NWKF is in New York City this week promoting the Commonwealth and Northwest Kentucky to prospective companies and consultants. This is one of the series of calls we make as a part of KentuckyUnited, our statewide marketing cooperative of which NWKF is a lead partner.
Traditionally, we have kicked these events off with an evening bourbon tasting; however, this time we did it as a lunch at the famous 21 Club. Our featured guest was master distiller and Jim Beam descendant, Fred Noe IV. Freddy is a great storyteller and wonderful ambassador for one of Kentucky’s signature industries.
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The center provides customer and technical support by telephone for corporate customers, including telecom, cable TV and broadband Internet companies, with an emphasis on customers’ inbound technical support and customer service calls — for communications, financial services, technology/consumer, transportation and leisure, healthcare and other companies.
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NWKF is on the road again, this time in San Diego at the TMS Show. This is part of our exciting new partnership with Rio Tinto Alcan. RTA operates an aluminum smelter in NW KY, one of three smelters within an hour radius. This region now produces approximately 30% of America’s aluminum.
RTA’s Sebree smelter is currently undergoing a $37 million upgrade that will allow them to start selling hot metal later this year. If your company needs hot metal or could significantly reduce your costs by buying hot aluminum instead of heating it yourself, then you need to talk with us.
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The Northwest Kentucky SET team will be meeting again on Friday, 25 February, to work on regional goals and objectives. SET (Stronger Economies Together) is a national pilot project for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Administration. Northwest Kentucky is one of about a dozen pilot region across the region.
Northwest Kentucky is on its annual marketing trip to the Pacific Northwest this week. For the last several years, NWKF has spent at least one week in the Portland/Seattle areas telling the Northwest Kentucky story. Columbia Sportswear and Homecare Products, both companies based in the Pacific Northwest with relatively new facilities in NW KY, are great examples of companies who have found a winning formula in the two Northwests.
For companies who are based on the West Coast and started in this region, they often find they need a location in the Eastern US to serve customers. Northwest Kentucky’s outstanding logistics advantage and location where the Midwest meets the Southeast combined with our hands-on assistance makes a facility in our region a great opportunity for success.
Today was a busy day in Northwest Kentucky! This morning the NWKF HR Council breakfast featuring a 3–hour training session was SRO with HR pros from throughout the region taking part in one of NWKF free training programs, this one sponsored by KMAC and the University of Phoenix.
This afternoon, NWKF assisted Kentucky Utilities with their Morganfield Career Fair at Henderson Community College’s Herron Tech Center. Even with the inclement weather, their first two sessions were full with more on the way!
Tomorrow morning Governor Beshear will be in Northwest Kentucky to join officials at Rio Tinto Alcan for an exciting announcement while Kentucky Utilities will be hosting their Henderson Career Fair at HCC’s Henderson Fine Arts Center.
NWKF is pleased to welcome the new Kentucky Utilities customer service facility to Morganfield.
This facility will represent the company’s 4th call center and will result in more than 50 jobs.
We will post more on this exciting news after the official announcement and ground breaking on 28 January in the Morganfield Industrial Park.
According to the recently released American Community Survey, Union County has a median family income income higher than the state’s. Additionally, with a median age of 34.6 the county is nearly 2 full years younger than the national median!
Henderson County’s median household income is nearly 5.5% higher than the state’s according to the recently released American Community Survey from the Census Bureau. Read more about how Henderson County ranks in today’s Gleaner.
Thanks to The Gleaner for the recent story on the region’s positive job growth and congratulations to Webster County with the state’s 2nd lowest unemployment rate!
