Tax incentives and tax packages are uniformly viewed as low priorities by location consultants, relatively unimportant to the basic decision.
"Indonesia is a low-cost location so it's attracting investment that would have previously gone into China but because of wage demands that investment is going into Indonesia, " he said.
However, Microsoft is said to be interested, as are a number of other companies, attracted by Malaysia's high growth, low cost, political stability and strategic location.
When you combine heavy government subsidies and low labor costs, China is an ideal location for green energy jobs.
The result, in the case of the Finnieston crane (officially the Stobcross Crane but known better for its location) is a deep, low hum as the wind creaks through the metal struts.
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The first stage in the cycle is that of factor-driven economies which focus on low-cost basic factor conditions, such as low-skilled labour, natural resources and geographic location.
"Our biggest challenges were developing an algorithm which optimally combines the data from GPS and the other sensors, and overcoming the issues of using such low-cost sensors in a system without any absolute location reference, " said Smithson.
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Besides cleverly managing inventory and location, Feinstein and Eisenberg credit their success to low prices and spending little of their sales on advertising--1.5% versus 3% for their peers.
The proposed standard, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 141, would fulfill Congress' mandate in the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act that hybrid and electric vehicles meet minimum sound requirements so that pedestrians are able to detect the presence, direction and location of these vehicles when they are operating at low speeds.
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Vacancy rates are at a historic low, and the price of office space higher than any comparable location in the world.
You can argue that there are countless trendy restaurants serving low-quality food which still have busy periods (thanks to their location, decoration or animation), but once the trend is gone, so too is the crowd.
Stanford's Noll concurred with those who say MLB is running low on viable domestic expansion sites, though he differs with Fort on the location of the next frontier.
"Vietnam has been easy for us, " says production manager Wulf Gasthaus, who chose the location for their first overseas sequences because of the gorgeous coastline, low costs and freshness.
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