Podcast
Episode 38 – Capturing Reshoring Investments to the U.S.
Site Selection Matters host Rick Weddle, President and CEO of the Site Selectors Guild, speaks with René Buck, President and CEO of BCI Global, about increasing chances for reshoring of production from Asia to the US.
Episode 37 – Incentive Compliance Management During COVID-19
In this week's episode of Site Selection Matters, Rick Weddle speaks with Larry Gigerich of Ginovus about incentive compliance management issues in the COVID-19 impacted economic environment.
Episode 36 – Manufacturing Re-shoring: Post-COVID 19 Tipping Point
In this week's episode of Site Selection Matters, Guild President Rick Weddle speaks with Greg Burkart, Managing Director and Practice Leader with Duff & Phelps, about how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the dynamics of manufacturing location activity around the world. Greg explores manufacturing re-shoring and how it will impact stated, regions and cities in the years ahead.
Episode 35 – Insights into Location Resilience as a Factor in the Post-Pandemic Era
This episode takes a deep dive into site location in the post-pandemic era as Rick Weddle interviews a distinguished panel of Guild members about economic resilience. Listen as Mark Williams, President of the Strategic Development Group, Angelos Angelou, founder and Principal Executive Officer of Angelou Economics, Von Hatley, Managing Director of Jones Walker Consulting, Jerry Szatan, owner of Szatan & Associates, Ken Maly, Senior Managing Director for Location Strategy with Newmark Knight Frank, and Seth Martindale, Senior Managing Director of CBRE share their informed insights into how location resilience will impact site location in the future. If you listen to one podcast this year, this should be it!
Episode 34 – Site Location in the Post COVID-19 Era
Guild President and CEO Rick Weddle talks with Tom Stringer, Managing Director and Service Leader for Site Selection and Incentives with BDO, about site location work in the Post COVID-19 Era.
Episode 33 -Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Redrawing Europe’s Borders
Elias van Herwaarden of Location Perspectives talks with Guild President Rick Weddle about how the COVID-19 pandemic may be redrawing Europe's economic borders.
Episode 32 – Reshoring in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mark Williams, President of the Strategic Development Group, discusses the concept of reshoring with Guild President, Rick Weddle. Hear how reshoring is impacting economic development and how COVID-19 is impacting the site location business overall.
Episode 31 – Incentives in the Age of COVID-19
Listen to Andy Shapiro with Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Company talk with Guild President Rick Weddle about the state and local financial incentive climate in the post COVID-19 economic environment.
Episode 30 – So, You Had an Investment Attraction Strategy. What Now?
In this episode of Site Selection Matters, Guild President Rick Weddle talks with Andreas Dressler of Location Decisions about investment attraction strategies in the post-COVID-19 world in which we live today.
Episode 29 – Food Industry Trends in the Time of COVID-19
Guild president Rick Weddle interviews Jerry Szatan, Founder and Principal of Szatan & Associates, about current food industry trends and how this sector wiill be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jerry takes a deep dive into the overarching trends that are most prevalent in the food industry today and how these trends may be impacted by consumer shifts and operational changes amidst COVID-19.
Episode 28 – The Impact of COVID-19 on Manufacturers and Supply Chains
Listen to host Rick Weddle interview Michelle Comerford, Guild board member and Industrial and Supply Chain Practice Lead at Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Company, about the effect of COVID-19 on manufacturers and the manufacturing supply chain. Hear how we can expect the crisis to shift the way both manufacturers and consumers operate as we look toward recovery from this global crisis.
Episode 27 – When Site Selection Goes International
In this week' episode, host Rick Weddle, President of the Site Selectors Guild, interviews Dennis Donovan, Principal of Wadley Donovan Gutshaw Consulting, about the site selection process abroad. Dennis walks us through the site selector's role in international corporate location decisions and how International Promotion Agencies (IPAs) can better position communities abroad for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).