Source: dailytech.com Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook made a speech to Congress on what he called a “dramatic simplification” of corporate tax laws. The main point of this proposal is that taxes on profits for businesses are too high, forcing many companies to shift their earnings overseas, where, through tax loopholes, they can […]

North East manufacturers are bringing production onshore to avoid rising operating costs overseas. Many of the region’s leading manufacturers met to discuss industry issues at a Deloitte manufacturing dinner in Newcastle. They highlighted wage inflation, security of supply and rising costs as key forces leading manufacturers to re-shore their activities. […]

Europe is not particularly known as a major hub of the semiconductor world, but – if the European Commission gets its way – it will be. The Commission has launched a major seven-year drive to stimulate investment in the microelectronics and nanoelectronics manufacturing sector, aiming to ramp up to a fifth of global production by […]

As business confidence in the economic recovery deepens, corporate c-suites are at least thinking about when and where to expand their operations. Although the evidence is largely anecdotal so far, commercial real estate brokers and corporate site selection consultants tell CoStar they’ve noticed a general increase in the number of corporate expansions […]