| Organization Name, Description - and link to
Service Profile if available |
Website |
Suggested Contact |
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Publications about business
locations
See also :
Consultant Tips
and Media Search |
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fDi Magazine, by FT Business (The Financial
Times group) is the leading global publication focusing on foreign direct
investment. Published bi-monthly, it is read by over 45,000 senior business
executives and their location advisors.
Editorial calendar and rates.
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www.fdimagazine.com |
Bruce Donnelly - US sales rep in Chicago
847-304-4655 |
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Expansion Management magazine.
Subscriptions are easily arranged, since their advertisers want to reach
potential project decision-makers. |
www.expansionmanagement.com
www.eminfo.org
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Gorton Wood, Publisher |
| Site Selection magazine, published by Conway Data, which
also publishes Site Selection Insider weekly e-mail broadcast and a
website directory of economic development agencies. See also IAMC
association, which Conway Data created and manages. |
www.siteselection.com
www.sitenet.com
www.conway.com |
Ron Starner, Director of Publications
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Area Development
magazine
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www.area-development.com
www.areadevelopment.com
www.fastfacility.com
www.locationusa.com
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Dennis Shea,
Publisher
Geraldine Gambale,
Editor
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Business Facilities magazine.
Their editorial content generally seems to be fairly advertorial in nature.
Today's Business Facility Manager is another one of their publications. |
www.businessfacilities.com
www.facilitycity.com |
Karim Khan, Editor in
Chief |
| Business XPansion Journal,
affiliated with various service providers |
www.bxjonline.com |
Rachel Duran, Sr. Editor |
| GCX - Global Corporate Xpansion |
www.gcx-online.com |
Rachel Duran, Mg. Editor |
| Southern Automotive
Corridor - a publication of Southern Business & Development magazine with a
focus on automotive industry locations and economic development in the
southern US; based in Alabama |
www.southernautocorridor.com
www.sb-d.com |
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| Expansion Solutions
magazine. Content seems to be advertorial in nature. |
www.ExpansionSolutionsMagazine.com |
800-663-8791 |
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Plants, Sites & Parks magazine
was published by Reed Business Information, and was a well-respected leader
in this field for decades, but ceased publication in
November 2004 . The website, which had several thousand pages
of useful articles, is no longer available. |
www.bizsites.com NO LONGER IN USE |
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Corporate Location
magazine (also known for a while as SDI - Strategic Direct Investor ) was
published quarterly by Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc. In the
past they also organized events for investment promotion agencies in Europe
and the US. They were to publish a new annual magazine for
WAIPA (UNCTAD) called
GlobalExchange, at the
UNCTAD XI summit in
Brazil. |
www.corporatelocation.com
no updates since May 2004 |
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| Business Development Outlook magazine, published by WEDA.
Content is largely advertorial, attracting economic development participants to WEDA services (advertising
and trade show
events). |
www.bdomagazine.com
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| The Economist Intelligence Unit, publishes
market research for subscribers |
www.eiu.com
www.ebusinessforum.com |
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| FDI.net replaced IPAnet, Investment Promotion Network, published by MIGA
(Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency -
www.miga.org ), part of The World
Bank, which also publishes FDI Exchange and PrivatizationLink, with a focus
on less developed countries |
www.fdi.net
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| Economic Development America - new
journal created for the US Dept of Commerce EDA "Economic Development
Information Coalition", consisting of IEDC, NARC, and NADO |
www.doc.gov/eda |
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| American Journalism Review
- site with links to local papers in many areas of the US |
www.newslink.org |
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| PricewaterhouseCoopers "Doing Business In ..." - series of published country reports, available for a fee, prepared every few years by local offices.
Largely tax focus but with a
wider perspective for investors and consistent structure. Often
available in public libraries |
www.pwcglobal.com |
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Professional Associations
(see also business associations and
chambers, below) |
see also
Event Search |
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| Utility Economic Development
Association - association of investor-owned utilities actively engaged in
economic development work in their service areas. Organizes summer
and winter events as well as special educational programs for senior
executives in economic development (not limited to utilities), such as in
cooperation with
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. |
www.utilityeda.com
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NRECA is the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association, known by
the Touchstone brand.
