Business relocation in the EU

Briefing 10-04-2013

Businesses continuously relocate for three main reasons: improved access to markets, lower costs and better skills. There are many factors that need to be looked at in comparing locations. Some of the main ones are labour (costs, availability, productivity and skills), the infrastructure (communication, transport....), the legal, polit­ical and reg­ulatory environment, the size of the domestic market and investment incentives.