< PreviousCompany Metro Area Country Inv. US $Million JobsOjsc Perm Engine Co. Perm Russia 665 GE Aviation Czech S.R.O. Prague Czech Republic 400 500Deutsche Lufthansa AG Sroda Slaska Poland 268 600Elbit Systems Ltd. Tbilisi Georgia 85 300Pratt & Whitney Izmir Turkey 75 Selected Corporate Facilities Investments, 2015-2017Top Cities 1 Budapest Metro Area, Hungary 1 Perm, Russia 1 Nyirbator, Hungary 1 Sedziszow Malopolski, PolandEASTERN EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIAAEROSPACE8 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E SAerospace consultancy ICF projects that MRO spend in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States will growfrom about $6BN in 2017 to about $10BN by 2027. Source: Aviation Maintenance magazine, July 2018CompanyMetro AreaCountryInv. US $MillionJobsRolls Royce Sunderland United Kingdom 161 Bombardier Belfast United Kingdom 142 20Airbus Group Aix-Marseille-Provence France 136 Boeing Co. Lossiemouth United Kingdom 131 100Embraer Portugal - Estruturas Metálicas, S.A. Evora Portugal 70 60Selected Corporate Facilities Investments, 2015-2017Top Cities1 Sheeld, UK2 Munich, Germany3 Paris Metro Area, France 4 Sunderland, UK 5 Hamburg, GermanyAEROSPACEWESTERN EUROPE2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E S 9“With €160 billion of revenues, over 550,000 direct employees and more than 1.5 million indirect jobs, the European aeronautics industry is a key contributor to European economic performance and competitiveness.” — Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe and IndustriAll, May 2018, in joint statement calling for continued EU support of aeronautics R&DTop Cities1 Bangalore Metro Area, India1 Singapore, Singapore 3 Mumbai Metro Area, IndiaCompanyMetro AreaCountryInv. US $MillionJobsThrust Aircraft Private Ltd. Mumbai India 5,261 Rolls-Royce Singapore Singapore 700 800Airbus Helicopters SE Asia Private Ltd. Qingdao Shi China 333 Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. Chūkyō Japan 288 Helicopter Engine Mro Pvt Ltd. Valpoy India 255 Selected Corporate Facilities Investments, 2015-2017AEROSPACEASIA PACIFIC10 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E SSouth Asia will eclipse all world regions in commercial aviation growth over the next 20 years, growing airline trac by 7.8% and its fleet by 7.4%.Source: Boeing Commercial Outlook 2018-2037 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E S 11DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TXUSAPHOTO: GETTY IMAGESSECTOR LEADER IN:he Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, region has seen signifi cant employment gains in a variety of sectors, underscoring the metro’s broad economic base. e attractive business climate has helped place the region in the top tier of the World’s Most Competitive Cities. is year, it ranked in the Top 5 across 10 of the 12 sectors analyzed. Varied companies have headquarters in the region — ExxonMobil, an energy conglomerate, is based in Irving and Southwest Airlines Co. is based in Dallas. JP Morgan Chase, a fi nancial services fi rm, invested in a new campus in Plano in 2017. Insurance providers, including State Farm and Liberty Mutual Insurance, have increased their footprint in the region in recent years. Overall, insurance carriers added more jobs in the region over the past year and past fi ve years than in any other U.S. city. anks to a diverse high-tech sector that continues to grow, the region added close to 50,000 jobs in the high-skill professional, scientifi c, and technical service industries between 2012 and 2017. Texas Instruments, based in Dallas, has benefi ted from increased demand for its chips from the automotive sector as automated systems continue to encompass more of the driving experience.Alongside steady economic gains, the region’s population grew by more than any other U.S. metro area in 2017, providing an expanding workforce and adding to the consumer spending base. Net migration into the region is a major contributor, with close to 90,000 more people moving into the area than leaving in 2017. Housing costs have risen as opportunities in the region have attracted more residents, damaging aff ordability and potentially eroding some of the region’s cost advantage over West Coast technology hubs for businesses and residents. At the same time, with fewer regulatory and geographic constraints on new construction than in regions like the San Francisco Bay Area, demand for housing is also creating opportunities in the real estate and construction-related sectors. ese sectors have also benefi ted from major stadium construction projects, including the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Field in Arlington. is analysis draws on the report Best-Performing Cities 2017, Milken Institute (2018).Minoli RatnatungaMilken Institute32.7767° N 96.7970° Welev. 430 ft.CSTUTC-61st3rd3rd2nd4th3rd2nd4th4th2ndNORTHAMERICAAEROSPACECompany Metro Area Country Inv. US $Million JobsLockheed Martin Corporation Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX United States 1,200 1,000Spirit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc. Wichita, KS United States 1,071 1,000Rolls-Royce North America Inc. Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN United States 600 Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. Columbus, GA-AL United States 386 500Syberjet Cedar City, UT United States 380 1,200Selected Corporate Facilities Investments, 2015-2017Top Cities 1 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, USA 2 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, USA 3 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, USA 3 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, USA 5 San Diego-Carlsbad, CA, USAThe aerospace sector tallied 90,100 jobs in Southern California in 2016, representing 14% of total U.S. aerospace employment. The total jumps to over 100,000 with public-sector jobs at JPL, NASA, etc.12 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E S2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E S 13CompanyMetro AreaCountryInv. US $MillionJobsSpectrum Aeronautical, LLC Mexicali Mexico 300 250Icon Aircraft, Inc. Tijuana Mexico 150 1,000Safran México, S.A. De C.V. Queretaro Mexico 100 GE Aviation Systems LLC Petropolis Brazil 55 Esterline Technologies Corp. Tijuana Mexico 35 Selected Corporate Facilities Investments, 2015-2017Top Cities 1 Mexicali, Mexico 2 Tijuana, Mexico 2 Queretaro Metro Area, MexicoLATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEANAEROSPACE14 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E SLed by Baja California, Mexico’s aerospace industry saw 14% annual growth from 2004 to 2017 and was expected to surpass 340 industrial sites & 60,000 employees in 2018.Source: Mexican Federation of the Aerospace Industry (FEMIA)CompanyMetro AreaCountryInv. US $MillionJobsStrata Manufacturing Al Ain United Arab Emirates 500 70Aerolia Casablanca Metro Area Morocco 54 500Daher Aerospace X Tangiers Metro Area Morocco 16 250Latelec Casablanca Metro Area Morocco 11 300Latecoere Had Soualem Morocco 10 Selected Corporate Facilities Investments, 2015-2017Top Cities1 Casablanca Metro Area, Morocco2 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2 Isfiya, IsraelAEROSPACEAFRICA & MIDDLE EAST2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E S 15Safran has operated in Morocco for more than 15 years. Out of more than 2,500 employees at seven companies and JVs, 70% are women. 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E S 16A UTOMOTIVEutonomous vehicles and e-mobility are speeding toward us, as areas reconsider how to move people around with mini-mal emissions and wasted time, whether by bus, rail or hyperloop. But if you think regions are taking their hands off the wheel of one of the world’s most lucrative industries, think again.“Demand for vehicle ownership is shifting to emerging markets,” says the World Economic Fo-rum. China only had 124 vehicles per 1,000 people in 2015 (vs. 793 per 1,000 people in the U.S. in 2014), but registrations or sales of new vehicles rose by more than 27 percent in China between 2013 and 2016. Oxford Economics’ Dan Levine points out another country on the rise:“India has quietly become one of the world’s largest automotive production centers, now produc-ing 3.8 million cars per year, roughly on par with South Korea,” he says. “In fact, Hyundai is not only expanding in India, but shifting some of its South Korean production to India,” where it can export to certain global markets. So, while Chinese cities dominate our Asia Pacifi c automotive leaders, Pune and Delhi are right there in the mix, alongside the Eastern Seaboard region of ailand.“In a broader context, high vehicle densities in developed markets, coupled with rising middle in-comes throughout the developing world, are likely to continue the pattern of major car production shift-ing to the emerging economies,” Levine says. Note the rise of African cities such as Lagos and Tangiers in the pages that follow. Mexican cities take nearly all the top spots in our Latin America & Caribbean rankings. e massive industry investments in those cities are driven by NAFTA, but they’re increasingly connected to other LatAm and global markets, in addition to growing domestic sales.“Global trade policy is a growing concern for the automotive industry,” says Levine, noting U.S. tar-iff s. "Automotive supply chains are global, and per-haps nowhere better illustrated than North America, where uncertainty over NAFTA’s future is causing companies to more carefully consider political risks from unexpected sources before making investment decisions. In the UK, Brexit poses a similar risk. For example, almost half of all automotive components in UK cars are sourced from the EU.”But developed economies still harbor most automotive R&D. at applies to the German cities in our Western European rankings, as well as No. 1 Birmingham (West Midlands). ree diff erent Czech cities are among our Eastern Europe leaders, refl ecting the Republic’s 1.35 million passenger vehi-cles produced annually (128 per 1,000 persons). e future for these regions and everywhere else is akin to Germany’s energiewende, or energy transi-tion — call it an autowende. It's all about CASE: “connected,” “autonomous,” “shared,” and “electric.”“I think that cars will become part of our social network by connecting us to our communities through data and information,” said Toyota Presi-dent Akio Toyoda in October 2018, “and helping to provide services that support our everyday lives.”His new JV with SoftBank is called MONET, a mashup of “mobility network.” e metros repre-sented in these rankings supply the brushstrokes that will help form a complete picture of what Toyoda called “the mobility society of the future.”16 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E SEASTERN EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIAAUTOMOTIVECompany Metro Area Country Inv. US $Million JobsJaguar Land Rover Ltd. Nitra Slovakia 2,000 Magna Steyr AG & Co. KG Hoče - Slivnica Slovenia 1,350 Volkswagen Wrzesnia Poland 1,120 2,300Daimler AG Kecskemet Hungary 1,000 2,500Fiat Auto Poloni Katowice Metro Area Poland 768 420Selected Corporate Facilities Investments, 2015-2017Top Cities1 Prague Metro Area, Czech Republic2 Kecskemet, Hungary2 Skopje, Macedonia4 Katowice Metro Area, Poland5 Ostrava, Czech Republic5 Gyor, Hungary5 Louny, Czech RepublicAs of 2017, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, home to 29 automotive assembly and engine plants,all were in the top 10 in EU automotive industry employment, led by No. 3 Poland with 187,334 employees. SOURCE: EUROPEAN AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION 2018 W O R L D ’ S M O S T C O M P E T I T I V E C I T I E S 17Next >