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Business Serving Business Resource Fair & Expo
When: Thursday, January 29, 2015, 11:00am - 4:00pmWhere: Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 East University Avenue Are you new in business or looking to expand? If so, this is your opportunity to connect to: Financing tools and services Business customers Network with professionals Business consultants Business products & services And get your questions answered Pre-Event Discussion • 10:00am • FREE/RSVP RequestedHELP WANTED! How do YOU find, train, and keep good employees?Job to Career...
$4.5 Million Available to Help Small Businesses Meet Lending Requirements
New Mexico Economic Development (NMEDD) Secretary Jon Barela announced that New Mexico's State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) has disbursed $8,605,922 in SSBCI funds to help small businesses grow and create jobs, according to the latest Quarterly Report from the U.S. Treasury Department. New Mexico has $4,562,428 available to New Mexico companies until July 2015. "Creating new jobs and helping small business grow remains a top priority in New Mexico, because small, private businesses...
Local Coalition to Present Legislative Initiatives on January 6th
Bill Connor, chair of the Doña Ana County Legislative Coalition (DACLC) will be the featured speaker at the January MVEDA Business in the Borderplex Forum. The coalition annually develops an agenda of legislative initiatives of importance to Southern New Mexico to be presented during the legislative session. Conner will detail this year’s initiatives as developed by the various coalition members. The initiatives include Capital Appropriations requests on behalf of the City of Las Cruces, Doña...
Local Companies Receive Job Training Incentive Program Funding
The New Mexico Economic Development Department's Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) board approved $500,427.95 in funding at its November meeting to five companies that will create 78 jobs in New Mexico. The new jobs will average $14.25. In October the board approved $613,839 in funding to eight companies that will create 88 jobs, averaging $16.66. The companies included two recent expansions in the New Mexico Borderplex. CN Wire Corporation, Santa Teresa - CN Wire is the U.S. affiliate of...
NMSU Schedules 10th Annual Career Connections Career Fair
The 10th Annual Career Connections Career Fair is a two-day career fair, co-sponsored by NMSU Career Services and the College of Engineering. About 40% of the employers attend both days, so for your maximum exposure and quality time with the candidates we hope you can spend two days with us. The Career Connections Career Fair is open to all interested candidates from freshman through community members and guests. Discuss career plans and help students discover skills required from academics...
New Mexico’s 3rd Quarter Exports to Mexico Exceeds $1 Billion
The New Mexico Economic Development Department announced that New Mexico exported $1,082,000,000 in goods to Mexico according to the third quarter report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. This is first time exports to Mexico have surpassed $1 billion. The 2014 third quarter number also exceeds the record yearly number which was in 2013 at $800,733,264. “To have surpassed our yearly record in just three quarters symbolizes what great progress New...
Customs and Border Protection Opens Facility at Santa Teresa Jetport
On November 7, 2014, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Doña Ana County inaugurated CBP's new state-of-the-art facility for processing international flights and cargo at the Santa Teresa Jetport in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The new 2,000-square-foot facility is equipped with baggage sensors, x-ray machines, interrogation room, and holding cell. The building also features a waiting area, bathrooms, a search room, agricultural lab, and general office space. The new facility, which will be...
Arrowhead Center Celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week
November 17- 21, 2014 Monday - Entrepreneurship RoundtableA "think tank" meeting in which entrepreneurs and business leaders from Southern New Mexico come together to discuss ideas and priorities for creating jobs and business opportunities for New Mexicans. ACI then turns those ideas into action in Santa Fe, local governments, and around the state. When: November 17, 2014Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PMRSVP Required: elayer@aci-nm.org. Tuesday - Open Coffee KickoffAn informal gathering of...
NM Jobs Council Update on December 2nd
Mark Lautman, CEcD, will be the featured speaker at the December MVEDA Business in the Borderplex Forum. Mark has been asked by House Speaker Martinez and Senate Pro Tem Papen to take the leadership of the House and Senate through a process to clarify an economic development agenda for the state. Mark will provide an update on recent findings of a series of statewide workshops at the meeting. The final results and recommendations will be presented to the New Mexico Legislature in January. The...
High Tech Meeting Features Water Resources Research Institute Director
The November High Tech Consortium (HTC) of Southern New Mexico membership meeting will be on Friday, November 21, 2014 at the Hotel Encanto, 705 S. Telshor, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. The meeting feature will Dr. Sam Fernald, Director of the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (NM WRRI). The NM WRRI, one of 54 water institutes in the nation, encourages university faculty statewide to pursue critical areas of water resources research while providing training opportunities for students,...
