Press Room
2008 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey
December 15, 2008 - Laist: "LA, SaMo Two of the Most Expensive Cities for Businesses" - Lindsay William-Ross, Staff Writer
December 12, 2008 - Finanz Nachrichten (Germany): "Rose Institute Survey Released"
December 11, 2008 - Market Watch: "Press Release"
December 11, 2008 - Yahoo Finance: "14th Annual Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey Published by the Rose Institute of State & Local Government at Claremont McKenna College"
December 11, 2008 - The Earth Times: "Cost of Doing Business Survey Press Release"
December 11, 2008 International Business Times: "Cost of Doing Business Survey Press Release"
May 6, 2008 - LA Times: "Political Foreclosure" - Joel Kotkin
February 11, 2008 - Santa Monica Daily Press: "The Cost to be the Boss" - Kevin Herrera, Editor in Chief
2004 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey
February 26, 2004- The Daily News of Los Angeles (Valley Edition), "L.A. TAXING PLACE TO DO BUSINESS; FLIGHT TO SUBURBS SURVEYED"- Kevin Smith, Staff Writer
February 24, 2004- The Daily News of Los Angeles (Santa Clarita Edition), "SURVEY: CITY'S ALLY OF COMMERCE; SANTA CLARITA LEADING IN BUSINESS-FRIENDLINESS"-Nicholas Grudin, Staff Writer
February 24, 2004- The Daily News of Los Angeles (Valley Edition), "BRIEFCASE; L.A. 11TH COSTLIEST AMONG U.S. CITIES"- Staff And Wire Services
February 23, 2004- City News Service, "BUSINESS SURVEY"
February 23, 2004- Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA), "Attracting business: How Inland cities rate; SURVEY: Some locales give companies a break on utility taxes and fees. Some don't."- JACK KATZANEK; THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
2003 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey
February 15, 2003- The Daily News of Los Angeles (Valley Edition), "IT'S (EXPENSIVE) BUSINESS AS USUAL IN L.A."- Harrison Sheppard, Staff Writer
February 15, 2003- Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA), "Costs survey puts San Bernardino first : LEVIES: Researchers say the city's businesses shoulder Inland's heaviest municipal tax burden."- ADAM EVENTOV; THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
February 14, 2003- Long Beach Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA), "L.A. businesses face higher costs than L.B., others; Survey: City rated as nation's 11th-most expensive, with its neighbors far cheaper."- Harrison Sheppard, Staff writer
February 24, 2003- THE BUSINESS PRESS/CALIFORNIA, "Study finds S.B. costs most"- The Business Press/California / The Press Enterprise
March 28, 2003- San Gabriel Valley Tribune (San Gabriel Valley, CA), "Businesses find West Covina user friendly; City rated eighth-least expensive in state"- Andrew Blazier, Staff Writer
January 5, 2003- "Kosmont Companies Selects the Prestigious Rose Institute of State and Local Government as its Publishing Partner for The Cost of Doing Business Survey®"- David Crawley, Kosmont Companies
Members of the Press can receive a Cost of Doing Business Media Kit:
Contact:
David Huntoon
David.Huntoon@claremontmckenna.edu
The Rose Institute of State and Local Government
Claremont McKenna College
340 E. Ninth Street
Claremont, CA 91711-6420
(909) 621-8159
Fax (909) 607-3882



