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ShortListNews complements our reference websites, market research
work, and independent professional referral services
with new custom search tools for
business site selection decisions such as investment projects in new
locations. Background
below. |
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Executives:
We help
find what you are seeking as you research and select new business
locations for expansion projects. This is a free research and
independent referral service, somewhat like a global concierge in this niche
for top executives who are facing corporate site selection decisions.
About Us. |
Download
Cityscape USA conference brochure
(18 pages - 3.3 MB .pdf)
Background
information
September 9-11, 2008 New York City, NY
Ask us about
Cityscape USA |
| The global
commercial real estate search
tool makes it easy to find local contacts, market reports, and other
information worldwide. Other innovative market research tools remain
under development. |
See our latest analysis of
Business Roundtable CEO Survey
results, and our analysis of US investment
project trends in recent years. |
Try
our new Search: Americas feature -
for the USA, Canada, and Mexico. The state search tools make it easy
to find content on over 2000 local economic development and chamber of
commerce websites. A similar
Search: Europe feature covers
40 countries. |
Our
analysis of 2006 - 2007 visits to our
state economic development directories is an indicator of the interests of
our visitors. In short, which were the "hot states"
or regions among our
600,000 visitors last year? |
| We also help
economic developers and the professional service providers in their cities and states
to reach top executives
who are responsible for the expansion plans of their companies. |
Ask us about targeted online
advertising on this website, or
about
advertising in fDi
magazine or their new
fDi Atlas
(published by FT Business - Financial Times group). |
| Date, Source, Topic,
summary, and link for details |
Featured Links |
Featured
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| Central China
earthquake disaster and Myanmar cyclone: May 2008
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Those who want to help may find our selective directory of
humanitarian, charitable, and philanthropic community services to be
useful for reference. |
| USA News: April 10,
2008 - The Business Roundtable released their quarterly CEO Survey
results. Refer to our
2002-2008 analysis, including their latest PR. |
| Global: Sept 17
2007 - fDi magazine sponsored a presentation on
global investment trends.
IBM-PLI press
release about their research. |
| Media: July 2007
- Fortune magazine has released their new Global 500 list. We
share our point of view on the
changing global distribution of it. |
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Events: May 24-26, 2007 -
Cityscape China event -
for which fDi magazine published a special supplement in April.
Copies on request. |
| Global: May 15,
2007 - fDi Atlas was launched online by fDi magazine.
Background
info. |
| USA News: May 10,
2007 - The White House has announced a new
Open Economies Policy Statement which includes the
Invest in America initiative at the US Department of Commerce.
(see background details, PR,
and sources). |
| May 7, 2007 - During
BIO 2007, fDi magazine
presented awards to the
North American
Cities of the Future on the basis of 9 months of research as
featured in the April issue and a
full page ad in the Financial Times on May 4.
There were 108 cities nominated for this very competitive benchmarking
of cities of all sizes as future business locations. Similar
research is performed by this FT magazine in other regions worldwide. |
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Regional News: April 23, 2007 - fDi magazine will
announce the selections for the 2007
North American
Cities of the Future awards. |
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Recent Events: May 6-9, 2007 -
www.bio.org Many of the top economic
development agencies worldwide were at BIO 2007 in Boston to promote
their regions as potential
biotech /
life sciences clusters. The April issue of fDi magazine will
be distributed at BIO 2007, as in previous years. |
| May 8, 2007 - A
private event during BIO 2007 in Boston shared
consultant research
about global investment trends in the life sciences / biotech sector. |
| April 29, 2007 - we attended the CoreNet Global
Summit in Denver, as in Orlando last November |
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Background information - Cityscape USA
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 We
provide independent
referrals for capital investment project planning. |
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Our analysis of Business Roundtable
CEO Survey 2002-2008 Results |
Analysis of
US Regional
Directory Visits on our reference website |
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Explanation - fDi Atlas |
North American
Cities of the Future
list of award
winners - April 2007 |
Search back issues of fDi |
fDi magazine -
Foreign Direct Investment - is published by
the Financial
Times group |
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Growth from 200,000 to 600,000+ visits per year in just 3 years
Chart of monthly website visitors, 2004 - 2007 |
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Contact:
Bruce Donnelly TEL 847-304-4655 Chicago.
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Bruce Donnelly handles US marketing and
advertising sales for
fDi |
| fDi, as a Financial Times
specialty magazine in this niche market, is the most trusted source on
foreign direct investment.
Search back issues
of fDi. |
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Who reads fDi? C-level executives at large companies
worldwide. 40% US. |
| Examples of
fDi advertisers. This is a sample - not a complete list. |
| New for May 2007 - the
fDi Atlas
as advertised in the Financial Times |
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tools at www.OnTheShortList.com
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World
Business Chicago |
| Our directory of
local, national, and
international business forums makes it easier to find organizations
through which global business leaders collaborate on issues related to
world affairs, foreign relations, global trade and competitiveness, as
well as economic development issues and corporate or personal
philanthropy. |
| What are 2008
US presidential election candidates saying on topics related to business
growth? Try our new research tool
for their campaign websites and the offices they already hold. |
| Visit our
selective directory of
humanitarian, charitable, and philanthropic community services, as
well as our
"green" directory with resources related to sustainable economic
development. |
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What is ShortListNews.com?
This is a new way to consolidate and openly share useful information in this
niche market through online collaboration among many professionals. |
Global
Direct Investment Solutions is a global reference guide and independent
referral service - like a concierge service for executives in this niche -
to support business location strategies and site selection decisions by
sharing over 25,000 resources and contacts worldwide. |
This ties
together three networks of contacts to share knowledge which can help
executives to plan capital investment projects in new locations.
 | Professional service providers specialized in this
niche |
| Economic development professionals |
| Executives responsible for business location decisions |
More details will be shared as the 2007 launch plan
moves forward. |
OnTheShortList provides business location research reports and search
tools with more selective and detailed content, including links to
search fDi magazine
and other unique features such as
Area Search,
USA Search,
Europe Search,
CRE Search,
Event Search and
Media Search.
Contact us to discuss how our
work can support corporate project plans as well as economic development and
professional services marketing by helping to introduce relevant contacts to
each other more efficiently. |
| Try our unique custom
Search tool above. You can add it to your own iGoogle home page with
the "Add to Google" button. There are also other custom search tools
on this website for US regions and states which you can save for future
reference the same way. |
Contact us to become a PR, news, or
professional contributor (free).
Please refer to the Add News guidance in this regard. We will feature
qualified professional contributors of content through our Links page. |
| Our new
Search: Americas service makes it easy
to search through multiple states in a region as well as multiple counties,
cities and other local economic development websites within any US state. This
unique research tool for business site selection decisions will soon be available in all US
states, Canada, and Mexico. |
We selectively
share relevant news, press releases, professional insights, global contacts,
and business location research tools. Refer to the
links above to Add News (free) or
Advertise at low cost on the most relevant
pages. |
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