| Manufacturing Optimism Survey reported by Tampa | | | | Kansas City (75.0%) |
| Bay Business Journal and complied by TR Cutler, Inc. | | | | Atlanta (74.1%) |
| Every two years the Manufacturing Marketing firm, TR | | | | Nashville (73.6%) |
| Cutler, Inc. ( conducts a national survey about the | | | | Memphis (73.1%) |
| optimism of manufacturers throughout the U.S. The | | | | Tampa (72.2%) |
| Tampa Bay Business Journal reported the survey | | | | Charlotte (71.8%) |
| results at: | | | | Cincinnati (71.6%) |
| When last conducted, November 2003, the | | | | Chicago (71.4%) |
| manufacturing sector was coming out of a long-term | | | | Orlando (71.2%) |
| slump. Indeed the economy of the manufacturing | | | | San Antonio (70.8%) |
| sector has improved drastically in the past two years. | | | | Thomas R. Cutler, who founded the consortium in 1999, |
| Among the 2429 privately-held manufacturers | | | | has grown the participation from 300 journalists to |
| surveyed, optimism was stronger in almost all | | | | more than two thousands key clients, journalists, |
| geographic sectors, with few exceptions. The most | | | | editors, trendsetters, and key business leaders |
| optimist geographic regions are: | | | | worldwide. Cutler has authored more than 1000 articles |
| With a rating of >70% saying 2006 will be better or | | | | for a wide range of manufacturing periodicals, industrial |
| much better than 2005 | | | | publications, and business journals including most of the |
| Louisville (77.1%) | | | | leading monthly trade publications. TR Cutler, Inc., ( is |
| Dayton (76.9%) | | | | the nation's largest manufacturing marketing and public |
| Dallas (76.3%) | | | | relations firm, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. |
| Cleveland (76.1%) | | | | TR Cutler, Inc. |
| Milwaukee (75.2%) | | | | |