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Site Selection Magazine Online – Europe’s 1998 Facilities Race







 JULY 1999

 SITE SELECTION
 EUROPE’S 1998
 FACILITIES RACE


  • COVER PAGE


  •  INTRODUCTION


  •  EUROPEAN
     CHAMPION:
THE UNITED KINGDOM


  •  THE RUNNER-UP:
      FRANCE


  •  GERMANY GRABS
      THIRD PLACE


  •  BELGIUM, NO. 4


  •  POLAND TAKES
      FIFTH PLACE


  •  IRELAND, NO. 6


  •  HUNGARY TAKES
      SEVENTH PLACE


  •  SPAIN, NO. 8


  •  THE NETHERLANDS
      RECORD BREAKING
   &nbsp  YEAR


  •  AUSTRIA ROUNDS
      OUT THE TOP 10



Three of Europe’s biggest countries came away
with the medals in 1998’s competition to attract inward investment. But several smaller players are carving out
impressive niches of there own.

b y   T I M   V E N A B L E

If your company wants to be a global player, it’s got to have an on-the-ground, bricks-and-mortar presence in Europe. It’s just that simple.


“If you’re globalizing, you’ve got to be in Europe,” claims Barry Bright, London-based director of Ernst & Young’s International Location Advisory Service. Indeed, there are 373 million good reasons to locate facilities and set up shop in Europe. That’s roughly how many consumers are represented in the 15-member European Union (EU) alone.




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