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fDi
magazine, published by the Financial Times Group, hosted a very popular
event about investment trends in North America at the
IEDC Annual Conference
in New York. Speakers (bios below) included site
consultant Roel Spee of IBM - Plant Location
International and Paul Wright of Oxford Intelligence.
Courtney Fingar, Editor of fDi magazine (Foreign Direct Investment),
was the panel moderator. A similar expert panel presentation in Chicago
during BIO 2006 was also very popular.
Contact :
Bruce Donnelly TEL 847-304-4655 in Chicago about co-sponsoring future events
in the USA with fDi magazine.
US advertising for fDi -
see
editorial calendar and rates |
IEDC NY attendees : download
speaker presentations below As IEDC sponsors, we
had a booth where we explained the new 2007 North
American Location Guide as well as the North
American Cities of the Future awards.
The North American Location Guide will
be a quick reference tool for investors and their professional advisors.
This will have 1, 2, or 4 page presentations about business locations
and services, as well as sponsored industry sector reports. It will be
promoted in fDi magazine, at events such as MIPIM, BIO, and CoreNet, and
online throughout 2007. This will be similar to a June 2005 feature.
See back issues. To subscribe :
Use the fDi
order form or
contact us Examples:
who reads fDi magazine? |
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2007 North American Cities of the Future
award program of fDi magazine |
Search back issues
of fDi magazine |
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The 2007 North American Location
Guide
appeared the February 2007 issue.
This will be integrated into the
new fDi Atlas which is launching online
in May 2007.
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Editor's
introduction to fDi magazine
including the bio for Courtney Fingar,
Editor
and highlights of fDi magazine circulation
data |
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fDi magazine is an FT Business specialty magazine for top
executives and advisors who are responsible for capital investment project
decisions. See Editor's introduction.
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fDi isn't just about "foreign" investment locations or
exclusively
targeted at "foreign" investors. Roughly 85% of the readers are top executives
at large companies (>500 employees). The global
C-level reach (40% North America, 40% Europe / EMEA, and 20% Asia Pacific)
is unique in this market.
The quality of fDi reflects the high standards for
independent research and useful content which top executives and
professionals expect of an FT Business publication. |
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PDF copies of speaker presentations at IEDC NY fDi event |
www.fdimagazine.com
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The following links are to download copies of the
presentations about capital investment project trends in North American in a
global context from our September 19, 2006 sessions at the IEDC Annual
Conference in New York.
We welcome
feedback and suggestions for future events such as this.
fDi hosts a similar presentation during BIO conferences, such
as BIO 2007 in Boston.
Contact us about invitations or event co-sponsorship. |
The presentations provided an overview of investment
highlights and trends in 2005 and 2006 in various industry sectors, with a
particular emphasis on the United States.
Attendees were also encouraged to participate in the
2007/2008 North American Cities of the Future competition - which is similar
to the research work which was featured in June 2005 about cities and states
in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
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Speakers at the IEDC Annual
Conference in New York |
Ask us about future event plans by
fDi magazine |
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Roel Spee
EMEA and Asia-Pacific Leader
IBM-Plant Location
International (IBM-PLI)
Global Location
Strategies
Woluwedal 22
1932 Sint-Stevens-Woluwe
Brussels, Belgium
TEL 011 32 2 416 5928
Fax 011 32 2 721 5569
mobile 011
32 475 915 832
roel.spee@be.ibm.com
www.ibm.com/bcs/pli
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Gene DePrez
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Roel Spee has over
20 years of experience as a consultant advising corporate executives where
to locate businesses around the world, as well as economic development
organizations on how best to attract these businesses.
He coordinates these services of IBM-PLI on a global basis
working together with consultants and experts in North America, Europe and
Asia-Pacific. Over the course of his career, Roel Spee has built up
huge expertise in advising international companies in location choices for a
broad variety of industries and investment projects.
He assisted corporate clients with strategic location
choices for more than 200 projects.
Based on this broad experience with
international companies' location behavior, Roel has also developed strong
experience in advising investment promotion and economic development
agencies on how to develop strategies to stimulate inward investment and
improve business conditions to attract new investors. Customers worked
for include agencies around the world, both in developed economies and
developing countries.
Roel is regularly invited to write articles in leading
industry magazines and speak at conferences, seminars, and such to share his
experience on investment decision making with audiences of both corporate
executives and government officials. He is member of various advisory
committees on inward investment. |
Gene DePrez has over 30 years of experience in corporate
location strategy, site selection, economic development and global
competitiveness. He leads IBM Global Location Strategies, part of the
Strategy & Change practice of IBM Global Business Services, now the largest
management consulting organization in the world.
Until its acquisition by IBM, his practice operated within
PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gene has also served as vice president of PHH Fantus
and Principal of Fluor Daniel Consulting, and earlier was president/CEO of
Partnerships DataNet in Washington DC, a predecessor of the Points of Light
Foundation. He has also been a university administrator and held marketing
positions with Eastman Kodak.
