What are the principles of industrial location?

Question

I need this for a geography homework. Thanks.

Answer 1

here are many principles for industrial location-
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~arosborn/cultpdfs/10_ind.pdf

Answer 2

http://encarta.msn.com/industrial+location.html

In summary, location is the principal of real estate.
You have a market - actually a target market - for sales or for industry and production.
You have a market for distribution.
You have a market of workers available.
You have a market of land and resources available.
The industrial location = must be central to all of these resources for optimum results.

Sales is the driver - because you can have the best industrial location in the world - but without sales of what you want to product - it's worthless. This is what happened to many steel mills and other factories in America when business went to other countries with lower land prices and lower wages of workers.

GOD bless us always.
MBA-Boston Univ.
CPA-retired