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Melissa Hughes: “The process for working with a company [on incentives] is…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Newsmakers: Melissa Hughes - CEO, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

Published | Video Starts at 25:48

Molson Coors, thank you very much. They're bringing their headquarters to Milwaukee with I think a few hundred high paying jobs. Is that contingent on weedic tax incentives? So we talked about how The process for working with a company [on incentives] is all confidential. and there's two reasons for that. One is to protect the competitive edge of the company and one is to protect the competitive edge of Wisconsin. (25:48–25:53)

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