Our group of companies have spent the past 25 years helping organisations expand, relocate and trade in most countries around the world. We have noticed an increase in smaller companies and corporations from rapidly developing economies such as China, Russia, India and Brazil that are looking to invest and expand into new and emerging markets.

Globalization is entering the boardrooms of many new players who are realising that, information and contacts are the key to any successful investment project. With the current climate in mind, we have decided to make our information and contacts available to a global audience FREE via this portal. The portal will focus on the 12 new EU member states, and will expand to cover over 60 high growth Nations.

When a large corporation is looking to invest into a new economy, the costs are substantial leaving no room for error. A new chip plant for Intel costs around $2.5 Billion and can take three to four years to build. There are many factors to take into account with any investment project, with location, infrastructure, available labour force, local schooling and acceptance of westerners within the region being some of the first hurdles to overcome.

The difference between a corporation and an SME is that the corporation can allocate a team of 20 plus people to assess the location, and then spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on consultancy. In many cases an SME does not have the resources or money to invest in even looking at alternative markets, leaving a potential cost reduction or expansion possibility dormant.

The portal’s simple user interface provides a personal online briefcase for registered clients where you can add parts of the report that most interest you. The briefcase provides you with the opportunity to read, forward to a colleague, print or store the information for future reference. Our supplier database covers over 20 categories of business that will help you make contact with companies who have been visited by one of our consultants or representatives and audited to our own internal procedures, a copy of this document is available to view / download within the supplier database.

Our first report will focus on Poland, a nation that in 2007 recorded the largest flow of foreign direct investment, nearly double that of its nearest rival, and a country with nearly 70 billion euro EU funding to help prepare the country as co-hosts of the Euro 2012 Championship.

This portal will educate and assist companies seeking alternative markets for either investment or growth, and will present new opportunities for local companies within each country to attract new investments, collaborations and clients from around the globe.