State Magazine Targets New Business

The state Development Office is publishing a new magazine, West Virginia Edge. “It’s a marketing piece,“ said state Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette. “It’s designed as a magazine, but its mission is to promote West Virginia as a place to do business.

“As we were looking for a way to send our message about business in West Virginia, we decided, ‘Let’s take that money and put it towards a magazine and send it to chief executive officers across the country, distribute it at trade shows.’”

Burdette said, “We have about $35,000 in printing and mailing costs…We will publish twice a year to start