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The exterior of the highly anticipated 600,000-square-foot Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc. (MBUSI) battery plant in Bibb County has been completed. That sets the stage for equipment installation needed to build electric batteries for a new lineup of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. Two new warehouses are also now in full operation at the Bibb County site. MBUSI […]

The city of Cullman has received a $350,000 grant that will help a manufacturer add 125 new jobs. Cullman will use the Community Development Block Grant to provide road improvements and improve traffic safety to a main thoroughfare to REHAU Inc., which produces plastic-injection products that are used in the manufacturing of Alabama-built vehicles, including

A $258,000 grant will lead to an estimated 162 immediate new jobs in Tuscaloosa County, Gov. Kay Ivey’s office has announced. Ivey announced that Tuscaloosa County, which is providing a $64,500 match to receive the funds, will use the Community Development Block Grant to provide infrastructure improvements and upgrades needed by Schnellecke Logistics Alabama to

The Alabama Legislature has approved plans to renew and expand economic incentives for businesses in Alabama. House Bill 192 (HB 192) was delivered to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Thursday after unanimously passing the Senate Wednesday and the House last week. Sponsored by Rep. Bill Poole of Tuscaloosa and Sen. Greg Reed of Jasper, the bill renews

The $100 million project will create more than 200 jobs in Loxley. The 564,000-square-foot facility, scheduled to open next year, will be ALDI’s sixth distribution center in the South and can serve up to 100 stores in Alabama, southern Georgia, Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle, and Louisiana. https://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/2021/02/11/aldi-breaks-ground-alabama-project.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=me&utm_content=bb&ana=&j=22913689

The German government has warned of suspected attempts to disrupt the coronavirus vaccination campaign by foreign intelligence groups as well as conspiracy theorists, according to a media report. “Several suspected attempts to spy on German vaccine manufacturers have already become known,” newspapers of the Funke media group quoted the Interior Ministry as saying. The statement was

Article by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in WELT (in German) and CNN. This year, Germany celebrates a special anniversary: Ancient documents have found that people of Jewish faith have been living in today’s Germany since the year 321. This anniversary reminds us how deep our Jewish roots run, and of the great extent to which they shape who we

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to ignore, as far as possible, celebrations of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, which fell last month. The uncontested titan of classical music receives sufficient attention in an ordinary year, and there is no lazier way of programming a musical season than letting it be dictated

My Supply Chain Group LLC, a Birmingham-based IT company that provides supply chain planning processes and application implementation services for clients, has been acquired by the German-based itelligence | NTT DATA Business Solutions.  The financial details were not disclosed to the BBJ.  With this acquisition, itelligence | NTT DATA Business is expanding its presence in

The capital has become the latest area in Germany to introduce a restriction on movement if the seven day incidence (the number of Covid-19 infections per 100,000 residents in seven days) climbs above 200. The state government decided on Tuesday that from a seven-day incidence of 200, a radius of 15 km will be drawn