Any activity that increases a success percentage of locations has huge impacts on the firm s profits and returns. In working with the United States corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri three related tasks have been identified that are in-line with the goals of the ARC program. If proven valid, these demonstrational methodologies will help the company locate new branches more successfully and assess the viability of current offices. The corporate office agrees that the metropolitan Columbia, S.C. area represents a typical medium-sized market, a large segment of their investment base. EdwardJones currently has 15 locations in the Columbia urbanized area.
Good locations increase the success of the company.
Second, using satellite image data to count households should give the client a very accurate and current housing count for any location s potential market. The Census is collected once every 10 years, with the government and private firms attempting to model inter-censal year estimates. EdwardJones feels as if these estimates grow increasingly unreliable the smaller the level of geography. The average EJ office operates in a very small geographic area. Many areas of this nation are growing and changing very rapidly.