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highlight PR, news, and professional insights gathered across the Americas
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean).
The focus is on business regions or clusters, professional
specialties, and industry sectors related to this niche market. We
support business location decisions for capital investment projects (new
offices, factories for industrial manufacturing, distribution warehouses or
logistics centers, R&D facilities, service operations, etc.). |
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welcome suggestions from potential contributors
of content. Try our
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The focus is on content which is expected to be of lasting interest to
corporate executives facing business location decisions.
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the linked pages for specific regions may also highlight regional
professional services, events, and media related to this niche. Topics
may also include significant developments in areas such as urban planning,
social infrastructure improvements, and other changes to the business
environment for capital investment plans. |
The
Directories on
www.gdi-solutions.com already
provide links to many of the economic development agencies worldwide in this
niche market. Try the
custom site Search as
well as tools at
www.OnTheShortList.com |
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summary, and link for details |
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Suggestions of other relevant resources |
| USA PR: TN - July
15, 2008 - Volkswagen has announced a US automobile production
plant in Chattanooga TN.
Press release |
| USA PR: May 29,
2008 Cityscape USA event
in New York City announced.
Event background. |
| Canada PR: May 6,
2008 Statistics Canada has released interesting
2007 statistics about foreign direct investment flows into and out
of Canada. |
| April 10, 2008 -
The Business Roundtable has released the results of their quarterly CEO
Survey of roughly 100 of their 160 member firms. This reflects
the CEO expectations for sales, capital investment, and employment
levels at their firms over the next six months, as well as US GDP
planning assumptions. Our graphs show
the CEO Survey trends since 2002. |
| May 15, 2007 -
fDi Atlas launched by fDi magazine.
Background
info. This is a new tool for regions around the world to
highlight their business locations to the audience which this Financial
Times magazine reaches in print and online. It has been promoted
through the FT newspaper recently. |
| 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 which
was announced on March 7 (see
background details, PR, and sources). |
| May 8, 2007 -
ISM (Institute for Supply Management) issued their
spring 2007 Semiannual Economic Forecast. It projected strong
2007 growth in capital investment in manufacturing and non-manufacturing
sectors at a rate of 5.8% and 5.6% respectively.
Slide presentation. |
| May 7, 2007 -
fDi magazine presented awards during the BIO 2007 convention in Boston
to the winners of the North American Cities of the Future awards.
List of winners.
The winners were featured in the April 2007 issue of fDi which was
distributed at BIO after being announced on April 23. |
| March 7, 2007 -
The US Department of Commerce issued a
press release about the new Invest in America initiative, which will
include new efforts by 2300 International Trade Administration (ITA)
officials worldwide to support the foreign direct investment attraction
efforts by state and local economic development organizations.
Previously, the ITA officials focused mainly on US export promotion and
trade policies, rather than competition for foreign investment into the
United States. (see
background details, PR, and sources). |
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