Location Decisions

Which of the following is NOT a reason why businesses relocate their operations?

• To reduce production costs

• To achieve growth

• To avoid Legal barriers

• To locate production closer to the market

Answer explanation

Avoidance of Legal barriers is a beneficial factor not a reason

What utilities should a location with quality infrastructure have access to

( choose 3 from 4)?

• power

• telecommunication

• food

• water

Answer explanation

No way anyone got that wrong

What kinds of complications would governments protect citizens from when businesses locate in a country (2 from 4)?

• pollution

• violence

• politics

• damaged land

How would a company's current staff most likely be affected if it relocates from one region of the country to another or from one country to another (2 from 3)?

• trouble with relationships because of increase in distance

• redundancy of existing employees

• wouldn't be affected

• excited for the new experience in a new country

why wouldn't legal restrictions allow a manufacturing business to relocate close to a residential area (2 from 4 )?

• different smell depending on what is being manufactured

• noise pollution

• unsightly

• air pollution

what is the formal name of the benefits a government uses to attract overseas businesses?

• government incentives

• tariffs

• workforce bonus

a business can avoid barriers of free trade (of a country) by (a)   to that country

One of the advantages for a business to relocate to a foreign country is that the cost of (a)   is lower there

the size of available site does not only have to be big enough for present needs but also (a)   needs

What is tha name of the stage of a products life cycle in which revenue has peaked

• maturity

• intoduction

• growth

• decline