Relocating to Bowling Green, KY
Free Relocation Packages for Bowling Green, KY
Bowling Green is shifting to a more knowledge-based, technology-driven economy. With one major public university and a technical college, Bowling Green serves as an education hub for the South Central Kentucky region. In addition, the city plays an integral part as the leading medical and commercial center.
General Motors Manufacturing Plant, Holley Performance Products , Houchens Industries, SCA , Camping World, and other major industries call Bowling Green home. It has also attracted new industries, such as Bowling Green Metalforming, a division of Magna International, Inc.; and Halton Company, which chose to expand their worldwide companies into Bowling Green.
Commonwealth Health Corporation, Western Kentucky University and Warren County Board of Education are the biggest employers for Bowling Green and the nearby region. Other top employers include Fruit of the Loom, General Motors Corvette Plant , International Paper, Eagle industries , Trace Die Cast, Camping World , Bowling Green Metalforming and Houchens Industries , Inc. The 3rd largest home shopping network Shopnbc has its warehouse fulfillment center situated here as well. Shopnbc recently moved a large amount of its Customer Service Call Center Operations to its location in Bowling Green too. Shopnbc is owned by Value Vision Media with is Headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN although the largest part of its Opertions are in Bowling Green making it a very important part of the local economy.
Compared with Elizabethtown and Owensboro MSAs, Bowling Green has experienced the largest post-recession employment gain. From November 2001 to April 2006, total payroll employment increased by 13 percent. Bowling Green has experienced a 5% increase in manufacturing employment, a 5% increase in professional and business services, and a 6% increase in leisure and hospitality since April 2005.
Bowling Green’s high income and job growth together with a low cost of doing business has led the city to be named to Forbes Magazine’s 2009 list of the “Best Small Places for Business”. In an evaluation of 179 cities across the nation, Forbes ranked Bowling Green 19th in which to do business, finishing ahead of Elizabethtown and Owensboro. The list ranked Bowling Green 34th nationwide for the lowest cost-of-living and 22nd for highest job growth.
In March 2009, the Bowling Green metropolitan area was recognized by Site Selection Magazine as a top economic development community in the United States for communities with populations between 50,000 and 200,000 people. The Bowling Green metro also received the same recognition by Site Selection magazine in 2008.
