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 __ to that country

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

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

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

• maturity

• intoduction

• growth

• decline