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Inland Northwest economic development specialist extraordinaire – Bob Potter

Seasoned economic development specialist Bob Potter has recruited more than 70 businesses to the Inland Northwest region since beginning his “second” career in 1987.

This 80-year-old has recruited companies – including famous knife manufacturer Buck Knives – that have generated 3,937 new jobs with an annual payroll of $98.2 million, and more than $328.5 million in capital investments primarily in the Coeur d’Alene area. Today, through the INEA Potter seeks to attract small to medium sized manufacturers and family owned businesses to the Inland Northwest from Southern California.

Listen to Potter discuss the site selection process for small businesses in the following Business Week Online podcast: http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/podcasts/smartanswers/smartanswers_01_24_07.htm?chan=search.

(Many thanks to Amy Fritsch of Rockey Hill & Knowlton Spokane for passing this along. Russ)

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Inland Northwest friendly for family-owned businesses

Bob Potter, chief business recruiter for the Inland Northwest Economic Alliance – a regional consortium of 11 economic development organizations – says that often “family members of succeeding generations have different lifestyle interests and seek a quality of life different than that of their parents and grandparents. They not only seek bottom line dividends through relocating their business, but lifestyle dividends as well.”

http://www.matr.net/article-22597.html

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