Location, Location, Location
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Location, Location, Location

A Plant Location and Site Selection Guide

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Location, Location, Location

A Plant Location and Site Selection Guide

About this book

Choosing the right location for a business can assure its success, and avoid costly problems. Location, Location, Location examines this foundational aspect of business profitability, and outlines the principles and procedures necessary to identify an optimal site. This practical book offers advice on how to invest wisely on real estate to minimize risks, and maximize returns.

This concise guide by Marcel De Meirleir, a leading site consultant with over fifty years of professional practice, explains how to measure the positive and negative attributes of a site. Its useful and accessible format includes anecdotes, cases studies, and tools for evaluating and selecting sites for different kinds of facilities like headquarters, warehouses, call centers, among others. Other topics in Location, Location, Location include:

  • Analysis of critical and intangible factors
  • Taxes and tax incentives
  • Industrial location and ecology
  • Location feasibility studies
  • The BERI rating
  • Infrastructure
  • Costs analysis, and much more!

Location, Location, Location is an authoritative and valuable resource for business owners, decision makers, and consultants who wish to find, expand, or relocate their facilities. This comprehensive volume also provides strategies for regional government officials seeking to attract investments in their area.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780789019660
eBook ISBN
9781136409035
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. General Principles of Industrial Location
  9. Chapter 2. The Project Definition: Basic Requirements
  10. Chapter 3. Critical Factors Analysis
  11. Chapter 4. The Economic Analysis—Part I: Analysis of the Nonrecurring Cost Factors
  12. Chapter 5. The Economic Analysis—Part II: Analysis of the Recurring Cost Factors
  13. Chapter 6. Analysis of Intangible Factors
  14. Chapter 7. Other Elements
  15. Chapter 8. Community and Site Analysis
  16. Chapter 9. Decision Making
  17. Chapter 10. Locating Warehouses, Research and Development Centers, Headquarters, and Call Centers
  18. Chapter 11. Attracting Investments
  19. Chapter 12. Industrial and Development Studies
  20. Chapter 13. Industrial Location As a Science and Its Role in the Future
  21. Chapter 14. The Consultant’s Role in Site Selection
  22. The Language of Location
  23. List of Stories
  24. List of Location Tools
  25. Index