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Article: Australia's regional HQ Plan.
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- Business Asia
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Australlia hasn't always been the lucky country when it comes to attracting new Asia-Pacific headquarters of multinational companies. But that trend is steadily being reversed. NADIA CAMERON looks at Australia's efforts at becoming a regional powerhouse.
IF YOU asked multinational companies where they would prefer to set up regional headquarters for the Asia-Pacific 10 years ago, you were unlikely to hear Australia as their main choice.
For years, Australia's attractiveness as a regional headquarters for global players in the technological and financial sectors was dwarfed by the new economy-savvy and more central locations like Singapore or Hong Kong.
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