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
      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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