Global Direct Investment Solutions

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Our Google Site Search provides a familiar way to search only this website for relevant content, or to search the web as usual.  Once the site search identifies the page where a relevant word appears, the "Control f" keys can be used to quickly "find" any character string or word of interest on that page since some of the directory pages can be quite long.  The large pages keep relevant content organized for quick reference, typically avoiding the need for multiple searches and the wasted time of opening the same pages repeatedly.

There are also convenient links to regional directories of websites at the bottom of most pages.  These directories of professional service providers and economic development contacts cover most regions of the world, as in our Contacts section.

Our Research directory may also be helpful.  We maintain working relationships with many of the leading business location consultants and incentives specialists.  Some of their experience is shared openly through articles in the Consultant Tips section.

We are also developing new "On The Short List" feature reports in 2005 about business location selection issues for specific states, provinces, countries, and industries.

  •  Refer also to The Professional Site Selection Tour and Meeting Point at www.ontheshortlist.com as new services for 2006

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This website provides over 20,000 links to business development resources worldwide, in addition to our unique content for the support of business expansion plans.

    

Try these buttons for simple links to thousands of contacts and useful resources worldwide, or for US regional, state, and local contacts.  There are many large directories on this site.

     

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This business is analogous to a concierge or referral service.  We help executives to invest in new manufacturing, R&D, distribution, or office operations anywhere in North America or worldwide by organizing and openly sharing valuable market knowledge, networks of well-qualified professional contacts in this niche, and other resources.  We offer well-qualified referrals to relevant contacts - not just website contacts and links. We make it easier for executives and their advisors to develop and implement investment project plans to achieve their ROI goals faster and better with well-qualified support.

We also help leading business advisors and economic development professionals to attract the attention and connect with executives with project plans relevant to their capabilities.

We introduce executives for free to local market knowledge and valuable professional contacts as an independent global service through working relationships with many :
  •  Top executives facing strategic choices about where they will do business : where to establish, acquire, expand, move, consolidate or restructure their operations or alliances as markets and plans change.  These projects define the company's future structure.
  •  Economic development professionals representing areas which are motivated to attract and retain growing companies.  See the Contacts section for many examples.
  •  Professional service providers for direct investment projects in North America, Europe, Asia or worldwide.  Highly experienced specialists work on such projects, because large capital commitments and future performance risks are usually at stake.

Few executives face such challenges in their careers, so they often lack the network of contacts they need for an expansion project in a new business location.  It is difficult to qualify and select service providers or choose among competing location alternatives for major project plans while still performing other critical work.  We make it faster and easier.

Our independent services for direct investment projects are FREE because we are supported by professionals who can deliver valuable services to more executives than they might reach otherwise.  We work with executives in confidence about their plans.

This can include preliminary information-gathering and comparisons of project alternatives.

We organize and share extensive market knowledge, project experience, and contacts in a globally consistent way through this website and our many personal working relationships. 

This is a personal service to executives and advisors - not just website content and thousands of links to other sources of information.

Our work for executives is free because we are supported by leading professionals who can deliver valuable services to more executives than they might reach through their own professional networking, events, and marketing efforts.

We also welcome executive insights from "lessons learned" and "proven solutions" as tested through prior challenges when setting up, expanding, or relocating business operations.
Please contact us directly if we can support your strategic planning or direct investment project needs now or in the futureCall Bruce Donnelly at 847-304-4655 (Chicago)

Although we make it very easy to find thousands of useful resources worldwide directly through this website, we share further market knowledge on request, and can quickly address many common project issues through our research capabilities and personal networks of contacts.

We look forward to working with you - to grow your business faster and better, anywhere.

The "Seek Advice" section outlines topics which may be helpful to us as background to support your project plans.  A simple fax-back form can be downloaded for convenience :

Please let us know how we can improve our capabilities to support your interests.

Contact information for relationship leaders at Global Direct Investment Solutions : Please call us for well-qualified referrals

We develop and maintain working relationships among participating area representatives - economic development organizations - and professional service providers as well as senior corporate executives who are responsible for the planning of major projects such as new, relocated, expanded or consolidated offices, factories, distribution centers or other operations.

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Bruce Donnelly bruce@gdi-solutions.com 847-304-4655 847-304-5375
       
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