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| International
Business
We
identify and develop profitable long-term business ventures in other
countries through direct investments, joint ventures, technology
transfers, trade and licensing agreements. Our services include market
research, the identification of business partners, market penetration
strategies, financing, contract negotiation, site location, mergers,
and takeovers. Among the industrial sectors in which we have assisted
companies to secure international business are: automotive parts,
automobiles, food and cold storage, pulp and paper, bio-chemicals,
industrial chemicals, computer software, printing machinery,
publishing, electronic components, solvents, metalworking, mineral
extraction, banking, printing, moulded plastics and office furniture. |
| Industrial
Development and Investment Promotion
We
have special expertise in industrial development and the implementation
of programs to attract private sector investment to a specific country
or region. This includes advising public economic development agencies
on infrastructure requirements, financing, incentives packages and
marketing strategies. We also identify and recruit potential investors
worldwide. Our firm has planned, designed and implemented investment
promotion programs in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Togo,
Trinidad and Tobago, the United States and Uruguay. |
| Marketing
and Market Research
Clients
frequently ask us for assistance in identifying, understanding and
penetrating new markets in North America and overseas. Research is only
part of our service in this area. We also provide a complete marketing
and market development capability that begins with problem
identification and ends with a comprehensive strategy for bringing our
client's message dynamically and cost-effectively to the customer. |
| Corporate
Restructuring and Management
We
conduct complete reappraisals of organizations (both commercial and
non-profit) including their financial and executive structures,
management, staffing and operations. We provide help and hands-on
advice in implementing our recommendations and, at the request of
clients, can take executive responsibility for seeing them through to
completion. |
| Culture
and Communications
We
have in-depth expertise in the field of culture and communications. Our
experience includes feasibility studies for major new arts centres, and
extensive hands-on consulting work for the broadcast and publishing
media, for museums and art galleries, for live music and theatre
performance, and for broadly defined leisure facilities. Arts
organizations, government departments, NGOs and commercial
organizations operating in the cultural field are all included among
our clients. |
| Tourism
and Leisure
Effective
marketing ensures that cultural and tourism organizations develop
healthy clientele for their programs, services or destinations. We
identify existing markets and explore new ones; and we offer a
marketing capability that begins with market analysis and ends with
detailed and cost-effective strategies for success. Our team of
consultants and associates have expertise in festival development,
ecological impact analysis, ecotourism development, wildlands
management, travel industry training, naturalist guide training, travel
show consulting, and the greening of tourism organizations and
products. |