LOCATION ADVISORY SERVICES

LOCATION ADVISORY
SERVICES

YOUR CUSTOMIZED LOCATION STRATEGY
AND 7-POINT ACTION PLAN

CUSTOMIZED LOCATION STRATEGY


GEI Site Selection Services develops a customized location strategy to evaluate the crucial location factors for your particular business.

7-POINT ACTION PLAN


The resulting action plan aligns with your unique goals and delivers optimal location decisions.

STRATEGIC PLAN
FRAMEWORK

GEI’s Site Selection Team will develop a customized location strategy that evaluates location factors crucial to your business. This results in an action plan that aligns with your objectives and optimizes location decisions.


KEY PLAN ELEMENTS:


LOCATIONAL:

✔︎ Identify location choice drivers

✔︎ Prioritize drivers

✔︎ Define how they align with business objectives


OPERATIONAL:

Define operational drivers including cost reduction, efficiency, market expansion, growth, process improvement, and workforce availability.


FINANCIAL:

Ensure financial alignment with strategic objectives: local, regional, and global.

COMPETITIVE LOCATION
ASSESSMENT

GEI’s Competitive Location Assessment is a proven methodology to address our client's needs and criteria. It supports the location decision process and documents the strengths and weaknesses of targeted locations. The CLA provides a fact-based evaluation that: 

  • Demonstrates a location's competitive advantages
  • Determines labor recruiting and human resource development challenges 
  • Assesses a location in terms of physical and human capital resources, unique location characteristics, transportation infrastructure; market access to customers, suppliers, raw materials, and business climate. 


KEY PLAN ELEMENTS:


COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT:

✔︎ Demographic Make Up

✔︎ Psychographic Make Up

✔︎ Market Size

✔︎ Growth Potential 

✔︎ Market Area Served

✔︎ Access to Customers, Key Suppliers, Raw Materials 


WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT:

✔︎ Existing Workforce Profile

✔︎ Determine Suitability and Supply of Workforce

✔︎ Forecast Indicators for Certain Occupations

✔︎ Validate Workforce Potential for Long-term Success

✔︎ Assess Labor Cost Dynamics of the Market

LABOR MARKET
STUDY

GEI’s innovative approach to labor market analytics delivers practical resolutions to crucial human capital challenges.


OUR SERVICES:

✔︎ Labor market analytics

✔︎ Labor supply/demand forecasting

✔︎ Labor diversity

✔︎ Business climate assessment

✔︎ Submarket selection

✔︎ Catastrophic risk assessment

✔︎ Relevant Skillsets

✔︎ Community Assessments

✔︎ Crime & Drug Assessments 

STATE & LOCAL
INCENTIVES ANALYSIS

We offer an array of services designed to maximize the state and local incentives you receive. We negotiate and secure economic incentives from local, state, and federal government organizations.


KEY BENEFITS:

✔︎ Increase negotiation leverage

✔︎ Reduce tax exposure

✔︎ Minimize capital outlay

✔︎ Decrease real estate costs

✔︎ Minimize infrastructure investment

✔︎ Reduce employee training costs


ECONOMIC INCENTIVES SECURED:

✔︎ Tax credits/abatements

✔︎ Opportunity zones

✔︎ Sales and use tax rebates

✔︎ Cash grants

✔︎ Real estate grants (TIFS)

✔︎ Special tax districts

✔︎ Enterprise–Foreign Trade Zones

✔︎ Training grants

✔︎ Utility rate concessions

✔︎ Expedited permitting

✔︎ Forgivable and low interest loans

✔︎ Infrastructure grants

SUPPLY CHAIN /
NETWORK ANALYSIS

GEI'S Supply Chain Team and affiliates utilize their expertise to help you meet your complex supply chain needs.


CORE SERVICES:

✔︎ Increase supply chain efficiency Levels 

✔︎ Improve supply chain agility to reduce risk

✔︎ Leverage supply chain effectiveness to reduce total landed cost 


HOW WE CAN ASSIST:

✔︎ Supply chain assessment: cost vs. service

✔︎ Service level goal alignment with market demand

✔︎ Asset deployment optimization

✔︎ Work process segmentation optimization across facilities and geography 


PROJECT TYPES:

✔︎ Supply chain design

✔︎ Network design

✔︎ Facility design

✔︎ Work process design

SITE SELECTION FINDINGS

Upon completion of the above studies and analyses, GEI’s Site Selection Team will present you with real estate recommendations that meet your goals. The report will include the following features and findings:


LOCATION ANALYSIS:

✔︎ Where are lowest cost locations?

✔︎ What locations offer the key priorities?

✔︎ How does my current portfolio compare with competitors?


LOCATION SERVICES:

✔︎ Consistent, reliable data on a national scale

✔︎ Statistically sound location comparison methodology

✔︎ National benchmarking of existing locations

✔︎ Planning and developing expansion strategies

✔︎ Formulate cost drive location plans

PROJECT
FINANCING

The GEI Project Finance Services Team and affiliate members provide financial modeling advice to help you undertake projects with the benefit of accurate projections and scenarios. We act as your project sponsor/advisor throughout the finance process.


OUR 360-DEGREE APPROACH:


PROJECT DEVELOPMENT:

✔︎ Contractual framework

✔︎ Design permitting

✔︎ Process review


FUNDING MODELS & STRUCTURING:

✔︎ Financial modeling

✔︎ Market readout

✔︎ Due diligence & credit approval


EXECUTION:

✔︎ Market making

✔︎ Documentation support

✔︎ Pricing benchmark

✔︎ Compliance reporting & monitoring

The GeoEconomic Institute is dedicated to maximizing the value of a location's potential. We establish a set of plans that aligns with the Strategic, Operational, and Financial needs of our clients.

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