cent of the consultants’ clients’ facilities as compared to 44
percent of the corporate respondents’ facilities) as well as
to India ( 16 percent as compared to 25 percent) (Chart L).
Again, the disparities may be explained by the differences
in operations between the responding consultants’ client
base and the corporate respondents.
Although about 40 percent+ of each group’s (
consultants’ clients and corporate respondents) new foreign projects will be manufacturing facilities, a fifth of the foreign
projects that the consultants’ clients are working on are
slated to be back office or call center type of operations
be established by the respondents to our Corporate Survey
will fit this description.
When asked if they had seen an increase in the num-
ber of companies establishing foreign facilities as opposed
to domestic ones, only 29 percent of the respondents to
our 2008 Consultants Survey said, “Yes” (Chart N). Last
year, 48 percent said, “yes” in response to this question.
In fact, 35 percent of the 2008 responding consultants
said their clients had actually located a foreign facility
back to the United States (Chart O). The respondents
continue to see problems when helping clients to locate
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