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Global Business Development

The Parntership's Global Business Development efforts work to attract businesses from around the globe to Detroit, while also helping the businesses currently in the region increase their presence. Partnership stafff travel globally to entice companies to either relcoate or invest in doing business in the Detroit region. The Partnership also helps businesses already located in the Detroit area "go global" and break into new markets around the world.

Geographic Focus

The Partnership's predominatly focuses on attracting businesses from Europe and Asia. The Partnership will continue to prospect clients by working key trade shows in Europe and Asia, as well as areas closer to our market, such as in Detroit and Chicago. These shows offer great opportunities to feed the Detroit pipeline with companies interested in the North American market, usually for the longer term. Several partnerships with European business development organizations will support our focus to proactively target these companies. These include organizations in Austria, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.

In 2010 the Partnership will continue expanding its geographic focus to new markets as it begins to incldue the MENA (Middle East North Africa) region in its business attraction plans.

Watch for more information on the Partnership's 2010 business development mission schedule including:

February 2010 - India - Read Travel Blog

March 2010 - United Arab Emirates

April 2010 - Germany

Industry Focus

As the Parntership contributes to the revitatlization of Detroit's economy, its business attraction efforts are currently focused on the following industries:

  • Transportation & logistics
  • Alternative energy
  • Aerospace
  • Medical devices
  • Homeland security

These areas were defined in collaboration with our key public sector partners.

Check out the Partnership's Travel Blog to keep up on our effort to bring new business to the region.

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