By Jeff Kelley
The results are in for the first quarter. According to Conway Data’s New & Expanded Announcements these are the top 10 state for January 2002 – April 2002. The total number of announcements for the first quarter was 313.
| Rank | State | Number of Announcements |
| 1 | CA | 24 |
| 2 | MN | 24 |
| 3 | IL | 22 |
| 4 | ME | 19 |
| 5 | FL | 18 |
| 6 | NY | 17 |
| 7 | VA | 15 |
| 8 | IN | 14 |
| 9 | TX | 13 |
| 10 | NJ | 12 |