Your Global Partner for Location Strategy
For more than 50 years, Global Location Strategies has conducted location strategy, site selection, and incentive negotiations for world-class industrial and manufacturing corporations. With GLS, you will have a site selection team with an unparalleled understanding of the complexity and diversity of operational needs of capital- and resource-intensive projects. Our methodology is structured yet customizable to meet our clients’ specific business needs, strategies, priorities, and objectives.
Location Feasibility Analysis
GLS helps organizations evaluate whether to expand existing facilities, build new, or relocate entirely. Our Feasibility Assessment combines operational benchmarks, financial modeling, and risk analysis to give leadership teams confidence before committing capital.
Designed for companies in the preliminary planning stages of site selection who need to know:
Whether it is better to expand operations at an existing company location or build a new one somewhere else
The benefits, costs and risks inherent or hidden in the location selection decision
ROI on investment on expansion versus a new location
Location Feasibility Analysis provides deep insight into location decision trade-offs with detailed benchmarking of variable operating costs, relocation impacts, risk factors, and ROI modeling that compares one-time expenses against long-term savings at an existing operation versus potential new locations.
Location Benchmarking
Location Benchmarking provides a structured, data-driven comparison of candidate locations. By scoring regions against defined criteria, GLS delivers clear insights into which markets offer the strongest long-term advantages for growth and investment.
Helping companies answer:
Which regions, states, or cities best align with project-specific labor, cost, and infrastructure requirements
How locations compare across both quality factors (such as workforce availability) and operating costs
Where risks and opportunities exist across different geographies
Site Identification
Site Evaluation and Selection
Technical Site Due Diligence
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Selection
The advisors at GLS have been down this road before and will skillfully guide you to your destination.
Our experienced team walks you through the process of defining your search region, identifying optimal properties, and making an informed decision.
“GLS was there for us every step of the way in finding the perfect location for our new research and development center. We had full trust in their team to represent our company with a high level of professionalism while guiding us through the site evaluation process. GLS was incredibly thorough, responsive, innovative, and built a strong relationship with us to help execute our mission of enabling the world’s transition to clean energy.”
– Dr. Edward Blandford, Chief Technology Officer + Co-Founder
Economic Incentives
We can help you navigate the complex world of tax credits and incentives.
Our team will identify qualified incentive programs for your project, accelerating your realization of their benefits and preparing the next generation of your leadership to do the same.
Incentive Negotiations
We draw upon experience that is geographically broad and functionally deep to tailor our approach for individual projects. We can effectively negotiate financial and non-financial incentives that maximize your return on investment, reduce the location-specific risks to cost, schedule, and operating flexibility, and even support your workforce ramp-up.
Incentives Administration and Compliance
Once the project is announced, we will partner with you to set up procedures to ensure that you receive all the benefits you were promised. Our team specializes in ongoing incentive compliance support throughout the life of the agreements to ensure full benefits are realized and to be proactive in reducing claw backs should the company fall out of compliance with incentive agreements.
Workforce Analysis
The available labor market is a major factor in finding the right location. GLS’s bespoke workforce analysis can help you determine which community is right for you.
Comprehensive understanding of the current and forecasted skills your project requires
Detailed analysis if current and historical wages
In-depth evaluation of your supply chain’s capacity to support your industry
Logistics Analysis
Our options for site-specific logistics analysis evaluate factors including transportation costs and inbound and outbound transportation optionality. This analysis feeds into location benchmarking and informs site selection parameters.
Preliminary Assumptions
Preliminary Assumptions are created and utilized as placeholders for transportation costs and customer service quality. The assumptive data results are used in the location benchmarking study to find the optimal regions for each client’s facilities.
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You know your business better than anyone. And our team has unmatched experience in location and incentives strategy for capital, labor, and energy-intensive industries. Let’s talk.
Our Projects
Georgia-Pacific
Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. To grow its manufacturing operations for Dixie® and Dixie Ultra® lines of plates and bowls, Georgia-Pacific enlisted GLS to identify the location for its next facility.
Novelis Inc. is the leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider and world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling. Facing an increased need for speed-to-market, Novelis enlisted GLS to identify a location for the first fully integrated aluminum rolling mill in the United States in over 40 years. The project required a site with significant acreage, rail, and interstate accessibility, access to a highly skilled workforce, and large quantities of fully renewable energy.
Nacero Inc. is bringing sustainable aviation fuel and lower carbon aviation fuel to market using renewable natural gas and natural gas. Planning to build several production facilities across the United States, Nacero enlisted GLS with identifying suitable sites with access to abundant natural gas, as well as rail service.