ROYAL OAK – Irene Spanos, Director of Economic Development and Community Affairs for Oakland County, provides details on a report about the state’s second largest country in 2016 in which 92 companies located or expanded into Oakland County, generating more than $780 million, creating more than 4,600 new jobs.
She also pointed out more than 40 percent of those companies are Foreign Direct Investment companies from:
o Australia,
o Canada,
o China,
o Germany,
o India.
o Italy,
o Japan,
o Korea,
o Mexico,
o Netherlands
o Norway,
o Spain and
o Switzerland
Spanos also discussed Tech248, a networking group that represents some 2,000 tech companies in the county.
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