Virginia Advantage

Only a few locations can guarantee the right combination of resources that are crucial to your business's success. Virginia is one of those locations. The Commonwealth of Virginia offers a unique combination of assets that have encouraged businesses to prosper here for more than 400 years. Like you, they searched the world over for that convergence of resources that would help ensure their prosperity. For them, their search ended here. Chances are yours will too.

Please follow the links below to learn why Virginia placed first among the 50 states in two independent studies conducted by Forbes.com and CNBC evaluating America's top states for business.

• A strong and diverse economy
• A pro-business climate
• A highly competitive cost-of-doing business
• An ample, highly-skilled, well-educated and motivated labor force
• Access to federally funded research and development centers
• Abundant utilities for less
• An excellent intermodal transportation system
• A streamlined regulatory environment
• Stable and competitive taxes
• Performance-based business incentives
• An excellent quality of life
• A wide range of industry clusters
• More than 700 foreign-affiliated firms
• An abundance of resource to start a small business