Expect to open new facilities within:
2008
21%
21% 14% 6%
38%
2007
20% 15% 10% 6%
49%
2006
0
1 Year
Figure 10
Of those planning new facilities,
number to be opened within the next five years:
25% 10% 13% 6% 46%
20 40 60 80 100
2 Years 3 Years 4 Years or more No plans
1 — 46%
2 — 26%
3 — 12%
4 — 4%
5 or more — 12%
Figure 11
Types of new domestic facilities to be opened
(as of total new domestic projects):
Manufacturing — 48%
Warehouse/Distribution — 27%
Headquarters — 5%
R&D — 9%
Back Office/Call Center — 4%
Other — 7%
Figure 12
Number of new jobs to be created
at new domestic facilities:
Figure 13
Fewer than 20 — 24%
20-49 — 33%
50-99 — 11%
100-499 — 22%
500-999 — 7%
1,000 or more — 3%
Nearly half of the new domestic facilities (48 percent) will
be manufacturing operations, and more than a quarter ( 27
percent) are planned warehouse/distribution facilities (
Figure 12). Additionally, 90 percent of the respondents reported that, all told, they would create fewer than 500 jobs at
these new domestic facilities; just 22 percent will create
between 100 and 499 jobs (Figure 13).
Fourteen percent of the new domestic facilities are
planned for the South (Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, and Mississippi), with the Midwest (Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin) and Southwest
(Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) each garnering 13 percent of the new planned domestic projects.
The South Atlantic region (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia) follows, accounting for 12
percent of these projected facilities. Interestingly, last year
only 9 percent of the planned projects reported by the Corporate Survey respondents were slated for the Southwest.
Also, plans for the Middle Atlantic region (Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) have
tapered off, with only 7 percent of the new domestic facilities slated for this region — down from 12 percent reported
by last year’s respondents (Figure 14).
Nearly half (44 percent) of the planned new foreign
facilities will be manufacturing operations, and a quarter
are slated to house warehouse/distribution centers (Figure
15). It also appears that more jobs are expected to be created at the new foreign facilities than the domestic ones —
12 percent of the respondents will be creating 500 jobs or
more in total at new foreign facilities, and 31 percent will
be creating 100–499 jobs at these facilities (Figure 16).
As for the location of new foreign facilities, 13 percent
are planned for Canada, nearly double the percentage
planned for Canada by last year’s Corporate Survey respondents. Ten percent of these new foreign facilities will be
established in Eastern Europe — with just 6 percent slated
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