International Update

Eastern Europe’s 22 countries have always been at different stages of development and levels of attractiveness for foreign investors.

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

Québec’s Minister of International Relations Pierre Arcand looks to new ties to unbind the province from its traditional industrial past.

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.

Belgium is a significant center of life sciences development, both in biotechnology and in medical equipment.

Command Medical Products, an Ormond Beach, Fla., manufacturer of disposable medical tubing, needed a new low-cost manufacturing platform to accommodate its growth in business.

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

A facility built in Newport, Wales, in the late 1990s to house a major semiconductor manufacturing operation is finally getting an occupant.

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. .

Korea’s economy is exhibiting encouraging signs as 2009 draws to a close. FDI announcements for the first nine months reached US$8 billion, up 8 percent from 2008.