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Article: Northern Indiana update: the region's top business stories.(REGIONAL REPORT NORTH)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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LIKE THE REST OF INDIANA and the nation, northern Indiana has had its economic challenges, but Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph counties have good news to report, especially in life sciences and medical products manufacturing.
Life sciences strong. Warsaw is cementing its claim as the "Orthopedic Manufacturing Capital of the World" with expansions at four companies that already employ a combined 4,000 and are about to add another 260 new jobs, reports Joy McCarthy-Sessing, president of Kosciusko Development Inc.
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The county's top employer, Warsaw-headquartered Zimmer Inc., with 3,000 now on the payroll locally, ...