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For Immediate Release
Tampa Bay Partnership Named One of the Nation’s
Top Economic Development Groups for 2001 by Site Selection Magazine
Cincinnati, May 8, 2002- KMK Consulting Company is proud to announce that its client, the Tampa Bay Partnership, was recently awarded honorable mention as one of the top economic development organizations in the country by Site Selection Magazine, one of the foremost economic trade publications in the nation. KMK Consulting serves as Tampa Bay Partnership's strategic consultant as well as its consultant on capital formation. Jim McGraw, President and CEO of KMK Consulting, was the original architect of this public/private partnership which brought the region together for the first time to promote a common economic development agenda. In addition, the Consulting Company was recently retained to direct the TBP’s major strategic planning process, build a new budget, as well as reinvent its corporate development and investor affairs operation. Jim McGraw said, “We are extremely proud of the accomplishments the Tampa Bay Partnership has made and the recognition it has received. I have been fortunate to be a part of the Partnership since its inception and have enjoyed working with many of Tampa’s key stakeholders in the private and public sectors to strengthen the region’s economy.” To read the article in May’s Site Selection Magazine, click here.
About KMK Consulting
KMK Consulting provides business consulting services, primarily to corporate, entrepreneurial, not-for-profit, community and executive clients. KMKC specializes in advisory services in connection with company restructuring; business formation; acquisitions; strategic issue analysis; strategic planning; leadership development; government affairs; economic development; marketing strategies; business alliances and public/private partnerships. Collectively, the KMKC team has extensive expertise with all types and sizes of corporations including experience serving on boards of directors of a variety of enterprises from family businesses to publicly held global companies. Learn more at www.kmkconsulting.com.
About the Tampa Bay Partnership
The Tampa Bay Partnership is the private, independent, not-for-profit, marketing organization serving Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota counties. Founded in 1994, the Partnership's mission is to increase market visibility for the Tampa Bay region and to facilitate and expedite the site selection process for relocating and expanding companies. The counties and cities of Tampa Bay fully recognize the concept of synergism: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The effectiveness as a combined organization is many times greater than that of independent efforts. Learn more at www.tampabay.org . |
