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For the past five years leading manufacturing journalist TR Cutler has been a monthly contributing journalist. Cutler said, “I’m proud to be affiliated with this leading information resource. The scope, variety, and depth of coverage are superb and it allows for a vast range of content for all aspects of industrial automation.”

Automation.com is updated multiple times each day by an industry-experienced content and editorial team. Each month, the website publishes more than 300 articles, news stories and product announcements. Plus, the site adds more than 100 previews and links per month to relevant automation articles published on other industry websites.

Leading manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler Continues as Contributing Editor for Food & Beverage Journal

Establishing common ground for business management and engineering is an important feature article authored by manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in the September issue of Industrial Engineering. The magazine is the publication of IIE.

AutomationMedia.com was created in early 1998 as one of the first Automation related sites in the world. Since then both size of the site and the traffic have increased steadily and it has become popular and supper hit resource of Industrial Automation and Controls. After a major update in 2004, AutomationMedia has been turned in to a valuable tool and a favorite stop of large number of Automation and Control Professionals from all over the world. It has earned a global reputation among Industrial software vendors, providers and their customers for the breadth and insight of its contents.

Recently, Automation.com celebrated ten years of serving the industrial automation and process control industries. Since its inception in 2000, Automation.com has grown to become the leading online publisher of automation-related news, information and resources. Each month, the site attracts more than 115,000 automation professionals from around the world. "In our ten year history, we have been fortunate to experience year-to-year growth in publishing capacity, product offering, website traffic and advertising revenue," says Rick Zabel, Vice President and Publisher. "Even through the dot-com bust and latest economic downturn, the company has continued to grow."

TR Cutler, Inc., based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, was founded by Thomas R. Cutler a dozen years ago. Cutler maintains extraordinary relationships with clients, journalists, editors, trendsetters, and key business leaders worldwide and has become a key resource for those writing about the manufacturing sector. Cutler founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium in the early 1990's. This extraordinary group of more than 3500 journalists, editors, economist, and other industrial leaders worldwide writes about trends, data, case studies, profiles, in the manufacturing, industrial, and distribution sectors. Cutler works with thousands of media outlets to expand manufacturing media coverage.

While addressing the importance of America being able to compete in the global marketplace, President Obama explained that every $1 billion increase in exports would support more than 6,000 jobs. To promote American exports, the announced that the administration launched the National Export Initiative, an effort to utilize the resources of the government in support for businesses that sell goods and services abroad.

As the global economy rebounds, demand for US products is growing. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, US agricultural exports are projected to top $104.5 billion in 2010, an increase of $7.9 billion from last year. President Obama’s new National Export Initiative seeks to double the amount of US exports over the next five years.

Exporters of food and agricultural products can take advantage of the National Export Initiative. The four non-profit State Regional Trade Groups (SRTGs) will accept applications for the 2011 Branded Program, a reimbursement program designed to help small businesses offset the costs of promoting their food and agricultural products overseas.