Grow Minnesota! events help businesses prepare for the economic recovery. Sharing their perspectives on how the recession has changed the job market were (from left) Simon Foster of SpencerStuart, Minneapolis; Sue Metcalf of Ecolab, St. Paul; and Jan Erickson of Medtronic, Inc., Fridley. Dee Schutte, executive director of the Litchfield Chamber of Commerce, visits with House Minority Leader Kurt Zellers at the Session Priorities event. Governor Tim Pawlenty congratulates John M. Rivisto, president and CEO of Wells Concrete Company, on its new facility in Sartell. The plant has created 50 jobs in central Minnesota and will add another 100 jobs over the next five years. Minnesota legislative leaders share their priorities at the Minnesota Chamber’s annual Session Priorities event: (from left) House Minority Leader Kurt Zellers, House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, moderator Tom Hauser of KSTP-TV Eyewitness News; Senate Minority Leader David Senjem; Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller. Governor Tim Pawlenty addresses nearly 1,600 business leaders and policy-makers at the Minnesota Chamber’s annual Session Priorities event, the largest legislative gathering of its kind. Michele Engdahl with Thomson Reuters, Eagan, receives an up-close look at a hog-producing facility – Baarsch Farms-Next Generation Pork, Inc. near Austin – as part of Leadership Minnesota. The Minnesota Chamber program is an exclusive look at the state’s changing economy and the issues that will shape its future.

Grow Minnesota!

Background of Grow Minnesota!

Why the Minnesota Chamber?

The Minnesota Chamber has a proven track record of leading Minnesota's private sector on key public policy issues. Over the last decade, the organization has been told by its members to make the state's business environment more competitive by reducing workers' compensation expenses, reforming the property tax system, reducing the personal income tax, improving our transportation infrastructure, making health care coverage more flexible and restructuring business regulations (especially environmental). The Chamber has made progress in each of these areas. Clearly more work remains on these and other issues; however, Minnesota now has a much better "story" to tell.

The Minnesota Chamber has also established a powerful statewide network of its member companies and local chambers of commerce. It has experience guiding and leveraging this network. As such, it is well poised to lead a statewide business retention and expansion effort.

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