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BUSINESS FOCUS : Manufacturing
<br /> Throughout the country,manufacturers are leaving central cities for
<br /> cheaper land and labor in less-crowded areas.Minneapolis is part of the
<br /> ilktrend,seeing a net loss of 166 manufacturers over the past three years.
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<br /> By Susan E.Peterson oast
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<br /> Manufacturing opera-
<br /> tions are declining in Min- The trend in Minnesota is for manufacturing to move out of the two
<br /> neapolis and St. Paul while core cities,as witnessed by the change in the number of plants and
<br /> growing in the suburbs and employees at the top 25 Minnesota industrial cities.
<br /> elsewhere in Minnesota,said No.of plants No.of employees
<br /> the Manufacturers' News per, - p
<br /> Inc.,which publishes annual 1998 1997 dig. 1998 1997 chg. . ..
<br /> state directories of manufac- Minneapolis 1,770 1,882 -6.0% 82,739 84,561 -22%
<br /> tuners. St Paul 832 832 - 38,460 38,522 -0.2
<br /> Overall,there were nearly
<br /> 2,000 more manufacturing Eden Prairie 190 191 -0.5 12,459 12,181 +23
<br /> jobs but 21 fewer plants in Rochester 105 110 -45 10,612 10,274 +3.3
<br /> Minnesota last year,the 1998 Bloomington 176 172 +2.3 9,406 9,675 -2.8
<br /> edition of the Minnesota gan 86 80 +7.5 9,389 9,420 -0.3
<br /> Manufacturers Register said.1111 StECloud 127 -7.1 9,306 9,258 +0 5
<br /> The state is home to 11,215
<br /> plants employing 489,905 Plymouth 167 175 -4.6 8,287 8,349 -0.7
<br /> people. Winona 118 117 +09 8,230 8,255 -0.3
<br /> There is an ongoing trend Owatonna 79 76 +3.9 7,522 7,915 -5.0
<br /> of manufacturers' leaving Minnetonka 121 125 -3.2 7,327 7,532 -2.7
<br /> the Twin Cities and setting
<br /> up shop in the suburbs or Hutchinson 53 51 +3.9 6,261 6,312 -0.8
<br /> outstate Minnesota, the Burnsville 161 155 +3.9 6,004 6,122 -1.9
<br /> directory said.Minneapolis Chaska 66 70 -5.7 5,764 5,665 +1.8
<br /> had a net loss of 166 mann- Mankato 124 122 +1.6 5,534 5,474 +1.1
<br /> facturers the past three
<br /> years, while St. Paul lost 17 Anoka 85 77 +10.4 5,470 5,357 +2.1
<br /> plants in that time. The 23 Maple Grove 97 104 -6.7 5,272 4,945 +6.6
<br /> Minnesota cities with the Chanhassen 46 40 +15.0 4,554 4,561 -0.2
<br /> next most plants had a net Duluth 187 187 - 4,478 4,558 -1.8
<br /> increase of 470 plants the
<br /> Willmar 58 59 -1.7 4,075 4,417 -7.7
<br /> past three years.
<br /> Ten years ago,more than North Mankato 30 29 3.4 3,892 4,093 -4.9
<br /> 31 percent of the state's Bayport 5 5 - 3,734 3,789 -1.5
<br /> plants were in Minneapolis Golden Valley 65 64 +1.6 3,711 3,584 +35
<br /> and St. Paul, the directory 'Hopkins 85 88 -3.4 3,633 3,537 +2.7
<br /> company said. The Twin •
<br /> Cities now account for 23 Austin 37 39 -5.1 3,552 3,497 +1.6
<br /> percent of the plants. State total 11,215 11,236 -0.2 489,905 487,981 +0.4
<br /> "It's a trend we've seen in Source:Manufacturers'News Inc.
<br /> most large American cities,"
<br /> said Thomas Dubin, presi-
<br /> dent of Manufacturers'
<br /> News,based in Evanston,Ill. Of Minnesota's top 10 in- In the 1998 Minnesota di-
<br /> While retailers are willing to dustrial cities, two showed in- rectory, industrial machinery
<br /> pay higher prices for a cen- creases in the number of plants and equipment firms are the
<br /> ter-city location, man- the past year,while six showed largest group, accounting for
<br /> ufacturers "are merely in- declines and two stayed the 17.5 percent of the total.Print-
<br /> terested in where they can same. Minneapolis gained 28 ing and publishing ranked sec-
<br /> produce their product most plants and lost 140, for a net ond, metal fabricating third,
<br /> efficiently and economical- one-year decrease of 112 food fourth and lumber and
<br /> ly,"he said. plants. St. Paul gained 32 and wood products fifth.
<br /> lost 32 for no change.
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