Potlatch operates Minnesota’s Lumber Mill just east of Bemidji. It is one the region’s largest manufacturers and private employer.

The Bemidji area is a region on the move. The quality of education and place provides a great location to live and do business. Our progressive, all-salaried workforce is known continent-wide and throughout the industry for performance and innovation. This is a direct reflection of the quality of people in a quality place working together to compete successfully in challenging and changing times in the timber industry. Whether at work, school or at play, Bemidji is the best place my family and I have ever lived.

Bemidji is an ideal location from the viewpoint of a health care executive. We are blessed with a wide variety of businesses in our area, which creates a highly diversified economic base. Further, Bemidji is a regional hub with true excellence in K-12 and higher education, health care, tourism, advanced technology, forest products, government services and retail trade. As a result, we are able to retain highly trained health care workers without having to look outside the area. My health care colleagues across the country and elsewhere in the state are not so fortunate. The wide variety of local cultural and recreational amenities also helps us in attracting top-notch doctors to the Bemidji area. There is a great reservoir of talent in many disciplines that should excite any business seeking to locate in this around the year paradise.

Bemidji has a small town feel with big time resources. Excellent health care, access to first-rate higher education, low-cost utilities, tax-free zones, and a capable workforce are just a few of the offerings that make Bemidji ideal for companies in search of a business advantage. Outdoor recreational and cultural opportunities abound in this progressive community dedicated to steady economic expansion and balanced growth in an area rich in natural and human resources.

“Our business fits in Bemidji well because of it’s geographic location, but also because the quality of life and vibrancy of the area allows us to attract and retain the kinds of employees we need to be successful. It provides the educational resources we need to continually grow our skills. And it provides the expanding customer base we need to grow the Company.”

Towering pines, sky-blue water, clean air, a hustling regional business center, state-of-the-art health care, arts, theater, and music are all central to the quality of life in Bemidji! With a first class airport, industrial & technology parks, advanced telecommunications, research centers, colleges, universities, and capital, our community is a huge resource in serving our current enterprises and in supporting new ventures. In the realm of creativity, innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship we continue to invent our future. Bemidji leads the way and stands poised to help others find theirs!

The JEDC is the driving force in Bemidji’s emergence as the Regional Center for Northern Minnesota. The JEDC is vigorously marketing Bemidji as the preferred site location for leading companies and their business enterprises. Their experienced staff has over twenty years in working with providing assistance to companies both large and small that chose to locate in the Bemidji area. The JEDC also has access to internal and external funding sources, such as the JOBZ Program, that can help with your business financing.

The JEDC provides a pivotal function to the Bemidji region by working with new and existing businesses to maintain a strong economic base for the community.

NCBP has 13 offices throughout the Midwest yet we have kept our Home Office in Bemidji for the past 58 years! You can’t beat the quality of life this part of the country offers. The business community is very supportive, creative and progressive, with technology available locally that allows us to communicate to all of our offices like we were in the same building. Most importantly, the foundation of our company was built by our Bemidji associates and it’s where we want to stay.

We have found that the employees in the Bemidji area have an excellent work ethic and truly appreciate being able to make a living in an area many people only get to visit on vacations. I know I do! we don't have to fight traffic, hurricanes or floods. We don't spend long hours in commutes to work. The local businesses we serve as professional advisors are both a privilege and a pleasure to work with.