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Videos Of the Month

Here are our featured place marketing promotion videos of the month from around the world – a selection from hundreds of Good, Bad and Ugly clips that we have collected to entertain you. Register on this website to view the full range, to add your own excellent (of course!) clips, or to access other useful and unique stuff for investment promotion and lead generation. Enjoy!

Netherlands NFIA

Our video of the month – an excellent promotional 2 minutes!

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http://www.nfia.nl/why_invest_in_holland.html


International Business Wales

A simple and quite original “ad”, low budget and quite effective.

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Michigan Advantage

Well, how many regions are now promoting environmental technology, renewable energy etc.? Michigan sets a competitive benchmark for other locations around the world.

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IDA Ireland

A simply delivered but slightly enigmatic ad that promotes Ireland’s knowledge base. I hope investors understand and appreciate the message.

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Business Friendly Bahrain

A well distributed ad series from EDB Bahrain in 2009. Simple idea, big production and well… at least it gave Bahrain some good exposure on BBC World.

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Invest in Bangladesh

For an LDC this is a great video from BOI Bangladesh. It helps to inform, shift perceptions and develop a sympathetic mind amongst investors.

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Invest Japan

Maybe an old video but it shows how things are changing in Japan.

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Latest from our bloggers

Charles Hardeman
posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 by Charles Hardeman No Comments

Inflationary Pressures are Preventing Central Banks from Easing Financial Stresses -

The Good News (and the Bad) for PPP’s and PFI in the UK.

There has been a lot written and discussed recently about the UK Government’s “Sustainable Investment …

Charles Hardeman
posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 by Charles Hardeman No Comments

At the beginning of this month, the UK government changed the rules for profit sharing for the development of infrastructure in partnership with private companies under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), known elsewhere as public private partnership (PPP).

Almost 800 projects, worth …

Charles Hardeman
posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 by Charles Hardeman No Comments

Infrastructure Development Opportunities Emerge from the Downturn in the Gulf

Amidst the celebratory fireworks at the launch of Dubai’s 1,500 room Hotel Atlantis in November, there were less than celebratory murmurings about the state of the countries economy, …

Charles Hardeman
posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 by Charles Hardeman No Comments

Despite the global financial and economic difficulties, Abu Dhabi is continuing to develop the Masdar Initiative – to pursue “solutions to some of mankind’s most pressing issues: energy security, climate change and truly sustainable human development”. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

What’s the PPP angle? Well, the government of Abu Dhabi is …

Charles Hardeman
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… If PFI Projects are to Proceed in the UK.

As reported in an earlier paper (see August and November 2008 blogs), many building projects under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK, in which the private sector and their bankers develop and fund major infrastructure projects and …