Description: The Business City Guide in Association with Times Online. Your guide to the world's busines locaitons.
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In association with Times Online, the Business City Guide is aimed at the increasing number of commercial organisations and individuals alike worldwide looking beyond their natural borders into new markets and the opportunities they offer. Once the exclusive domain of giant multinational corporations, many organisations now recognise that high-tech infrastructure, highly competitive travel, transport and logistics solutions and the accessible, flexible resources of the knowledge based economy bring internat
Over recent years, governments the world over have invested considerable time and effort to attract Foreign Direct Investment at all levels. Unified import-export regulations and taxation treaties together with a range of localised incentives and more open, accessible local government all contribute to an environment conducive to international growth.
It is now becoming increasingly common for companies of all sizes to establish regional sales and support headquarters in overseas markets as an alternative to managing complex and often expensive franchise and sales agency contracts. Overseas locations often offer more competitive solutions for customer service and distribution centres. Thanks to efficient, reliable competitive telecommunications and specialised human resource solutions, such facilities can now exist anywhere in the world and still maintai