April 1, 1997
Let’s Make a Strategic Deal: 1996’s Top 10, pgs. 220-238 Strategic Expansion’s Consummate Collaborators: 1996’s Top 10 Development Groups, pgs. 240-255 Strategic Alliances: Shaky, but Steady Steps Up the Value-Added Staircase, pgs. 256-261 The High Tech Edge: Whether Bleeding or Leading, It’s Transforming Business Expansion Best Practices Award: CLW Realty Group, Real Estate Service Delivery, […]
February 1, 1997
Eastman Kodak?s Corporate Real Estate strategy focuses on maximizing shareholder value through continuous, financially oriented, business process improvements, which are designed to optimally align the company?s existing and future investments in real estate with business strategies. Best Practices: Eastman Kodak An army of innovative strategies relentlessly links Eastman Kodak?s corporate real estate program with its […]
February 1, 1997
In 1994, the number was 5,193. A year later, it reached 6,522. In 1996, it broke 8,000. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, you ask? No. But reflective of the U.S. stock market?s bullish expansion during the past three years, corporate facility-location activity across the United States is on an equally torrid pace. In fact, Site […]
February 1, 1997
1997 will be earmarked by go-go global corporate facility growth, perhaps on a gargantuan scale. Site Selection?s New Facilities Index clearly indicates 1997?s strong expansionist drift, projecting a substantial 10 percent increase in the number of worldwide new facilities and expansions. Based on a global survey of expansion plans at some of the world?s business […]
February 1, 1997
1996 was a year of very rapid change in global business location. To underscore how fast things are changing, consider one of the centaurs among 1996?s announced new facilities and expansions: South Korean multinational LG Electronics? US$2.5 billion, 6,100-employee semiconductor/TV monitor manufacturing facility, which will sit on a sprawling 250-acre (100-hectare) site in Cardiff, Wales. […]
February 1, 1997
In 1994, the number was 5,193. A year later, it reached 6,522. In 1996, it broke 8,000. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, you ask? No. But reflective of the U.S. stock market?s bullish expansion during the past three years, corporate facility-location activity across the United States is on an equally torrid pace. In fact, Site […]
February 1, 1997
Flexibility. What?s it worth to your firm? Try US$5 billion. That?s what General Motors? (GM) originally wanted from Volkswagen (VW), alleging that Jose Ignacio Lopez stole file cabinets full of flexible designs before joining VW. The GM-VW brouhaha marks the most manifest sign of flexibility?s very high market value. ?There is no alternative for becoming […]
February 1, 1997
North Carolina Races Past Ohio to Win 1996 Facility-Location Gold Medal VIEW TOP FACILITIES CHARTS AND GRAPHS The Corporate Agility Revolution: Get Loose or Lose 1997 Expansion Forecast: More Go-Go Global Growth Go East, Big Boys: Asia, Autos and High Tech Rule 1996?s Location Leviathans Eastman Kodak?s Strategic Best Practices Machinery, Electronics Sizzle in ?96 […]
February 1, 1997
Manufacturing execs looking to boost capacity were never busier than last year: The number of new and expanding plants reported in Conway Data?s New Plant database soared by 22 percent. ?Where to grow?? was the big question facing a reengineered, ?rightsized? industrial sector in 1996. For many industry chiefs planning billion-dollar investments, locations outside the […]
December 1, 1996
It?s enough to make your accountant cry — now it?s the landlords who?re smiling. Particularly in the USA, long gone are the days of the late ?80s and early ?90s, when many markets were awash in surplus office and other space, and landlords were practically begging corporate tenants to sign on the dotted line. In […]