Chicago set to gain 400 Dow Chemical jobs

The Windy City soon will be home to about 400 Dow Chemical Co. jobs. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced plans for the creation of a Dow sales center in downtown Chicago, moving about 400 jobs to the city from the Greater Chicago Area. "Dow's new office will be a gathering place, an easily accessible, central location in which business can be conducted and ideas will be exchanged," Emanuel said in a release. "It will be great for the City of Chicago and great for the company as well." The creation of a sales center for Midland-based Dow Chemical is part of a strategic move to support the company's growth agenda of becoming a more customer-oriented organization, Dow Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Heinz Heller said in a release.

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