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BR chamber summarizes year’s progress
Business Report
December 30, 2009
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber says that in 2009 it achieved significant progress in a number of focus areas, including business recruitment and retention, education, small business, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, transportation, and work force.
For 2009, BRAC set a target number of 800 jobs secured through its business development efforts. Due to a total of 14 project wins, the actual number was 1,799, exceeding the target by approximately 125 percent. Of the overall job number, 848 jobs were retained and 951 were new to the Capital Region.
“Even in the face of one of the nation’s most difficult economic periods of all time, we have been able to maintain our focus on the factors that matter most — creating and maintaining jobs and improving our region’s competitiveness,” said Adam Knapp, BRAC’s President and CEO.
An in-depth presentation of BRAC’s 2009 accomplishments can be found on its Web site at www.brac.org/agenda.
