Our location advisory services
We know how locations and businesses work and what they want.
We provide advisory services to help:
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Locations develop Make them attractive and competitive, promote themselves, attract investment (and employment, people and visitors) and deliver benefits to the economy.
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Businesses expand Find appropriate locations for their investment (and functions, activities and staff), which best meet their strategic, market and operational requirements while mitigating risk.
We focus on providing locations and businesses with advisory services in the following areas:
Location policy We assist with:
- Government policy on, and objectives and targets for, location economic development and investment and the clarity and logic of these against the location’s needs.
- Investor business development requirements, investment priorities and their activity and investment allocation across different locations.
Location strategy We help:
- Locations with developing realistic approaches to improving their attractiveness and competitiveness and promoting themselves to investors.
- Investors to assess the attractiveness and competitiveness of location alternatives as viable options to support activity and investment.
Location organisation We facilitate and advise on:
- Governance, organisation and management arrangements to improving their attractiveness and competitiveness and promoting themselves to investors.
- Entry considerations and approaches to enter and establish activity and investment in locations.
Location practices We support:
- Locations to design, implement and deliver appropriate investment promotion and facilitation practices, using good practice tools and methods to understand, target and influence investor location decisions.
- Investors to discuss and negotiate with government bodies to understand compliance requirements associated with proposed investment projects and to negotiate for support packages that might be available.
Location performance We assist:
- Locations with the measurement, monitoring and benchmarking of, and reporting on, the overall location offer, investment promotion programmes and promotion delivery organisations.
- Investors assess the on-going attractiveness and competitiveness of locations, the impact on the performance on and returns on investment projects.
Location research We help:
- Locations identify, design and advocate for improvements in the overall location offer and in the promotion programme and its delivery.
- Investors determine and consider opportunities, implications and risks associated with proposed investment projects in alterative locations.