Being in the right location is a key ingredient in a business’s success. If a company selects the wrong location, it may have adequate access to customers, workers, transportation, materials, and so on. Consequently, location often plays a significant role in a company’s profit and overall success. A location strategy is a plan where the firm will attempt to maximize opportunity while minimizing costs and risks.

Depending on the type of business, companies also may have to examine other aspects of prospective locations and communities. Based on these considerations, AKA INTERNATIONAL help the companies to choose a site that will best serve their needs and help them achieve their goals.

Formulating a location strategy AKA analyzes the following factors and provide services to the clients to establish their company, factory or sales locations accordingly:

1. Facilities planning involves determining what kind of space a company will need given its short-term and long-term goals.
2. Feasibility analysis is an assessment of the different operating costs and other factors associated with different locations.
3. Logistics evaluation is the appraisal of the transportation options and costs for the prospective manufacturing and warehousing facilities.
4. Labor analysis determines whether prospective locations can meet a company’s labor needs given its short-term and long-term goals.
5. Community and site. Community and site evaluation involves examining whether a company and a prospective community and site will be compatible in the long-term.
6. Trade zones. Companies may want to consider the benefits offered by free-trade zones, which are closed facilities monitored by customs services where goods can be brought without the usual customs requirements.

1. Governmental regulation. Companies also may face government barriers and heavy restrictions and regulation if they intend to expand into other countries. Therefore, companies must examine governmental—as well as cultural—obstacles in other countries when developing location strategies.
2. Environmental regulation. Companies should consider the various environmental regulations that might affect their operations in different locations. Environmental regulation also may have an impact on the relationship between a company and the community around a prospective location.
3. Incentives. Incentive negotiation is the process by which a company and a community negotiate property and any benefits the company will receive, such as tax breaks. Incentives may place a significant role in a company’s selection of a site.