IAMC International Audience in London Learns About FDI Trends, EMEA Logistics and Sustainability Factors

By Adam Bruns, from Site Selection Magazine’s January Issue

An IAMC International event at the Hilton London Kensington in November featured EMEA logistics insights from Kevin Molfid, head of logistics research at Savills; a discussion of “the carbon cost of location” by Cushman Wakefield’s Sally Bruer; and an exploration of site selection and current FDI trends by Nicholette Ross, managing consultant at Global Location Strategies.

“There are several factors that we’ve seen contributing to location decisions regardless of industry,” Ross told me a few weeks after the event. “However, one of the biggest ones for our projects has been the energy landscape. In markets such as Europe and the U.S., energy is constrained from both a generation and infrastructure standpoint and many countries and communities are trying to figure out how to serve projects of all sizes. For some of our projects, electric feasibility has been on of the factors driving the search region.”

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