Company Location: The Best Location

Mercal’s work focuses on searching for and identifying business opportunities for companies, prioritizing markets where our presence is strong.

Choosing the ideal location for a business is vital for the success of any activity. Several factors contribute to the location decision, including:

• Availability of a qualified workforce;
• Access to markets, customers, and suppliers.

These factors are critical to the success or failure of business start-ups.

Mercal Consulting Group provides a range of services to help companies expand through appropriate geographic positioning, producing, assisting, distributing, and supporting R&D operations both domestically and abroad. We cover all phases of the relocation process, from strategic planning and project feasibility to the location decision and site selection.

By identifying different options considered suitable for the location, we select the best solutions through comparative studies. Since each project and client has different requirements and specificities, our service offering can be applied flexibly to one, several, or all stages of the location decision and site selection process.

Company Location Support Services

For each location option, we prepare:

• Social and demographic studies;
• Comparative analyses of economic feasibility and human resources, including qualifications and costs;
• Identification of local educational infrastructure, including vocational training facilities;
• Analysis of telecommunications and other public services (water, gas, electricity);
• Identification and evaluation of suitable properties and available sites;
• Identification of local, regional, and national incentives;
• Assessment of local attitudes toward the business and the expected level of support and actions from local authorities;
• Identification and audit of the local transport network and its implications for the client;
• Identification of suppliers;
• Comparison of pricing and tax policies;
• Analysis and assessment of public safety levels;
• Identification of suitable housing, schools, and other social facilities for expatriate staff;
• Comparisons of cost of living and quality of life;
• Design and implementation of management solutions to recommend necessary changes.