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posted on Sunday, 29 May 2011 by Site Editor Comments Off

Enda Connolly has accumulated more than twenty years’ senior management experience and success in leading business critical functions for IDA Ireland, both at home and overseas. He has an in-depth understanding of strategic …

posted on Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011 by Alessandro Ravanetti Comments Off

Hyundai, the South Korean car manufacturer, plans to increase its position in Turkey. $500 million will be invested to start the production of a new model and increase the capacity at its Izmit plant.

2,000 new jobs will be …

posted on Monday, 28 Mar 2011 by Alessandro Ravanetti Comments Off

Schrader Electronics, a Northern Ireland based global market leader in the design, development and manufacture of remote tyre pressure monitoring systems for the automotive sector, plans to invest £29 million in growing its base.

The investment, that will create …

posted on Friday, 4 Mar 2011 by Alessandro Ravanetti Comments Off

French car manufacturer Renault plans to invest €5.7 billions in its car plants in Europe within 2013, of which 40% will be in France. The firm, which has been bailed out with a €3 billions …

posted on Monday, 21 Feb 2011 by Alessandro Ravanetti Comments Off

Ford Motor Company, the Detroit based American multinational carmaker, plans to invest $400 million in the next two years in its manufacturing plant in Kansas City, in order to start the production of a new …

posted on Monday, 17 Jan 2011 by John Hanna Comments Off

Pressure continues on Greece and Ireland, which received substantial EU and IMF financial bail-outs packages in 2010. Now European central bankers and bond investors continue to express concern over Spain’s situation. In particular, there are concerns over the growing debts of the devolved regions such as Catalonia and Valencia.

José Luis …

posted on Friday, 17 Dec 2010 by Alessandro Ravanetti Comments Off

£8bn to be invested in railways by UK government OK UK government plans to invest £8bn in national railway network, providing 2,000 new carriages and electrifying a number of routes across the country. London will be the …

posted on Friday, 8 Oct 2010 by Site Editor Comments Off

APIU Croatia to close

It’s hard to believe!  But Croatia’s government has decided to close TIPA/APIU, the trade and investment promotion agency after just a few years of activities.  If the rumours are true …

posted on Friday, 8 Oct 2010 by John Hanna Comments Off

No sooner than the impending demise of the UK’s regional development agencies has been announced than a barrage of criticism is being levied at the plans for their replacements – the local enterprise partnerships (LEP).  …

posted on Friday, 1 Oct 2010 by Christina Knutsson Comments Off

Just in the last few weeks we’ve seen changes emerging from latin American IPAs. After four years of life, last month the government of Argentina buried its national IPA ProsperAr. Its director Beatriz Nofal found out she lost her job by reading the change of decree in the Boletin …