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by Douglas G. Karpiloff, CPP When a deadly car bomb exploded beneath the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Douglas Karpiloff was General Manager of Tenant Services. His experiences during the disaster recovery offer valuable lessons for facility managers everywhere. The commercial real estate world changed forever on Feb. 26, 1993, with the […]

Logistics management is giving companies new ways to improve customer service, control costs and make the most of opportunities in emerging markets. As a result, the global expansion equation is being revised as companies employ world-class logistics based on advanced information technologies. Once upon a time, location was the word that companies invoked to ensure […]

Like the products they produce, plastics firms are a multifarious lot. Little wonder, then, that the industry’s site selection patterns are no less diverse. U.S. manufacturers serving the Midwest-dominated automotive market cite different site selection priorities than do producers of foam or fiberglass insulation or PVC pipe for the construction industry. Plastics manufacturers whose customers […]

China’s Site Selection Challenges: How One Company Hopped the Wall, pg. 679 When Disaster Strikes . . . How to Manage a Successful Comeback , pg. 684 Global Logistics Boosts Competitive Advantage , pg. 695 Whither Plastics? Plant Location Criteria as Diverse as Products , pg. 784 Links to Information Referenced in August Site Selection […]

Today may well be the king of today?s worldwide Car Wars. But its surge to becoming a true global powerhouse began more cautiously in the 1980s. The globalization was a nervy — and nervous– drive down a road paved with billion-dollar bumps. Despite its potent global clout, Toyota at the time had almost no experience […]

by Audrey Pennington Many expanding companies are finding themselves stranded in labor pool?s shallow end, unable to hire enough workers with the right stuff. What?s the single thorniest issue facing corporate site locators currently? Hands down, agree consultants and corporate pros, the single biggest obstacle is finding an adequate supply of workers with the right […]

?Any color is fine as long as it?s black.? That was Henry Ford?s take on how consumer demands affected model T manufacturing: They didn?t. A relic of the long-gone days of total market control, Ford?s one-size-fits-all standard is now a prescription for disaster — and so are the real estate strategies that supported it. Consider […]

If there?s one thing a company needs, it?s people. People to work, run and operate the business — and people who?ll buy its products and services. That simple fact is one of the big reasons facilities are flocking to the U.S. South. Strong population growth across much of the region translates into an abundant work […]

Toyota?s Turbocharged U.S. Drive: Life in the Car Wars? Fast Lane, pgs. 492-499 Help Wanted: Work Force With the Right Stuff, pgs. 500-503 Manufacturing?s New Deal Demands ?Lean Portfolios?, pgs. 504-507 Need Skilled Workers? Tap the Global Training Gold Mine, pgs. 508-510 Best Practices Award: Bank of America, Real Estate Workplace, pgs. 511-512 The U.S. […]

The stories are rampant. The Boeing Co. plans to double production, pushing an aircraft a day out of a Boeing hangar. The market for business jets is exploding. Product liability reform has re-opened the door for small aircraft production. But while the aerospace industry is enjoying an unprecedented rebirth, it comes after a decade of […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]