International Update

Analysis used to arrive at Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings produced another benefit — an opportunity to shed light on investment in European metros that don’t often make headlines.

That’s what viewers of such films as “2012,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Titanic” and “Transformers” frequently say of the Academy-Award-winning work of Digital Domain, the Venice, Calif.-based visual effects studio that is owned by Florida investment and technology firm Wyndcrest Holdings.

Look past the Canadian Rockies and their travel and tourism draw, and even past Alberta’s booming bituminous sands region, and you’ll find Western Canada’s next signature industry — aerospace.

Investors in Mexico’s industrial market no longer brush aside concerns of escalating violence. Nor are they dissuaded from new investment, given the bigger picture.

Fresh from a trade mission to Germany, Sandra Pupatello, Ontario’s minister of trade and economic development, says she fielded lots of questions from business people about the economic state of things in North America.

Germany posted a GDP growth rate of 2.2 percent in the second quarter of 2010, the highest in 20 years.

A key component of the Iskandar Malaysia project in Johor took a key step forward earlier this year when the Senai Hi-Tech Park (Senai HTP) signed its first tenants.

Is there any business more Canadian than Tim Hortons?

Prince Edward Island may be comparatively diminutive in land area, but it’s just the right size — with room to grow — for a certain brand of biotech.

Drug violence has escalated, U.S. National Guard troops are being deployed and bi-national political tensions are rising

Southeast Asia: Good Food = Good Growth

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown proclaimed in January that his government’s support for offshore wind energy has anchored the U.K. as a global leader

For the nation hosting this year’s World Cup for the first time on African soil, it only makes sense that two of its largest corporate facility projects are measured in football fields.

Two thousand nine was a difficult year for the economies of Latin America, especially Mexico.

Merging real estate portfolios after a corporate acquisition is never easy. When it involves a portfolio the size of a small city, the task becomes daunting. Such is the case in the heart of Berlin, where Bayer AG is digesting Schering AG’s huge pharmaceutical and manufacturing complex following the companies’ 2006 merger.

Toronto is making a concerted effort to become Canada’s next nexus of digital media. .