Refinery Complex Adds Heft To Malaysia's Oil & Gas Aspirations

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The Johor Bahru region in southernmost Malaysia is emerging as a key regional oil and gas hub, and the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA), which is overseeing the 2,217-sq.-km. (856-sq.-mile) Iskandar Malaysia development project, will play an important role in fostering this sector. Iskandar Malaysia comprises five component areas, or flagship zones, that in their own right will bring forth new commercial, residential, educational and industrial developments designed to transform south Johor into an economic engine for Malaysia and Southeast Asia. [Read More...]

Sectors Of Opportunity

A Site Selection Investment Profile: The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) is leading new efforts to facilitate foreign direct investment into key industry sectors in order to meet objectives set forth in the Economic Transformation Programme by 2020. The plan stresses increased investment in several sectors that will help transform Malaysia into a higher-income economy complete with the infrastructure and labor supply necessary to sustain the target sectors into the future. [Read More...]

A Capital City for Capital Investment

A Site Selection Investment Profile: Malaysia's capital of Kuala Lumpur has a key role to play in the successful implementation of the 10th Malaysia Plan, the government's blueprint for making the country an effective competitor for global capital investment in high-income industry sectors. The Plan identifies 12 National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) with the potential to produce high incomes and generate sustainable competitiveness on a global scale. Kuala Lumpur is the only city on the list of NKEAs, which consists primarily of industry sectors. [Read More...]

The Case for Changzhou

Two Atlanta-based companies are making the case that not all new investment in China is heading to the hinterlands, where many believe more advantageous labor rates can be found relative to coastal sites. An eastern China location still delivers the labor availability and logistics edge they require as the country's huge domestic market takes on a more central role in these companies' growth strategies. [Read More...]

Kurdistan: Where Pioneer Investors in Iraq Get Started

Iraqi opportunities. These two words don't seem a good match, unless perhaps in the context of the oil or security businesses. But the phrase makes sense in Iraqi Kurdistan, the autonomous northern region of Iraq, where early commercial investors are now on the scene. Across many areas of Iraq, peace is fragile and daily life can still be unpredictably dangerous. But growth is returning to Iraqi Kurdistan led from its capital, Erbil. [Read More...]

A New Business Neighborhood

Sites adjacent to airports have an inherent logistics advantage, and sites near a university offer research and future work-force potential. What if a site were situated near both? Universities near airports are becoming increasingly important around the world. Three such locations already exist in Latin America, which are accessible to the United States in just a few hours by air. Monterrey (Mexico), Guatemala and Panama each have at least two institutions of higher learning located literally across the street from their international airports. [Read More...]

The Time Machine

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A Site Selection Investment Profile: From automotive manufacturing to the chemicals and life-sciences sectors, few factors are more important to global competitiveness than speed to market. In fact, for some industrial companies, the presence of a superior transportation and logistics network is the most critical component of all. In Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, logistics is at the heart of the state's business growth strategy - and a world-class transportation network is the driver. [Read More...]

Where MNC Subsidiaries Excel

Québec-based IT executives at multinational computer services giants attribute the success and expansion of their enterprises to being located in Québec. An increasingly bilingual and skilled work force, higher education resources, proximity to Europe and the U.S. Northeast and a business climate that encourages capital investment are some of the assets they identify as drivers of their ability to compete. More specifically, they compete successfully with other subsidiaries of their parent companies worldwide for capital investment, or they complement those subsidiaries as no other operation can, they maintain. [Read More...]

From the May Issue of Site Selection Magazine: Two-Wheeling in Southeast Asia; European Auto Plants Rev Up, Color for Scandinavia, & Tunnel-to-Tunnel Bridge Debuts In China. [Read More...]

News from around the world: IBM in Costa Rica; Crown Holdings in Cambodia; Sunbelt International, GenScript USA, Corning Incorporated & Samsung in China; Brisbane Airport Corporation's Master Plan. [Read More...]