The profit-maximizing Weber problem

This paper considers the location of a profit-maximizing, single-plant firm in a continuous space with a finite number of local markets. Five different spatial price policies are considered: (i) spatial discriminatory pricing, (ii) uniform delivered pricing, (iii) uniform mill pricing, (iv) zone pricing, and (v) mixed pricing where clients have the chocie between pick-up or delivery. Global optimization methods are proposed for solving the corresponding problems and numerical experiments are reported on.