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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 New & Expanded Facilities 1993-95 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.

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 New & Expanded Facilities 1993-95 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.

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 New & Expanded Corporate Facilities 1993-95 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.

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 New Facilities Index 1987-1996 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.

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 U.S. Facilities 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.

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 Industry Comparisons for New Manufacturing Plants 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.

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 U.S. Manufacturing Growth by SIC 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.

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.

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.

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 Global Facilities 1995 | 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.