Officials said 50 percent of the overall business climate ranking is based on a survey of corporate site selectors who are asked to rank the states based on their recent experience of locating facilities in them. Ohio ranked 11th in the executive survey.
The other 50 percent is based on an index of seven criteria, including performance in Site Selection’s annual Competitiveness ranking, where Ohio ranked ninth.
In March, Site Selection magazine ranked the Dayton region second in the nation for capital investment attraction in 2014.
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