Manufacturing Roundtable Connects Companies to the Region’s Resources
Manufacturing Roundtable Connects Companies to the Region’s Resources From new legislation affecting local business to organizations helping manufacturers with supply chain challenges, more than 20 regional manufacturers joined us in early May to learn more about connections and support for a range of challenges and opportunities. The manufacturing roundtable event mirrored the work we do […]
Fargo Software Logistics Company Triples its Operations
Fargo Software Logistics Company Triples Its Operations Fargo, N.D. (July 19, 2023) – At a time when many software and technology companies are downsizing and scaling back their office footprints across the country, one new Fargo company is defying the trend with plans to triple its current downtown office space and increase its headcount by […]
Anatomy of our Business Retention & Expansion (BRE) Program
Anatomy of our Business Retention & Expansion (BRE) Program (how we support primary-sector company success) Supporting the Success of 400+ Primary-Sector Companies Growing our regional economy starts with meaningful connections to support the 400 primary-sector companies within Cass and Clay County. This is a core strategy the GFMEDC done through our Business Retention & Expansion […]
Questions candidates ask when considering the Fargo region (and the answers, straight from local recruiters)
Many of us love living in the Fargo Moorhead region, but we can probably admit that recruiting folks to the area might not be the easiest job. While the questions are fairly typical and easy to answer, it’s sometimes a challenge convincing the candidates to give the metro a try. Good news is that we’ve […]
Live in Fargo Moorhead Tours drive better results for recruiting
A candidate’s perceptions of our region can make recruiting a challenge. The EDC partners with companies to provide community tours. We drive prospective employees around town and talk about what our community truly offers, dispelling myths and assuring candidates that we have all the expected amenities. The program supports upper-level candidate recruitment (mid to senior […]
Opportunity Zones 101 Hosted by the GFMEDC
The Greater Fargo Moorhead EDC, ND Department of Commerce, and Cities of Fargo and Moorhead welcome you to an Opportunity Zone Forum to learn more about the impacts of this program to the business community. Fargo-Moorhead has six federally designated Opportunity Zones (OZ) (maps below). We recognize a need to spread awareness and educate members […]
Join us at the FM Welcome Party
Join us for our FM Welcome Party!! New or newish (seven days or seven years) to the Fargo Moorhead area? We’d love to see you at our next FM Welcome Party on May 7th. We’ll have food, entertainment and plenty of information about living in Fargo Moorhead. Join us and tell your friends! Tuesday, […]
7 lessons learned from organizing 7 Fargo Startup Weekends
As John Machacek, the EDC’s Chief Innovation Officer, recovers from a full weekend of ideas, business planning and making sure there was plenty of coffee, we at the EDC are reflecting on how quickly the years have passed from the first Startup Weekend Fargo and what we’ve learned about organizing a good event. And by […]
Manufacturing Day 2014: Educating, changing perceptions
About 170 students from Fargo and Moorhead had the chance to see behind the scenes of some of the area’s manufacturing businesses. From learning about how a world-class private airport works, to seeing recycled milk jugs being turned into agricultural piping, to a tour of a state-of-the-art electronics component facility, the students got some hands-on experience […]
Moving to Fargo, Episode 1
Blaine and Amanda Booher moved to Fargo Moorhead in September 2013. Find out what these Ohio natives think about the FM Metro. Take a look: