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Originally Posted by GGG
The East Coast vs Weat Coast option is interesting. To me it's not a clear advantage to have your second head office a 3hr time zone difference from your first. Amazon is big enough that people come to it so from a supplier standpoint it can be wherever. Amazon needs logistics facilities in every city of a million or more in order to do one day service so an eastern office might make sense.
The biggest reason for a Canadian city would be immigration risk and possibly branding to the rest of the world. And in the Canadian city competition I think Calgary would win unless you could convince them that Kitchener/Waterloo is an option.
The big test in any Calgary bid isn't competing against US cities. It's convincing Amazon that its in their long term interest not to have all their eggs in the US basket.
That said Denver, Dallas, or North Carolina would be my picks to win.
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To me the whole point of a second 'headquarters' in a different city is that it is a 3hr time difference, if you didn't want that why would you bother setting up in a different city? the most common sense thing for the around 25th richest company in the world would be to have one office in Seattle, if you are planning a second headquarters not in Seattle it's because the west doesn't work for what they want that location to do.
People need to think of this beyond N America, 4 hours is not a big deal within the US but its 8 hours to Europe, an East Coast office allows workable teleconferencing to the EU throughout most of the day.