Businesses in Mexico

Mexico is the place to start businesses, with costs approximately 20,5% below the United States, according to the study Competitive Alternatives 2008 (Alternative Competitive 2008) of company/signature KPMG. The study, that compares the costs of making businesses in 136 cities in 10 countries of North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, revealed that cities in Mexico like Puebla, Guadalajara and Monterrey offer the lowest costs to make businesses, followed by San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The factors of selection of places compared in the report include macroeconomic indicators, labor markets, commercial and environmental innovation, regulations, quality of the infrastructure, provision of energy and quality of life. This year, the study measured 27 significant components of the costs that have more probabilities of varying according to the location, among them infrastructure, manual labor, transportation, tax, real estate and service public, according to are applied to 17 commercial operations, in a perspective of planning to 10 years.

Thus, Mexico occupies the first place between the studied countries, with the costs of the businesses 20,5% minors who in the United States, classification that reflects the condition of the industrialized first country like the emergent one which it appears in the study. Mexico appears for the first time in this spread study today.