Touchstone Energy Cooperatives provides a commercial and industrial real
estate property listing service,
SitesAcrossAmerica.com, to promote business sites and buildings in
their service areas nationwide. They serve 75% of the United States as
a network of more than 900 local electric utility systems in 46 states for
electric distribution or generation and transmission. |
www.SitesAcrossAmerica.com
www.nreca.org
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Tim Sullivan
TEL 651-686-7477
based in Minnesota |
| NAIOP - National Association of
Industrial and Office Properties - corporate real estate association, also
publishes Development magazine |
www.naiop.org
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| SIOR - Society of Industrial & Office
Realtors |
www.sior.com
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| NAFTZ - National Association of Foreign
Trade Zones ( FTZ ) |
www.naftz.org
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| International Facilities Management
Association - organizes World Workplace event in October |
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David Brady, President &
CEO |
| Association for Facilities Engineering
- professional association for CPE (Certified Plant Engineer) and CPMM
(Certified Plant Maintenance Manager), publishes Facilities Engineering
Journal and Facilities America event - in 2003 jointly with IFMA event |
www.afe.org |
Gerald Hagen,
President
Gabriella Jacobs,
Editor |
| Industrial Asset Management Council
is a new association
launched by Conway Data in October 2002 with Site Selection
magazine as its official publication, endorsed by their own
DevelopmentAlliance.com joint venture with IEDC. The focus is on networking and
educational programs for the management of industrial facilities, such as
typical functions of a corporate real estate department in a major company. |
www.iamc.org
www.iamcnet.org
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Ron Starner, Conway Data |
| CoreNet Global (formerly IDRC and NACORE)
- professional association for corporate real estate executives, related
service providers, and economic development agencies worldwide.
Organizes networking and professional development events, certification
programs, and educational programs, publications, and
awards to share knowledge among corporate real estate professionals and
related service providers.
Contact us if you would like to meet at CoreNet in Orlando, November
2006. |
www.corenetglobal.org
We were past sponsors:
2004
Economic Development Awards |
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| Urban Land Institute -
community development planning, publishes research reports (some books on
Amazon.com) |
www.uli.org
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IEDC : International Economic Development Council
- professional association. Publishes links and some information about
sponsors and member areas through their website. Organizes events and
professional development and certification programs, including peer
recognition
awards. Publishes member newsletters and magazines to share
knowledge among economic development agencies. See
DevelopmentAlliance.com, below. |
www.iedconline.org |
Jeff Finkle, President
202-223-7800
(Washington, DC) |
| National Association of Regional
Councils (NARC) - for regional development |
www.narc.org
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| National Association of Development
Organizations (NADO) - for regional development |
www.nado.org
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| World Association of Investment
Promotion Agencies - supported by UNCTAD, UNIDO, OECD as well as MIGA and
FIAS of the World Bank Group |
www.waipa.org |
Patricia Francis,
President |
| EURADA - a European association of development agencies |
www.eurada.org |
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| EDAC - Economic Development Association
of Canada |
www.edac.ca
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| BURA - British Urban Regeneration
Association - a forum to exchange private and public sector ideas and best
practices about regeneration of urban areas; collaborates with IEDC |
www.bura.org.uk |
John Walker, Chief
Executive |
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Location data publishers - see also :
DataPointers and
GIS maps
Some of the
location magazine publishers above offer data on their websites |
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DevelopmentAlliance.com is a portal intended for reference by executives as
a joint venture of IEDC and
Site Selection magazine
(published by Conway Data), originally intended to selectively publish
standard data profiling local
communities in one place for a small fee.
It has many links, mainly to other Conway Data content.
Few areas have chosen to publish and
maintain their community data through this portal's centralized database
service, instead of through their own promotional websites.
