foundation for people to thrive

Headquarter : Nashville, TN

Corporate Member

T.W. Frierson Contractor, Inc. shares over half a century of expertise with every partner we meet. We offer a full range of construction management, and design-build services including estimates, architectural design assist, and even disaster recovery services. With our home in Nashville, Tennessee, we manage projects of all sizes across the Southeast. Our ownership culture provides our clients with a superior level of customer service, an unmatched level of expertise, and an entrepreneurial spirit driven by innovative thinking. This client focused combination keeps our customers back time and again.

The American Dream – US Visa Service

Go with the Experts

Headquarter : Berlin, Germany

Corporate Member

The American Dream – US Visa Service is Germany’s largest full service agency specialized in U.S. visas including work permits, and entry regulations. Since 1996, the government licensed emigration consultants support medium-sized businesses as well as major corporations with branch offices in the United States throughout the entire visa application process. Together with your personal visa consultant you will establish which visa category works best for the purpose of the stay and finalize it step-by-step. Regardless of whether it is a business trip, employee transfer or work assignment abroad. The service agency offers an extensive service matching your case. It allows direct processing with HR departments, employees, U.S. authorities and business sites in the United States, reducing your workload to a minimum.