Description: Founded in 1924, The Osceola Chamber represents approximately 900 small, medium and large companies, organizations, and governments. From cattle operations going back generations, to entrepreneurs just getting their companies started, The Osceola Chamber includes virtually every type of business.

Description: Seminole County has long been the preferred location to start or expand business. The reasons are many, but here’s a few: Quality of Life: With some of the best schools in Florida, quaint towns and neighborhoods, and a plethora of leisure activities, Seminole County’s quality of life is incomparable. Talent: Seminole County has a diverse and highly skilled workforce. Whether your staff is technical or professional, you’ll be able to find it here. Cost of Business: It’s not a surprise that businesses from all over the country, or rather the world, are relocating to central Florida. We have what it takes to make a business successful without breaking the bank. Location: Its strategic location in the Orlando-Metro Region of Central Florida makes Seminole County easily accessible to major cities, airports, ports, institutions of higher education and consumer and business markets. Facilities: From Class A office space, to manufacturing and distribution, Seminole County’s diverse districts allow for real estate to fit any industry. Business-Friendly: A progressive local leadership and ease for permitting will make your establishment or expansion in our county an easy decision. These are but a few additional reasons why Seminole is Florida’s Natural Choice for Business.

Description: Orange County’s dynamic economy includes our strong tourism sector, industries specializing in advanced computer simulation and a thriving life science research hub. Lockheed Martin, Darden Restaurants, Siemens Energy, ADP, CVS Health’s Caremark and the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions are just a few that call Central Florida home. We have one of the top 10 research parks in the country, which serves as the epicenter of the modeling, simulation & training (MS&T) industry and fosters collaboration, cooperation and partnership between academia, industry and government. The metro Orlando/Orange County area is one of two communities in the world with a medical city, including a state of the art VA medical center. Since 1999, the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program has helped hundreds of early-stage businesses develop into financially stable companies by providing the tools, training and infrastructure to help facilitate smarter, faster startup growth. The National Entrepreneur Center also serves our business community by providing easy access to business assistance organizations for local entrepreneurs. Since its inception, the resident organizations have trained and counseled Central Florida businesses in record numbers, while creating nationally recognized business development programs.

Description: Orlando has evolved from the hub of Florida’s citrus industry in the 19th century to a mecca for tourism in the 20th century. Orlando’s regional leaders have worked diligently in recent years to diversify Orlando’s economy to create a new breed of high-tech, high-wage careers for residents in cutting edge industries such as digital media and technology, life sciences and modeling, simulation and training. Today, Orlando is a global leader in the 21st century innovation economy.

Description: The Orlando Utilities Commission is a municipally owned public utility providing water and electric service to the citizens of Orlando, Florida and portions of adjacent unincorporated areas of Orange County, as well as St. Cloud, Florida, in Osceola County.

Description: Duke Energy is a leading energy company focused on electric power and gas distribution operations, and other energy services in the Americas

Description: KUA owns, operates, and manages the municipal electric system established by the City of Kissimmee in 1901.

Description: As America’s largest electric utility, Florida Power & Light Company serves more customers and sells more power than any other utility, providing clean, affordable, reliable electricity to approximately 5.8 million accounts, or more than 12 million people. FPL operates one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S. and in 2022 won the ReliabilityOne® National Reliability Award for the seventh time in the last eight years. The company was also recognized in 2022 as one of the most trusted U.S. electric utilities by Escalent for the ninth consecutive year. FPL is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Florida-based NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE), a clean energy company widely recognized for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity. NextEra Energy is ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in Fortune’s 2023 list of “World’s Most Admired Companies” and recognized on Fortune’s 2021 list of companies that “Change the World.” NextEra Energy is also the parent company of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage.

Description: CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation’s leading transportation suppliers. The company’s rail and intermodal businesses provide rail-based transportation services including traditional rail service and the transport of intermodal containers and trailers. Overall, the CSX Transportation network encompasses about 20,000 route miles of track in 26 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Our transportation network serves some of the largest population centers in the nation. Nearly two-thirds of Americans live within CSX’s service territory.