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February 1, 1997

Eastman Kodak?s Strategic Best Practices

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

North Carolina Races Past Ohio to Win 1996 Facility-Location Gold Medal

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 Expansion Forecast: More Go-Go Global Growth

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

Go East, Big Boys: Asia, Autos and High Tech Rule 1996’s Location Leviathans

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

North Carolina Races Past Ohio to Win 1996 Facility-Location Gold Medal

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

The Corporate Agility Revolution: Get Loose or Lose

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

Site Selection February 1997 Issue

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

Machinery, Electronics Sizzle in ?96

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

1997?s Hot Industries: Pass the Chips

Ask economists, technology pundits and futurists to name a short list of industrial superstars for the coming years. Site Selection did, and it seems chips invariably float to the top of the pool. Computers, with a projected annual growth rate of 7.3 percent, dominate the highest-growth sectors for the near term. In fact, computer manufacturing […]

December 1, 1996

Asia’s Developing Economies: The World?s Hottest Markets For ’97 Business Expansion

Dreaming of areas where consumer buying power is on the rise? Where markets aren?t saturated? Where people are eager to buy your company?s products and services? Then turn your eyes to the developing economies of Asia: China, India, the Philippines and others. Those countries, plus South American stars like Brazil, Argentina and Chile are where […]

December 1, 1996

Real Estate 1997 and the Art of War: Strategic Planning Pushes Global Expansion

Strategic planning-fueled growth will be a big part of real estate?s new year, judging from a recent Site Selection survey of top corporate real estate professionals. A whopping 87 percent of SS survey respondents? firms, for example, plan to ?locate new facilities or expand existing ones during 1997.? Strategic planning?s expandability is fast supplanting downsizing?s […]

December 1, 1996

Magnetic Mercosur: Free Trade Spurs South America’s 21st Century Surge

Surging free trade is rapidly changing the business fortunes of much of South America. Four nations — Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — are aligned in the Mercosur customs union. And on Oct. 1, the Mercosur quartet added important ?associate member? Chile, Latin America?s most advanced economy. Bolivia will also likely soon join Mercosur, with […]

December 1, 1996

December 1, 1996

1997?s Occupancy Cost Outlook: Tightening Markets, Rising Rents

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 […]

December 1, 1996

The Best of Best Practices

Site Selection presents the Best Practices Award winners selected by the International Development Research Council Pssssst! Wanna fix some problems in your company?s real estate program? Once upon a time, you might have told someone from finance or operations to come up with a plan, or hired an outside consultant, and then imposed a solution […]

October 1, 1996

Site Selection October Highlights

More and more states are getting the message: Create a positive business climate — or else. Else what? Well, else be prepared to watch helplessly while neighboring states win the battle for new corporate facility investments and the jobs and economic growth that accompany them. That?s what. Site Selection?s 31st annual ?50 Legislative Climates? survey […]

October 1, 1996

Site Selection October Highlights

China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Politics has perhaps never made for bedfellows so odd and uncomfortable. But ?the three Chinas? are inextricably linked. The next year will sharply shape their business location prospects, with the outcome of inordinate interest to expansion-minded firms. In a few decades, China?s economy will likely be the world?s largest, spurring […]

October 1, 1996

Site Selection October Highlights

In November, U.S. voters will once again choose the nation?s chief executive. Their decision will have a far-reaching impact on business operations in the United States and abroad for the next four years. The following are excepts from the October Site Selection?s quadrennial Presidential Face-Off, comparing and contrasting the views of Democratic candidate (and incumbent […]

October 1, 1996

Site Selection October Highlights

Roaring back from a near-death experience, newly profitable Euro Disney is now expanding, creating Val d?Europe, a strikingly different new town. ?We?ve moved from restructuring to reconquest,? says Bourguignon. After years of being looked at like some sort of animal, it is very good to feel normal.? The Park Opens, Critics Swarm Euro Disney?s rocky […]

October 1, 1996

Glimpse HTTP Search

Glimpse HTTP Search (directory: /sshighlites) directory. The text of the file is simply inserted in place of this field. If there is no .description file, none is used.> This directory contains the following sub-directories. A search here will include all of them. If you wish to search only one of them follow the appropriate link: […]

October 1, 1996

by Peter Miscovich President, Interior Space International High-technology. Flexible work scheduling. Corporate downsizing. Teaming. Office hoteling. Reduced occupancy costs. Enhanced productivity. Work force diversification. The “learning organization.” New corporate concerns, objectives, technologies and philosophies have transformed today’s workplace. Companies planning to lease office space must recognize that buildings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s no […]

February 1, 1996

New Facilities 1995, page 8 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 Top Industry Groups for 1995 Facilities Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1996 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.

February 1, 1996

New Facilities 1995, page 9 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 U.S. Manufacturing Facilities 1988-1995 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1996 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.