Friday, September 7, 2012

NOG: #7 -- Fortune's Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies; $70 Million Expansion At Sugar Factory; Lowest Unemployment Rates in the US: Bismarck, #1; Fargo, #2; Grand Forks, #7

NOG is #7 on Fortune's 100 fastest-growing companies. All companies. Incredible 
Whiting Petroleum is #70. 
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Meanwhile, unemployment across the US:
  • Bismarck: #1
  • Fargo: #2
  • Grand Forks: #7
Healthiest states to live:
North Dakota among the top five: he happiest and healthiest state to live in the future may be Utah, according to a new Gallup poll that finds the Beehive State leads the nation in more than a dozen forward-looking metrics, such as intellectual curiosity, a healthy work environment, and low smoking rates. Rounding out the top five best U.S. states for future living are Minnesota, Colorado, Nebraska and North Dakota.

Hawaii, ranked #1 in 2011, is in the top ten this year. This year (2012):
  • Utah
  • Minnesota
  • Colorado 
  • Nebraska
  • North Dakota
$70 million, major expansion at Minn-Dak's sugar beet factory; Wahpeton (North Dakota side of the border)
The board of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative of Wahpeton, N.D., voted Aug. 28 to go ahead with a $70.3 million plan to build a molasses desugarization plant as an add-on to its sugar beet factory.  
The desugarization and load-out facility will be a major expansion of the plant, says David Roche, the company’s president and chief executive. It will add 20 additional jobs. The two-year construction period will begin in September.
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