This article on foreign firms that have located near Dulles International Airport said that Accenture moved its headquarters to Bermuda. The company incorporated in Bermuda, a tax haven, in 2001. The company says it has no headquarters; it maintains regional corporate offices around the world, including one in New York.
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When sky-high rents drove Rolls-Royce out of Greenwich, Conn., in 1990, flight schedules and affordable office space narrowed its choices to Atlanta and Dulles.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]"The federal government has a significant impact for all of business from a legislative point of view," said Barry New, a retired senior vice president who oversaw the move. "So it swung the balance and we began looking for a facility in Northern Virginia."
Biovail Technologies, a Canadian drug development operation in Chantilly, is often scrambling to prepare for Food and Drug Administration meetings in Washington.
Both Fairfax and Loudoun have observed an increase in the number of foreign-owned firms over the years. The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority tries to build on that success by spending $500,000 annually to run recruitment offices in Bangalore, India; Frankfurt, Germany; London; Seoul; and Tel Aviv.
The Dulles Airport, with 10 domestic and 21 international airlines serving 120 destinations, is an obvious draw.
Chris Wooten, president of the public safety global business unit at Israeli security company Nice Systems, said he's thankful his Reston office is just seven minutes from the airport.
The past three weeks he's hopped from Mexico to Israel to Europe. And he also spends quite a bit of time in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
"It's tough," he said. "Sometimes I'll go to London at the beginning of the week then to Israel, then I'll come home."
Hiring Americans to handle U.S. operations has advantages when it comes to cultural nuances. When Bob Hoffman, a sales account manager for Tesseract, a British technology firm with a Reston outpost, traveled to Britain for training, he said he was surprised to see his fashionable European colleague sporting a loud pink shirt and tie under a black pinstripe suit for a sales meeting.
"If you're giving a demonstration in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that's not going to fly," he said.
