Economic Incentives a Major Boon for Reshoring and Foreign Direct Investment

July 07, 2021

Economy

Can Incentives Take a Site from Good to Great?

Over 160,000 new manufacturing jobs were added to the U.S. in 2020, compared 110,000 in 2019. And for the first time since 2013, reshoring activities created more manufacturing jobs in the U.S. than foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI fell sharply in 2020, no doubt due to travel restrictions imposed from the pandemic.

The two most important factors cited in the latest reshoring report for companies investing in manufacturing in the U.S. via reshoring or FDI are:

Proximity to customers and market
Economic incentives

The importance of customer proximity has been validated throughout the pandemic, but how valuable are incentives to a company’s bottom line?

Read the entire article here to understand how incentives are taking sites from Good to Great…

Monty Turner ›

Monty, as Senior Vice President at Colliers International, leads the site selection and incentive negotiation services. With expertise in guiding clients through investment decisions, Monty considers factors such as labor, infrastructure, logistics, taxes, and business climate to support corporate location strategies for expansions or relocations worldwide. Since joining Colliers in 2019, Monty has played a vital role in facilitating successful investment projects.

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