Executive Director Chris King presents the Boyd Company report to the Quinte Economic Development Commission, September 20, 2016. (Photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)
An American company that does site-selection for businesses says Eastern Ontario and the Quinte region are “historically ahead of the curve” with labour training and the low cost of doing business.
A report to the Quinte Economic Development Commission by The Boyd Company of Princeton, New Jersey, indicates this region has advanced manufacturing companies, and machinist skilled labour that companies thinking of expanding are looking for.
The report was presented at Tuesday’s meeting of the Commission.
Speaking from Princeton by telephone, Boyd Company principal Jack Boyd told Quinte News that the Quinte region has great advantages for American companies including a low dollar and health care costs at half that in the U.S.
Boyd commented on the number of U.S. companies already located here such as Kellogg and Proctor and Gamble.
