Ireland has been named the Best Country to Invest in Western Europe according to the Site Selection Magazine.  Dublin and Limerick also ranked in the top ten of cities in which to invest.

50% of the national Best to Invest rankings were based on growth in new facilities, capital investment and job creation using data from Conway Data’s New Plant database and from IBM-PLI’s database of new projects for calendar years 2012 and 2013. Each country was ranked on the total number of projects, investment and jobs created both as raw value and as a per capita value.

The other 50 percent of the ranking was based on the Location Rank and Competitiveness Score resident in LocationSelector.com’s proprietary database using these factors: business costs, economic strength, infrastructure; regulatory burden; and tax rates. Additional bonus points were given to those countries that were ranked among the top 50 destination countries by jobs created as identified in IBM’s Global Locations Trends Report.

Best Western Country to invest Ranking:

1. Ireland
2. UK
3. Netherlands
4. Germany
5. Finland
6. France
7. Switzerland
8. Spain
9. Belgium
10. Portugal