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Navman Wireless is spearheading the global proliferation of vehicle tracking technology with the launch of its award-winning system into Italy, Taiwan and Mexico. The company, which tracks more than 110,000 vehicles worldwide, launched its new operations following in depth research and pilot ventures to assess the respective international markets. Navman …

posted on Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 by Site Editor No Comments

Christina Knutsson, is a director of GDP Global since 2005. She has 16 years’ direct experience in economic promotion, working with and on behalf of European, African and Latin American investment promotion and economic development agencies at …

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John Hanna, a Director of GDP Global, has 19 years’ experience in economic development at strategy and senior operational level. He worked with the UK’s Welsh Development Agency as a senior investment promotion and marketing director for eight years.
Since forming GDP …

posted on Tuesday, 6 Oct 2009 by John Hanna No Comments

An article in the Scottish press back in January asking “How do you measure whether location A or location B is a better place to do business?”

This week Ernst & Young’s European Investment Monitor (EIM)

posted on Monday, 5 Oct 2009 by John Hanna No Comments

What’s in a name – well quite a lot actually. Quirky IPA names – which have you noticed?

It’s a small point but can make a big difference. I’ve noticed that in recent weeks, maybe a few months, three important …

posted on Wednesday, 9 Sep 2009 by Site Editor No Comments

The 15 billion euro in foreign investment in Bulgaria in the past three year exceeds the sum of foreign investments in the preceding 15 years, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said on September 12 2008.

Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) quoted Stanishev as saying this at the opening in Bulgaria’s Danube city of …

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H.E. Vincenzo Parati, Italian Ambassador based in Pakistan, has assured to strengthen collaboration with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) for promotion of business relations between Italian Machinery Manufacturers and SMEs in Pakistan.

While exchanging his views with Mr. Shahid Rashid, …

posted on Wednesday, 9 Sep 2009 by Site Editor No Comments

Russia, the world’s biggest oil and natural gas exporter, is considering cutting its 2009 forecast for crude to $US90 from $US95 to account for a faltering global economy.

“The world’s economy is stopping,” Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in Washington, where world …

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The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) said this week it had conducted a successful investment promotion mission to Germany, targeting key business leaders in three cities. The highlight of the mission was a well-attended investment promotion seminar at the …

posted on Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 by Site Editor No Comments

Georgia, which a year before had been an obscure, failing state in the Caucasus, with a GDP of £2.2 billion and widespread poverty, had been dragged out of a decade of corruption-induced slumber by the Rose Revolution, and a new sense …