LOCATION AND EXAMPLE OF INDUSTRY
The M4 corridor stretches from Heathrow airport in the east to Bath and Bristol in the west.
It contains many of the country's quarternary industries. These include electrical, food and car parts companies. It also has industries in reserach and processing of computer and telecommunications equipment.
E.g.Dell, LG, Vodafone and Microsoft.
These industries are described as being footloose.
They have generally grown up over the last 25 years in "growth areas", along communications routes.
The new industries actually employ few people in comparison to the older, declining, heavy industries. Traditional location factors have been super-seeded by newer ones.
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