Contents :
Contents Global market overview
Global rankings
Market overview
About GILD
About IBM-PLI
1. Global market overview - July 2004:
1. Global market overview - July 2004 During the month July 2004 IBM-PLI recorded 961 investment project announcements worldwide, expected to create around 80,000 jobs.
2. Global rankings - July 2004:
2. Global rankings - July 2004
3. Market overview – Manufacturing:
3. Market overview – Manufacturing
3. Market overview – Services centers:
3. Market overview – Services centers
3. Market overview – R&D:
3. Market overview – R&D *The new hires for the 12 months that end June 30, 2005, will fill both newly created positions and jobs vacated by others.
4. About GILD:
4. About GILD What is GILD?
GILD is the Global Investment Locations Database developed by IBM-PLI that records investment project announcements around the world on an ongoing basis.
GILD is the leading corporate investment tracking database, allowing representative and up-to-date trend analysis on a global scale.
GILD monitors corporate investments at the project level. It records announcements and openings of new (greenfield) and expansion projects by companies globally. M&A and other forms of investment are not included, except if they lead to a new or expansion project.
For each investment project announcement we try to capture details on the investor, origin, location of investment, (sub-)sector and cluster, type of investment, jobs created, capital invested, etc. etc.
How is GILD used?
Corporate executives use GILD to monitor which locations are preferred options for other companies, and to assess whether these locations should be considered for their own projects. Also, GILD is used to monitor where peer companies are planning investments around the world.
Investment promotion agencies (IPAs) at both national and regional level use GILD for accurate and up-to-date FDI intelligence to support their increasingly focused and targeted matrix sector and activity strategies:
Monitor their performance relative to target sectors, competitor locations and global market trends.
Assess opportunities for investment promotion by analyzing sector and sub-sector growth or decline.
Identify main source markets and dynamic companies in target sectors for FDI promotion.
Assess location and resource allocation of overseas offices relative to market trends and target sectors.
Etc. etc. Note for IPAs: To make sure that your region is well represented in our GILD database, please send your investment project data to gild@be.ibm.com or contact Wim Douw at wim.douw@be.ibm.com
5. About IBM-PLI:
5. About IBM-PLI IBM-Plant Location International (IBM-PLI) is the global key practice within IBM Business Consulting Services specialised in corporate location and investment promotion/economic development services
Founded and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium; a second key practice is in New York
Unique and unrivalled experience: over 40 years active in this consulting area; multinational, multi-cultural and multilingual team of 35 full time, dedicated location consultants in two key practices, supported by many consultants in individual markets around the world.
Thought leader in developing new tools and techniques for location assessment; most innovative databases in market; trend setting in identifying new emerging location opportunities
Your partner from strategy to implementation:
For corporate clients:
from developing global and regional location strategies,
through community evaluation/selection
to property and incentives negotiations and implementation
For economic development/investment promotion agency clients:
from developing investment promotion strategies,
through organization optimization & development of marketing tools
to implementation of business environment improvements For further information please contact:
Roel Spee
Phone: +32 2 416 5928
roel.spee@be.ibm.com
Or
Wim Douw
Phone: +32 2 416 5407
wim.douw@be.ibm.com