This portal has been promoted to executives through an advertising deal by IEDC with Forbes
magazine, plus some publicity through Site Selection magazine and various
Conway Data websites. Banner ads seem to be the main focus now. |
www.DevelopmentAlliance.com
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| USA Trade's Country Commercial Guides (US Govt) - annual guides to doing business in specific countries,
prepared by the commercial sections of US Embassies |
www.usatrade.gov/website/ccg.nsf |
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| Stat-USA, source for
various US government publications such as the National Trade Data Bank,
Country Commercial Guides, etc. |
www.stat-usa.gov |
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The PRS Group - Political Risk
Services
International Country Risk Guide
Country Data
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www.prsonline.com
www.icrgonline.com
www.countrydata.com |
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| Business Monitor International - Emerging Markets Online
- macroeconomic research on many countries, subscription |
www.businessmonitor.com |
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| Corporate Real Estate media
- see also
CRE service
providers |
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| Real Estate Forum (by Real Estate Media
Inc.), which also publishes GlobeSt.com and various regional magazines for
corporate real estate professionals, such as Real Estate New York, Real
Estate New Jersey, and Real Estate Southern California, as well as
organizing the RealShare conferences in various major cities such as Boston,
Chicago, New York, Phoenix, Orange County, San Diego, and elsewhere |
www.reforum.com
www.globest.com
www.remedianetwork.com
www.realshareconferences.com
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| Commercial Property News - newsletter
for real estate services |
www.cpnonline.com |
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| National Real Estate Investor (Primedia) |
www.nreionline.com |
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| Corporate Real Estate Leader - official publication
of CoreNet Global Learning for members |
www.corenetglobal.org
Corporate Real Estate Leader |
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| Journal of Corporate Real Estate - new journal produced by CoreNet
Learning and Henry Stewart Publications in the UK |
www.henrystewart.com |
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| Other business media |
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| BBC World Service, and
Global Business Programme |
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business |
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| Country Watch international news alerts |
www.countrywatch.com |
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| Emerging Markets Online |
www.emerging-markets.com |
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| The Financial Times, often publishes supplemental reports about
the business environment in particular countries or industries and about FDI
- and publishes a related fDi magazine with location features |
www.ft.com
www.fdimagazine.com |
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| Foreign Affairs magazine -
foreign policy, with more governmental than business focus |
www.foreignaffairs.org |
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| Foreign Policy magazine - note related
publications such as the Globalization Report prepared with A.T.Kearney, and
the Insiders Guide to Global Research on the Web |
www.foreignpolicy.com
www.globalnewstand.com |
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| Global Finance magazine - frequent
features about leading banks, and special country reports about political -
economic and finance issues |
www.gfmag.com |
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| The Globalist - online
features on global economy, politics, history, culture |
www.theglobalist.com |
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IndustryWeek magazine, by Penton Media, for manufacturing executives.
It includes a
"Best Plants" awards feature in July and October, and related
events featuring the winners, plus a "Strategic Siting" column about
location choices for specific projects. |
www.industryweek.com
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| Sourcingmag.com provides
practical advice about IT and business process outsourcing (BPO), including
location and service provider selection. |
www.sourcingmag.com |
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| World Trade magazine -
focus on trade, logistics and recent market changes |
www.worldtrademag.com |
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| WorldNews.com - recent
news reports |
www.worldnews.com |
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| Other resources |
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| MIPIM - Reed Midem, International Property Market
organizer of trade show in Europe (March, in Cannes) for corporate real estate, investment
promotion |
www.mipim.com |
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| Computer Systems Policy Project - industry policy group,
developed "readiness guide" tool potentially useful for community planning
of infrastructure "for living in the networked world" |
www.cspp.org |
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| National Association of Manufacturers - Site Selection Network
- a free service to NAM members, compiling basic presentations about
participating areas in response to their specified search criteria for
projects, and offering introductions if interested |
www.nam.org |
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| Foreign Policy |
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| Foreign Service Journal -
by the American Foreign Service Association, which is basically a
professional association of the US diplomatic service, but this magazine
reaches a larger audience with diverse views about current issues in foreign
policy |
www.afsa.org/fsj |
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| Public Diplomacy - by USIA
Alumni Association (US Information Agency) |
www.publicdiplomacy.org |
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| Georgetown Journal of
International Affairs - from the Edmund A. Walsh School of the Foreign
Service at Georgetown University |
www.journal.georgetown.edu |
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| American Diplomacy -
quarterly journal by U of N Carolina Diplomacy Dept |
www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat |
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| Coalition for American
Leadership Abroad (COLEAD) - with links related to US foreign affairs
institutions |
www.colead.org |
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| National Strategy Forum |
www.nationalstrategy.com |
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| US Council for International Business |
www.uscib.org |
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| Council on Foreign
Relations - New York and Washington DC |
www.cfr.org
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| Chicago Council on Foreign Relations |
www.ccfr.org |
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| Chatham House - The Royal Institute of
International Affairs in London is now referred to as Chatham House.
It addresses political, business, security and other international issues. |
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk |
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| The Heritage Foundation for
Policy Research and Analysis |
www.heritage.org |
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| Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace |
www.ceip.org |
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| Ethics & International
Affairs - journal from the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs |
www.carnegiecouncil.org |
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| Brookings Institution
Press |
www.brookings.edu
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| Business Associations and Chambers
Refer to regional or state
directories for local chambers, or
international business forums |
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| The World Economic Forum
and World Link
magazine |
www.weforum.org
www.worldlink.co.uk |
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| World Trade Centers Association |
www.wtca.org |
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| Organization for International Investment |
www.ofii.org |
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| Partners for the Americas |
www.partners.net |
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| World Trade Organization |
www.wto.org |
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| International Chamber of Commerce |
www.iccwbo.org |
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| US Chamber of Commerce |
www.uschamber.org |
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| The Conference Board |
www.conference-board.org |
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| The Business Roundtable |
www.brtable.org |
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