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  Factors Affecting Location Decisions of Food Processing Plants
 
 
Title: Factors Affecting Location Decisions of Food Processing Plants
Author: Sule Turhan
Basak Canan Ozbag
Bahattin Cetin
Appeared in: Journal of applied sciences
Paging: Volume 7 (2007) nr. 13 pages 1734-1740
Year: 2007
Contents: The main aim of this study is to examine the determinants of location choices for food processing plants using the results of 59 personal surveys. The 61.3% of the food processing plants that were interviewed are small scale plants, 9.1% are large scale plants and 29.6% are medium scale plants. Sixteen of the firms process vegetables, 12 process poultry, 12 process dairy and 9 process seafood products. Business climate factors are divided into six categories (market, infrastructure, raw material, labor, personal and environmental) and 17 specific location factors are considered. The survey responses are analyzed by types of raw materials processed and by plant size. 43.7, 55.3 and 42.2% of the respondents cited categories of Market, Raw Material and Infrastructure respectively as important, while 44.3, 50.7 and 74.4% of the respondents cited, labor, personal and environmental regulation categories of as not important. Thus survey findings indicate that plant location choices are mainly driven by market, raw material and infra structural factors. Environmental factors such as environmental regulations and permissions are relatively insignificant.
Publisher: Asian Network for Scientific Information, Pakistan (provided by DOAJ)
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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