East Central Mississippi offers the best choices for automotive suppliers and distributors, especially those who are planning to supply the Nissan plant in central Mississippi, companies that work with the expanding Mercedes plant in Alabama, and the Honda Odyssey assembly plant in Lincoln, Alabama.

Here, in East Central Mississippi, you will find an excellent network of highways and rail transportation enabling just-in-time delivery to the Nissan, Mercedes,and Honda plants.

Incentives, skilled available workforce, transportation - These are just the beginning of the advantages of doing business in East Central Mississippi.

We're Where You Need To Be!

• Location, location, location. Check out the map, and you'll see that we're posed between the expanding Mercedes plant in Alabama and the new Nissan plant in Mississippi.

• Choose East Central Mississippi, and you'll have the proximity today's manufacturing schedule requires. Receive raw materials and deliver finished goods - just in time!

• Commercial airports in the region link you to domestic and international markets.

• Stable tax base, pro-business government, new economic development incentives, customized workforce training, tax abatements and credits.

User Friendly Workforce

• Five of Mississippi's 15 community colleges are located in East Central Mississippi, with customized job-planning, re-training and pre-employment programs. The state sponsors no-cost or low-cost employee training.
  

• Universities offer several business, industrial and engineering degrees as well as research and support in industry-related fields. Mississippi State University, located in Starkville, in one of America's top 100 research universities.

• Tradition of craftsmanship, independence and a strong work ethic, one of the nation's lowest unionization rates; right-to-work guaranteed in Mississippi Constitution.

• Team oriented, motivated and highly productive workers; competitive wages; stable unemployment and workers' compensation costs.