When Jacque Woods, boss of Jasmine Consulting, LLC, started looking for a site to immigrate her Arkansas-based consulting organisation 3 years ago, she fast detected Sugar Land as a ideal place.
Like Jasmine Consulting, that specializes in organizational and worker development, a series of small, mid-sized, and Fortune 500 companies selecting to immigrate to a city of Sugar Land has exploded within a past decade.
That business enlargement will be highlighted by a Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce when it hosts a 2013 Sugar Land State of a City breakfast with Mayor James A. Thompson and City Manager Allen Bogard from 7:30–9:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 18, during Sugar Land Marriott Town Square, 16090 City Walk.
Keri Schmidt, cover boss and CEO, pronounced this year’s module will concentration on Sugar Land’s 2012 accomplishments and prophesy for a future, including vital new business relocations and expansions, as good as reasons since a city has grown as a end of choice for business, party and a arts.
“We chose Sugar Land due to a flourishing different population,” pronounced Woods, who located Jasmine Consulting in a 17000 retard of W. Grand Parkway.
“We control extensive and privately focused tellurian apparatus audits, and yield consulting and training associated to inner and outmost recruiting, worker retention, compensation, worker benefits, opening management, worker relations, training and growth and care development, so plcae was really important. We couldn’t have selected a improved place, since business and a need for worker and altogether association training is really growing.”
Sugar Land orator Doug Adolph pronounced a city is respected to have companies, such as Jasmine Consulting, as good as a flourishing series of Fortune 500 firms select it as home.
Fortune 500 firms relocating or expanding to Sugar Land include:
Costco Wholesale Corp. operates 592 clubs in 9 countries with 92,000 employees. According to Adolph, it was identified by a consult conducted in 2009 as Sugar Land’s many preferred retailer.
Fluor Corp. is a largest U.S.-based, publicly traded engineering, procurement, construction and upkeep services firm. One of Sugar Land’s longtime employers, Fluor Enterprises is in a routine of purchasing additional land in a city and building a devise to sojourn in Telfair’s blurb development.
OptumRx is a multiplication of United Health Group, a association that provides pharmacy advantages management. Adolph pronounced that a association will sinecure 330 claims processors, pharmacists and several training and government positions during a new 53,000-square-foot Granite Towers II location, that non-stop final fall.
Schlumberger is a world’s heading retailer of technology, integrated plan government and information solutions to business operative in a oil and gas industries. Its product centers during a Sugar Land campus support margin operations by building and production products to find and furnish hydrocarbons some-more effectively. The association combined a new multiplication for investigate and growth to support oilfield operations in a new bureau building. This plan is expected to supplement 25 jobs.
Texas Instruments Inc. serves wiring companies worldwide with analog and digital semiconductor pattern and manufacturing. TI has approximately 35,000 employees worldwide. The association will build a 155,000-square-foot business and growth trickery during a northeast dilemma of U.S. 59 and University Boulevard in Telfair in early 2014, ensuing in some-more than $35 million in new collateral investment and some-more than 375 jobs.
At a breakfast, Schmidt pronounced a city will also prominence a success of Constellation Field and a Sugar Land Skeeters’ initial year and refurbish a due indoor unison venue project.