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posted on Wednesday, 30 Jun 2010 by Christina Knutsson No Comments

The decision to brand a nation and how to do it  is a challenge to crack for any Government… as a nation, the government must ask itself… are we brand-ready?

The core stakeholders, normally lead by the highest echelon of Government (big budget $$$), need to agree

posted on Wednesday, 2 Jun 2010 by Ruben Anton No Comments

June 2, 2010. From June 3 to 4, 2010, Tunisia will host the Carthage forum on investment, a traditional international meeting held by the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) in Gammarth (north of Tunisia).

Aiming at making better known …

posted on Wednesday, 2 Jun 2010 by Ruben Anton No Comments

June 2, 2010. London maintained its position as the most attractive European city for inward investment in 2009 for the eighth year in a row, a new Ernst & Young report said. The big European economies held up relatively well in terms of their ability to attract inward investment, the consultants …

posted on Tuesday, 1 Jun 2010 by Ruben Anton No Comments

June 1, 2010. (provided by KOTRA)

Cho Hwan-eik, center, president of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, poses with representatives from local companies that develop characters used in animations and for promotion during a ceremony at Kotra in Yangjae-dong, southern Seoul, yesterday. …

posted on Thursday, 20 May 2010 by Christina Knutsson No Comments

Two of the world’s top agencies have recently said goodbye to their names.

Goodbye ISA, hello Invest Sweden

The official Swedish government agency for investment promotion, Invest in Sweden Agency, was founded fifteen years ago. It has until now …

posted on Monday, 10 May 2010 by Ruben Anton No Comments

May 10, 2010 – Cuba has announced plans to relax real estate regulations in order to attract inward investment from overseas developers in an effort to boost its tourism industry.

Newly revealed plans involve allowing foreign parties to construct attractions – …

posted on Thursday, 25 Feb 2010 by Christina Knutsson No Comments

Then speak with the leads generator! For me this is what the IPA job is all about – generating new investment leads. During my time at Invest in Sweden my colleagues and I used the full range of lead generating tools. First, I focused on the move from reactive to proactive …

posted on Thursday, 25 Feb 2010 by John Hanna No Comments

Recently a promotion agency client from a top global city asked: “what should we do next?” I took a look. Well, the new city logo looks great, but it didn’t project anything new or compelling. Furthermore, the overriding “messages” were the same as before.

The key questions asked to me were …

posted on Monday, 22 Feb 2010 by Greg Bishop No Comments

In these tough times its tempting to drastically reduce or cut marketing spend, sack the design agency, and try doing everything in-house. There are several flaws with this approach.

·         Loss of competitive advantage – Other Investment Promotion Agencies who continue to …

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 …