(Answered) : Which location provides Polaris the greatest advantage? What factors should be considered in making this decision? What conditio

Which location provides Polaris the greatest advantage? What factors should be considered in making this decision? What conditions would need to change for you to select another location? Explain your rationale

In September 2010 Suresh Krishna, vice president of operations and integration at Polaris Industries Inc., a manufacturer of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), Side-by-Sides,1 and snowmobiles, sat in his office in Medina, Minnesota, deliberating the recommendation he was developing for a new plant to manufacture the company’s Side-by-Side vehicles. (See Exhibit 1 for pictures of Polaris vehicles.)

EXHIBIT 1 Polaris vehicles.

The economic slowdown in the United States had put considerable pressure on Polaris’s profits,