Gene focuses on integrating business location strategy, and implementation
of expansion and relocation plans on a global basis. He has led engagements
placing headquarters, research centers and other major business units for
Citigroup, John Wiley & Sons Publishing, Novartis, Chiquita Brands, Philip
Morris, Honeywell, Phillip Morris, Hertz Corporation, Shire Pharmaceuticals,
Lowe’s Group, Netscape, Unilever, American Red Cross, Master Card, UPS and
Blue Cross/Blue Shield among many others.
He has directed economic development strategy and
transformational projects for Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, New York,
New Jersey, Research Triangle,
Toledo/NW Ohio, Greater Phoenix, Baltimore, Newark, Rochester, and Greenville
among others.
He serves on the Board of the International Economic
Development Council and on the Executive Committee of Partners for Livable
Communities. Additionally, Gene is a frequent speaker at business
investment, real estate and economic development conferences. He has been
quoted recently by the BBC, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, US News & World Report, Global Finance and Forbes
and he has authored numerous articles in trade journals. |
Courtney Fingar, Editor
fDi - Foreign Direct Investment
Financial Times - FT Business
Number One
Southwark Bridge
London, England
SE1 9HL United Kingdom
TEL +44 (0)207 775 6365
From USA dial as
TEL 011 44 207 775 6365
courtney.fingar@ft.com
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Paul Wright,
Director
Oxford
Intelligence (OI Ltd)
Marron House
Whaddon Hall
Whaddon MK17 ONA
United Kingdom
Tel: 011 +44 1908 521477
Fax: 011 +44 1908 521476
enquiries@ipaworld.com
Oxford
Intelligence
www.oxint.com
publisher of IPA
World
www.ipaworld.com |
Paul Wright,
Director
Oxford
Intelligence
Raadhuilsaan 3A,
Wassenaar 2242 CR, Netherlands.
Tel / Fax 011+31 70 5144113
Mobile: 011+31 61
5010498
paul.wright@oxint.com
See also :
www.corptracker.com
Subscription-based market research about investment plans |
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See also :
2005
Award presentations Courtney Fingar is editor of
fDi magazine, the specialist inward
investment title of the Financial Times Group. Now just over five years old,
fDi has an audited circulation of 15,000 and a readership of 45,000 --
consisting mainly of senior-level executives for the world's top companies
as well as some SMEs, location consultants, governments, legal advisers,
property consultants and investment promotion agencies.
Ms Fingar joined the Financial Times Group in November 2004, having
previously served as editor of Trade & Forfaiting Review, a monthly magazine
produced by the Ark Group in London that focused on the niche industry of
trade, export and commodities finance.
Prior to relocating to the United Kingdom in 2001, she worked in Washington,
DC, first for the National Journal Group as a writer for an online
environmental news service and later for Trade Communications International
as a reporter and editor for Global Business magazine, a 90,000-circulaton
monthly that reported on international trade and investment for a US
executive audience.
Ms Fingar has a BA in journalism from the University of Alabama in the
United States and an MSc in International and European Politics, with a
special focus on political economy and trade issues, from the University of
Edinburgh in Scotland. |
Paul Wright has worked in the world of Foreign Direct
Investment for over sixteen years. He is currently Global Director, Sales
and Marketing for Oxford Intelligence Ltd, a position that he has held since
March 2006.
His career in FDI has been predominantly with the Welsh
Development Agency (WDA). He started his career with the WDA as Country
Manager Italy, here he opened up the WDA’s office in Milan in 1995. Italy
quickly became the WDA’s leading European market for the generation of new
inward investment projects into Wales – in the late 1990’s Wales was
capturing between 60% and 100% of all UK bound Italian investment. Paul
personally sourced and negotiated these investments.
In 1998 he was promoted to the position of European Director
for the WDA – with responsibility for all of the WDA’s lead generation and
FDI marketing strategy throughout Europe together with its overseas sales
force. The main areas of activity were France, Germany, Nordics, Benelux and
Italy.
In 2001 he was again promoted to the position of Executive
Vice President Europe and North America. His overall areas of responsibility
increased and he became responsible for the marketing implementation,
strategy of the WDA’s FDI activities throughout North America and Europe.
Within three years the overall brand image of the WDA improved significantly
within North America. Throughout this period the WDA was consistently one of
Europe’s best performing development agencies.
In March 2006 Paul joined Oxford Intelligence Ltd as Global
Sales and Marketing Director. Based in the Netherlands, he now has overall
responsibility for the delivery of OI’s range of consultancy products and
services. OI’s client base is mainly the leading economic development
agencies in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, UK and many states in North
America and Canada. Its products and services are centred on Foreign Direct
Investment, focusing on cross border activities of companies moving
internationally. |
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If your organization would be interested
in advertising or co-sponsoring special events with fDi magazine, please
contact :
Bruce Donnelly TEL 847-304-4655 in Chicago
US marketing and sales
representative for fDi
Bruce Donnelly
President
Global Direct
Investment Solutions
P.O. Box 439
Fox River Grove,
IL 60021-0439
(in far NW Chicago
suburbs)
bruce@gdi-solutions.com
TEL 847-304-4655
FAX 847-304-5375
Cell :
847-951-2913
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