With most of its engineering team headquartered in Europe and word-of-mouth marketing, Hinrikus believes there isn't a pressing demand to have local teams in every part of the world despite this move into Asia Pacific.
That response raises serious questions about oversight of the Swiss operation by the then senior executives of its parent company, HSBC Group, headquartered in London.
Earlier this year Boulle's America Mineral Fields moved its headquarters to Dallas, Texas, but for most of its life the company was headquartered in, of all places, Hope, Arkansas, best known as Bill Clinton's hometown.
The RentJuice team will continue to work out of its San Francisco offices (Zillow is headquartered in Seattle, WA and also has an office in Irvine, CA).
For most of its operational history, IX Corps was headquartered in or around Japan and subordinate to US Army commands in the Far East.
Welcomed with "great joy" by London's Conservative mayor, Boris Johnson, MIPIM has for all of its 25-year existence been headquartered in Cannes, where every year, a couple of months before the French Riviera city rolls out the red carpet for the glitterati of the film world, it stages an exclusive forum for the major players of the international real estate scene.
Where is the company headquartered, and how much of its business is conducted abroad?
Even the flushest, the Bush campaign, is headquartered in the home of its state chairman.
The region's largest manufacturing employer, Boeing, is headquartered in Seattle; one of its largest banks, Sanwa Bank California, takes its orders from Japan.
One of his holdings, Vulcan, headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has 35% of its operations in the ten fastest-growing states: chiefly, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
